Africa-Press – Tanzania. YOUNG Africans said the reason they no longer go for hideout outside Dar es Salaam prior to traditional derby encounters is the presence of good training facilities at their Avic Town camp in Kigamboni.
Previously, whenever the country’s football giants;Yanga and Simba were meeting, the two teams had a tendency of momentarily moving away from Dar es Salaam to either Zanzibar or other places and return a few days before the clash. But, now, it is a history since neither of the two teams leave the city to seek for extra preparations before going head to head and this has prevailed for sometime.
“In the past, what used to force us to go outside Dar es Salaam was lack of a conducive atmosphere where players could relax and fully concentrate on the big game coming ahead. “You know that a match involving these two sides always put the country on the standstill that is why players and technical bench members are supposed to have ample preparations before heading to the battlefield. “As such, with the best training facilities available at our new camping site Avic Town, there is no need for the team to go elsewhere and everything is done within the camp,” said the club’s Vice Chairman of Registration Committee Hersi Said.
He added that currently, Avic Town is the best place for a big club like Yanga and according to him, there is no high class club camping site in East and Central Africa like the one they have in Kigamboni.
“There is every training facility like a good pitch, good houses for the players to live with quality kitchen set-up, swimming pool, gym and many other vital things as such, no need to go to other places for further drills ahead of epic derby assignments,” he said.
He also said they now want to invest a lot in the team’s technical bench in order to generate good results saying a good bench gives positive results.
“We still remember the words said by former president Jakaya Kikwete during the recently held Annual General Meeting when he reiterated that we must invest a lot in the technical bench and not the technical committee. “Getting such encouraging words from the former president is a big challenge to us and I can assure you that we will work hard to improve our technical panel,” said him.
With two matches to go before the season ends, Yanga continue to cling on the second place of the league table with 70 points from 32 matches and have since cemented their plan to finish the campaign as runners up.
Their closest challengers Azam are third on the log with 64 points after 32 outings meaning that if they win their remaining two duels, they will complete the contest with 70 points in the bag.