GU defend embattled Zapata

Lifeline: GU officials addressing the media PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Lifeline: GU officials addressing the media PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

Gaborone United (GU) chairperson, Rapula Okaile has defended the team’s head coach, Rodolfo Zapata, despite calls for his sacking.

The Argentine who arrived at The Reds early last year is yet to win the majority of the team’s fans as his ‘attractive’ style of play has not yet translated into results. 

“Zapata would stay as long as I am in office. I affirm my confidence in him. If we want to revolutionalise football, we need coaches like him.  Football must be attractive or else we all would stay home and ask for results. He is protected as long as I am here,” Okaile told a press gathering yesterday in Gaborone.

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