Zapata on the verge of first trophy

Thursday, January 01, 1970

Township Rollers will win a record fourth BTC Premiership title with a victory over Miscellaneous at the Lobatse Sports Complex tonight.

If Rollers triumph, it will present their coach, Rodolfo Zapata with his first ever league title. The Argentine's coaching career started in the late 1990s, but he has never won any silverware.

He spent most of his coaching as a development coach with his big break coming in 2011 when he was appointed head coach of South Africa's ABSA premiership side, Mpumalanga Black Aces (now Cape City FC), but his stay was shortlived as he was dismissed in 2012.

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