By MICHAEL MIYOBA
THE departure of coach Manfred Chabinga will not stop the club from achieving its target of finishing in the top four, Kabwe Warriors Chief Executive Officer Charles Chakatazya has said.
On Tuesday, coach Chabinga resigned as head coach two months after he was named head coach to lead the team in the CAF Confederations Cup.
The club confirmed in an interview that Chabinga informed the club of his decision to leave after Warriors 1-0 defeat to Nkana in the Super League.
Chakatazya said Warriors can achieve their target of finishing in the top four because there’s still a lot of games to play in the Super League.
“The league has just started, we have only played four games out of the 34 so his departure won’t affect our plans in any way.
“If you look at our performance last season we performed very well with the same technical bench that is there so if there will be any addition maybe it will just be a push on them to do better,” he said.
Chakatazya said that assistant coach Ian Bakala is now in charge of Warriors until the club’s executive committee meets to decide the way forward.
“Coach Bakala has been in charge of the team for the last two games. On the way forward, the executive committee has not sat yet since the news was received yesterday. They will decide on whether there will be an addition or the same technical bench led by Bakala will continue,” Chakatazya said.
Meanwhile, Kabwe Warriors is hoping that FAZ will hold coaching courses to empower coaches with CAF B and C coaching licences.
“It is our hope that before the league ends we will have a course that will push our coach to CAF B then we can find him a course in one of the neighboring countries like what Red Arrows did.
“Unfortunately our coach doesn’t have a B we would have sent him to Tanzania to acquire the CAF A license so he needs to do a B license then we can push him to go for a CAF A license,” Chakatazya said.
Kabwe Warriors were forced to sign Chabinga as head coach two months ago because Bakala who helped Warriors finish in the top four to qualify for the CAF Confederations Cup does not have the needed coaching credentials for CAF games.
