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Mr Erol Akbay (right) and his employer, Mr Masala Mulaudzi  (president of TTM).

TTM coach Erol aims high

 

After parting ways with their Serbian-born coach, Mr Momcilo Medic, last month, Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila (TTM) appointed Mr Erol Akbay as the team’s head coach last week.

Although he has spent only a week with the team so far, Akbay has much to tell about Vhadau Vha Damani. He revealed that he had entered into a three-month contract with the Tshakhuma side.

He further stated that the contract had an option for extension. According to him, he will sit down with the management of the club at the end of the contract and take stock. He also stated that his performance with Vhadau in the next three months would inform the management about his future with TTM.

When asked about his plans for the team, Akbay said that his aim was to collect at least 20 points in the nine league matches they will play during his contract period. He stated that he watched from the grandstand as TTM played to a goalless draw with Richards Bay FC at the Thohoyandou Stadium two weeks ago.

Akbay said that what he had observed in that game was that TTM played entertaining football and that the strikers needed some guidance when it came to finishing. He also stated that he was impressed with the team’s fighting spirit in that game, although they could not find the net. He said, however, that he was worried about the quality of the players, although TTM had a squad of 26 players.

According to him, the quality players he had could only make up a good starting team, saying it would be difficult for him to find suitable substitutes when the need arose, due to the lack of quality players in the camp.

The 53-year-old mentor further stated that he was impressed by the team’s performance in their friendly game against Black Leopards at the Ladanna grounds in Polokwane last Friday. The game ended in a 1-1 draw.

Akbay will sit on the team’s technical bench for the first time in a league game against Steenberg United FC at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town tomorrow afternoon. He will be assisted by the club’s former marketing manager, Mr Lucky “King Mchichwa” Nelukau. Nelukau worked as TTM’s assistant coach to Mr Sello Chokoe until January this year.

 

Sport - Date: 18 October 2019

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Frank Mavhungu

Frank is a Human Resources Manager at the Department of Public Works in Limpopo. He is the longest serving correspondent of the Mirror, having joined us at the end of 1990.  He mainly writes sports reports and resides at Tsianda Village. In 2004, Frank won the National Castle League Award, an award for the best reporter in the SAB league in South Africa.

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