Tshosane pleads for time to recuperate
Mqondisi Dube | Wednesday October 9, 2013 22:15
Tshosane pleaded to be given time to recuperate after the operation. The Botswana Football Association (BFA) dismissed the coach while he was on sick leave.
BFA Chief Executive Officer Keith Masters delivered the letter, which bore the bad news.
Tshosane said he was not in a position to comment yesterday as he recuperates from the knee operation. But the expectation is that once fully recovered, the coach will take the BFA to court over his exit package. BFA is reportedly prepared to pay the equivalent of only three months salary, while Tshosane had expected to be paid out the remainder of his contract.
Already, one local coach, formerly with the Under-23 side, has been linked with the vacant Zebras job.
Meanwhile, the Zebras will not use the FIFA dates this week with a match only possible during the next break in November.
BFA president Tebogo Sebego said the team had a friendly match on Independence Day and it will not be prudent to have another match.
'We have other obligations. It must be understood that it is expensive to organise matches. However, we might have a match during the FIFA date in November,' Sebego said. Former coach, Tshosane had said that he would have liked to use the FIFA date.
'Of course we would have wanted to play. We have to utilise the date since most teams are available. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing (matches) until December,' Tshosane said, moments before he was dismissed as Zebras coach.
The national team's last assignment was a 1-0 victory over Burkina Faso in a friendly match played at the National Stadium on Independence Day.
The Zebras were booted out of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers early last month, meaning their next competitive matches will be the 2015 AFCON qualifiers. CAF is still to come up with dates for the qualifiers.