AfricaPress-Tanzania: YANGA’s management has said that their side’s pursuit of Vodacom Premier League’s top honour is still on, despite posting less impressive results in recent fixtures.
In the first round of the tournament, Yanga started well as they played a total of 19 league fixtures without losing a single game.
They then opted to change the team’s technical bench, parting ways with head coach Zlatko Krmpotic.
Krmpotic catapulted Yanga to victory in four matches and draw in one, which came in the clash against Tanzania Prisons at Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
Krmpotic was dismissed for what was described as poor results.
He was replaced by Cedric Kaze who led Yanga to 18 league matches, winning 10 games, posting draw in seven outings and loss in one.
The outcome led to his dismissal on March 7 due to what was described as the team’s poor performance.
In Yanga’s fixture under Kaze’s tutelage, the squad posted 1-1 draw with Polisi Tanzania, prompting Yanga bosses to fire him.
They are placed first in the domestic top flight with 50 points, they though are under a lot of pressure from their age-old rivals Simba, who are placed second with 46 points.
Mshindo Msolla, Yanga’s Chairman, said: ”The target of winning the Vodacom Premier League is stagnant, failing to get results in previous matches does not mean that we will fail to achieve our goals.”
He disclosed: “We decided to offload the technical bench in order to solve the problem of poor results so the work is still going on and the goals are not changing.”
Vivier Bahati, Azam FC’s assistant coach, noted the team have also not given up on winning the Vodacom Premier League title.
Azam FC, currently under tutelage of head coach, George Lwandamina, started the season impressively under Romanian Arstica Cioaba.
Their momentum was thereafter slowed down by Mtibwa Sugar, as the latter won 1-0 against the Dar es salaam squad, leading to Cioaba’s sacking.
They are placed third place with 44 points having played a total of 24 matches.
“We still have a match and the League is going on so there is still a chance of winning the title,” he said.
