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Ricky Zililo, Sports Reporter
MUCH travelled Rahman Gumbo was one of the three shortlisted candidates who attended yesterday’s interviews for the Triangle FC coaching job at the Lowveld side yesterday.The other two coaches who were interviewed for the Triangle hot-seat, which fell vacant last week when the club decided against extending Gishon Ntini’s contract are ex-FC Platinum and How Mine’s Philani Mabhena and Biggie Zuze formerly with relegated Monomotapa.
In a telephone interview yesterday afternoon, Triangle FC chairman Lovemore Matikinyidze confirmed they had interviewed the trio.
“We finished interviewing the last candidate just after 2PM and they were all good. We will be announcing the name of the successful person soon,” said Matikinyidze.
He could not be drawn into commenting on the alleged fallout with Ntini who joined Triangle in June 2011 and finished on third position in the Eastern Region Division One before winning the championship and the ticket into the Premiership the following year.
Ntini managed a top eight finish in his first season in the Premiership.
Whoever comes in will be hard pressed to do better than Ntini and assemble a formidable side that will challenge for the Premiership as well as the Sup8r Knockout titles.
Gumbo, arguably the most successful Zimbabwean coach has won the league championships in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Botswana spent the better part of last season at Zifa Southern Region Division One Soccer League club Plumtree Chiefs as their technical director before Thulani “Thuts” Sibanda took over towards the end of the year to lead the team to the title.
He boasts of an impressive curriculum vitae having coached the national team and other Zimbabwean clubs in Zimbabwe that is Highlanders, Buymore, Caps United, Motor Action and FC Platinum.
Mabhena has felt the heat in the topflight and once assisted Philani “Beefy” Ncube at Chicken Inn having worked at Zvishavane’s FC Platinum.
Mabhena has also worked under Madinda Ndlovu, the late Benjamin Moyo and former national team coach Gumbo.
At one time he was FC Platinum’s acting coach following the untimely death of Moyo in 2011 before the Mimosa Mine sponsored club hired Gumbo.
He joined How Mine at the beginning of last year and was relieved of his duties after 18 matches even though he was within his contractual target, which demanded 30 points from 20 games.
When Mabhena left How Mine, he had managed to amass 24 points from 18 matches. Biggie Zuze has been with Monomotapa for some time but lack of resources saw the club being relegated from the Premiership at the end of last season. He has also been linked with a possible move to Dynamos as assistant coach to Callisto Pasuwa.
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