adminRay Bande Senior Reporter
SAKUBVA junior soccer coaching icon, Timothy ‘Sicho’ Masachi, who was once part of the Buffaloes Football Club’s technical department as assistant coach and later as head coach, has spurned a chance to join the newly promoted Mutare City Rovers FC.
Apparently, this is not the first time that Masachi has played hide and seek with prospective employers after the diminutive gaffer turned down an offer to join Dongo Sawmills when the Nyanga outfit sought his services in an effort to evade relegation last season.
It appears his well known unwavering allegiance to fellow soccer coach, James Muhala has seen Masachi failing to grow up in his coaching career and become his own man.
Mutare City Rovers’ spokesperson, Clayton Masekesa, took to social media forum, Facebook highlighting his team’s fruitless efforts to lure Masachi to City Rovers.
“Following your enquiries regarding Timothy ‘Sicho’ Masachi and Isaac “Zeka” Nengomasha in as far as Mutare City Rovers is concerned. Let me put the record straight as follows.
“Zeka is still with us and he is the team manager. On Masachi, the truth of the matter is that when we appointed Kennedy “Bokande” Kachara as head coach, we asked him to choose the assistants he would be comfortable to work with.
“Then Masachi was the first one to be approached by Bokande. He was Bokande’s first choice. On so many times we called him to have meetings with him, but Sicho never responded positively. He kept on promising to come and at the end he started referring us to his manager, James Muhala.
“We later realised that Sicho wanted to be the head coach. So, as an executive we felt that Bokande should remain as the head coach considering that he had led the team to glory and that he had operated under very difficult circumstances in Division One.
“He was a very loyal coach and to replace him with Sicho was something which we saw as unfair and it was our prerogative to let Bokande finish off the project he had started three years ago. So on his second option Bokande settled for Ephraim Masakure and Peter Masibera as goalkeepers’ coach,” wrote Masekesa.
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