PHILANTHROPIST Wicknell Chivayo has offered ailing Zimbabwe soccer giants Highlanders Benjani Mwaruwari as coach and volunteered to pay his salary.
Zimbabweans woke up on Monday to the news on Facebook that the Harare businessman had met the legend alongside another former Zimbabwe player Harrington Shereni. In the discussions the topic about Highlanders had come up.
Highlanders will be without a coach as from December 31 this year following their decision not to extend coach Pieter De Jongh’s contract.He is one of the club’s benefactors and in June pledged US$1 million of which half has already been committed to the club in cash.
Highlanders chief executive officer, Denzil Mnkandla when asked for comment on Monday morning about Chivayo’s offer said: “The position of the club is that we do not have a coach at the moment as we separated with De Jongh. There is no appointment that has taken place.”
A number of names have come to the equation with club believed to be angling for Thabo Sanong and with the name of former Kaizer Chiefs striker Wedson Nyirenda having been mentioned.
