Karate defends decision to hire foreign coach

BOKA president, Sensei Tshepho Bathai told Mmegi Sport yesterday that they took a decision to de-localise the position of head coach. He said local coaches have limitations and Botswana has not been able to win or go past the first round at the World Cup. He said there is always infighting on allegations of styles and favouritism.

“Local coaches are engaged full time elsewhere and those engagements comes first.  Us at BOKA, we want a full time head coach. You find that a coach would attend training the last week before a tournament having missed other sessions,” he said.