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Kelvin Kaindu

Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
DYNAMOS Football Club were yesterday coy on reports that former Highlanders coach Kelvin Kaindu is odds on favourite to replace history-making want away coach Callisto Pasuwa.Marabhundu, as Pasuwa is known in some circles, has since announced his departure from the Glamour Boys after guiding them to four consecutive League titles, a first for a local coach.

Talk in the football corridors is that DeMbare are ready to snatch the Zambian from Triangle as he is seen as a moderate coach who will be able to balance Dynamos’ unsteady political landscape.

However, Kenny Mubaiwa, the first Dynamos chairman to win four titles in a row, lightly brushed aside the Kaindu talk and said they would actually be flighting an advert for a coaching vacancy at the club.

“We’re putting up adverts, the first one actually coming out tomorrow (today) with the closing date set for December 15 and then after that we will be able to know when the new coach begins work,” said Mubaiwa.

The Dynamos chairman said his executive would recommend assistants to their new coach although the final decision would lie with the new man.

Pasuwa and the rest of the technical team’s contracts expire at the end of this month.

Meanwhile, the Mbada Diamonds Cup will not be played this year after the Premier Soccer League revealed that they had run out of time to deliver a tournament consistent with their event management systems and guaranteeing their sponsors the mileage they deserve. The tournament would have seen Dynamos, ZPC Kariba, Caps United and FC Platinum, the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League top four teams in the just ended season, fighting for the trophy.

It is now likely to be the season opener next year, according to the league president Twine Phiri.

“We’ve been looking at the calendar and the possible dates left to run a proper end of season Mbada Diamonds Cup without really making a rush job for the whole exercise and without jeopardising the whole management system we have at the PSL,” Phiri told our Harare Bureau.

“It’s a very tight programme, in terms of the dates that are left, and we realised that if we try to push the tournament through, we would be squeezing things a little bit and when you do a rushed job, chances are  that you will make some very big mistakes, in terms of organising the matches”.

Phiri also cited the African Union Sports Council Region 5 Under-20 Youth Games that begin in Bulawayo tomorrow as the reason for the eventual postponement of the tournament.