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Mighty Wanderers Football Club board of directors are expected will meet today to decide on the future of members of the club’s technical panel.
Apart from interim coach Alex Ngwira, who was engaged up to the end of the season, the rest of the technical panel members’ contracts expired yesterday.
The members of the technical panel are technical director (TD) Eddington Ng’onamo, assistant coaches Bob Mpinganjira, Albert Mpinganjira and Joseph Kamwendo, team manager Foster Namwela as well as goalkeeper coach Simplex Nthala.
Wanderers spokesperson Ernest Maganga confirmed the development in an interview yesterday, stating that one of the issues the board will discuss is the contracts of the members of the technical panel.
He said: “All the members of the technical panel, including some players signed contracts that expired on August 31. The board will have to make a decision on their future as well.”
Maganga said the football committee headed by Limbani Magomero will present a report on the performance of each member of the technical panel.
He said: “It will be up to the board then to make a decision based on the report.”
However, an inside source said there are strong indications some of the members will be retained.
The source said: “The general consensus is that we do not have to disturb the technical panel, more especially of the senior team, considering that they have done well and turned around the fortunes of the team. The best thing is to keep them up to the end of the season.”
On his part, Ngwira said he was comfortable working with the team he found, but said there is need to beef up the backroom staff.
He said: “So far, so good. Things have been unfolding well. But in the near future, we definitely need to have additions.”
Wanderers restructured the team’s technical panel at the beginning of the season by engaging Ng’onamo as TD and redeploying Bob to the reserve side while Kamwendo was elevated to assistant coach.
However, the Nomads’ poor start to the 2022 season forced the club to demote Kamwendo to the reserve side and brought in Ngwira as head coach.
Kamwendo protested the demotion and threatened to sue the Nomads, arguing that it was unfair to target him only from the whole technical panel, based on poor performance of the team.
Meanwhile, Ngwira is unbeaten since taking over as interim head coach last month.
He led the team to the FDH Bank Cup semi-final after beating Dedza Dynamos 3-0 in the last 16 in his debut and Kamuzu Barracks 4-1 in the quarter-finals to set up a Blantyre derby against rivals Nyasa Big Bullets in the semis.
The derby will be Ngwira’s second after he led the Nomads to a historic comeback to hold Bullets 3-3 in a pulsating derby in TNM Super League second round.
In a related development, the Nomads are also restructuring their secretariat by employing a chief executive officer and chief accountant. The Nomads announced the vacancy yesterday, calling for interested individuals to apply as the club steps up its commercialisation drive, according to Maganga.
