Rollers in �no hurry� to replace �Ronaldo�
Kabelo Boranabi | Wednesday March 8, 2017 15:31
Ronaldo ended her six-year stay at the Mma Masire-based club, saying she could not continue to work as a ‘volunteer’.
Nkutlwisang is reportedly owed around P65,000 and could not continue working without a salary, hence her decision to quit this year.
Speaking to Mmegi Sport yesterday, the club’s public relations officer, Bafana Pheto said the club has not yet put an advert for a head coach position due to the current situation in the women’s football setting.
“The league has been stopped. However, the team’s assistant coaches have been with the team and we were assessing some of the them. But as of now, we are not in a hurry to hire a coach,” Pheto said. He refuted reports that the club had advertised for a CAF A licence holder coach.
“(The) women’s league does not have a sponsor. Our female’s team also does not have a sponsor. We just play for leisure, there is nothing we are getting back. So for those reasons we cannot hire a full time coach for the team as we do not have the money to pay their salaries,” he said.
Rollers have won the league back to back, and were on a course to defend the title as they are sitting at the summit of the log with 13 points from five games.
The league was halted indefinitely late last year as the teams bemoaned lack of funds. With four months of no action in the league, the Botswana Football Association (BFA) had announced that the league would not start anytime soon.
They said it is in the BFA’s interest that they start at women’s football being played at all the 17 regions first, before a national league could be formed. The women’s league has been without a sponsor since public transport giants, AT&T Monnakgotla pulled out in 2012.