Newly-appointed FCB Nyasa Big Bullets head coach Peter ‘Mjojo’ Mponda says he is targeting a clean sweep in the 2025 season.
He said this yesterday in Blantyre where he was unveiled as the club’s new mentor after signing a three-year performance-based contract.
Mponda has replaced Zimbabwean coach Kalisto Pasuwa after helping Lilongwe-based giants Silver Strikers to end an 11-year TNM Super League title drought in the 2024 season.
Looking relaxed and spotting a black suit, black shirt and black pair of shoes, the former Bullets assistant coach and ex-captain said: “There is always too much pressure to win games at Bullets, but I will contain it. I really want to win everything.”
But Bullets’ acting chief executive officer Albert Chigoga said although they have given Mponda a performance-based contract, they do not want to put him under pressure.
“We are excited to have our man back on board. His contract is performance-based but we will not reveal the targets we want him to meet,” he said.
“However, it is every coach’s desire to win trophies and Bullets are a team that demand victories. We will give the coach maximum support.”
Chigoga said they have given the former Flames captain a three-year deal so that he can have ample time to fine-tune his squad and turn it into a formidable force.
When asked if issues to do with Mponda’s contract at Silver have been cleared, especially reports that there was a $15 000 (about K26.2 million) compensation exit clause in his contract with the Bankers, Chigoga said they were not obliged to comment.
“We have recruited the coach upon realising that he resigned from his former employer. It is not for us to comment on anything about the coach’s contract with his former club,” he said.
On his part, Mponda said he is not moved because he amicably ironed out everything relating to his contract with Silver.
In the 2024 season, Bullets only lifted the Airtel Top 8 trophy after winning a quadruple in the previous season.
Mponda has returned to Bullets after resigning as an assistant coach in 2023 to join South African second-tier club Black Leopards as an assistant coach before being promoted to head coach.
In 2024, he returned home and signed a contract with Silver as head coach.
During his previous three-year stint with Bullets as assistant coach, they won the TNM Super League title three times on the trot.
