Madinda hopes to stay in Botswana

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HARARE: Sacked Township Rollers' coach, Madinda Ndlovu has said he may stay in Botswana to look for another coaching job. The Zimbabwean was fired this week after Rollers lost 2-0 to BMC in a Mascom Premier League match in Lobatse on Saturday. He left for Zimbabwe after the match and was sacked in absentia. Speaking in Harare after the sacking, Ndlovu, a former Zimbabwe international winger, said he had no hard feelings against Rollers. He acknowledged that the loss to BMC was the last blow to his continued stay at the club, which gave him his first coaching job outside his country last year.

Ndlovu returned to Gaborone on Monday where he held talks with his former employers. He watched his former club Highlanders put up a gallant show at the weekend when they held highly-fancied defending champions, Al Ahly of Egypt in an African Champions League game on Sunday at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo. "I still have a valid work permit which has about three years to run. I also have a month's notice at Rollers and although I am no longer a Rollers' coach, other opportunities can arise there (in Botswana) or back home.  If nothing materialises in Botswana, I will return home and see what next step to take," he said.

Ndlovu arrived at Township Rollers last year with a lot of promise.  Before the end of his playing career, he was one of Zimbabwe and Highlanders' best players. In the early 1990s, he played alongside his younger brothers Adam and Peter at both club and national team levels. Peter went on to play in the English Premiership. Currently he is at South African giants, Mamelodi Sundowns. Madinda played in Germany and before his move to Gaborone, he had coached his former club Highlanders and AmaZulu in the domestic top flight. He also handled national youth teams. He has never won the league championship as a coach. His coaching career started at Highlanders in 1993 as an understudy to Roy Barreto. He joined Rollers last year when the club was still riding after winning a Premier League and Coca-Cola Cup double straight from First Division football.

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