Kitwe United spokesperson Dorothy Sampa has revealed the municipality-sponsored outfit plans to maintain coach Fred ‘Schemer’ Siame ahead of the 2012 Division One North campaign.
United missed out on winning promotion after finishing 9th on the log with 44 points.
They have failed to bounce back to the Super Division since it was demoted in 2006.
Sampa said the Garden Park side is satisfied with the performance of Siame who joined the Buchi Boys last year following the indefinite suspension of his predecessor Lawrence Mweemba on disciplinary grounds.
“We don’t have plans of making changes to our technical bench,” she said.
“We want to give an opportunity to our coaches to perform well this season,” Sampa added.
She said United’s failure to win promotion cannot be blamed on coaches but on the financial challenges the team faced last season.
“It will be unfair to judge the performance of our coaches because of financial problems we faced last season. There were delays in paying allowances to players,” Sampa said.
Ba Dorothy, hope you are fine. I pity you and Kitwe United. Its supposed to be a big team but funds, and there is very little you can do about it. Players also have families and pay rentals you expect them to be paid not just playing on empty stomachs. I wish you well and all the best.
Lame excuse!! Not winning promotion blamed on not paying players on time. Other teams have the same problems but have since won promotion.
That’s the problem when we bring people that are not sports oriented. The club was doing good under Lawrence Mweemba. He came from Power Dynamos to help a club that had and still have players walking from Luangwa, Chamboli to KPF for training. Mweemba tried to give you an insight in sports management, but what with your butt tucked under the desk, chomping on meatpies, you thought he was wrong. Get real sister and do the right thing. You women, you want men power and when we give it to you, you seek revenge. You are a disappointment to the good women I have served. Don’t insult our intelligence for giving you a platform. Go ask the players, not your tribesmate coaches how they feel about their former coach.
I am trying to understand what point no.3 is trying to put across,but i am lost in his thick dark bush of shallow contribution and low caliber line on thought on kit-we united and its challenges.i hope he has an in-sight of the huge problems i.e demotivated coaching staff and players who don’t receive any token for the intense running they endure on empty tummies and unpaid debts.These guys are more occupied with problems from their homes,so if sampa acknowledges the difficulty of achieving results for kit-we united as a club don’t dispute because these are the realities going on at this much loved buchi club.