Tanzania giants Young Africans [Yanga SC] are set to announce their new coach on Saturday who will replace Mohamed Nasreddine Nabi.
Yanga recently bid farewell to Nabi, who guided them to two successive trebles when his contract ended at the end of the season.
The club last week announced they were not renewing the contract of the Tunisian while he was seemingly headed for the DStv Premiership.
SN24 can reveal that the club has since found a replacement for Nabi and could announce him at their annual general meeting on Saturday.
WHO WILL REPLACE NABI AT YANGA?
“We’re preparing for our annual general meeting and will be announcing our new coach at the AGM,” a Yanga SC source told SN24.
Former Mamelodi Sundowns coach Miguel Ángel Gamondi is leading the race to replace Nabi.
The Argentinian has been in talks with the club’s management with indications that he is keen on the job.
The well-travelled coach’s sojourn on the continent started after the turn of the millennium when he worked as an assistant at Libyan side Al Ahly under Oscar Fullone. In 2001, Fullone took him to the Burkina Faso national team before stints at Asec Mimosas, Wydad Casablanca, Esperance and Etoile du Sahel.
At Sundowns, the Argentine won the 2005/06 season as a co-coach with Neil Tovey. That season, Sundowns edged out both Pirates and Chiefs in the title race with 57 points. Bucs finished second, three points shy of the champions, with Amakhosi in third on 50 points. This was their first title since the switch from an 18-team league to a 16-team league.
Thereafter, he guided the now-defunct Platinum Stars into the final 16 of the 2008 CAF Confederation Cup on their first dance on the continent.
After South Africa, he managed Algeria’s CR Belouizdad and USM Alger, Wydad and Ittihad Tanger of Morocco.
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YANGA SC HAS BEEN A DOMINANT FORCE
Gamondi piped a number of coaches that applied for the job. He has a huge task to take the Yanga SC project to the next level.
Yanga has been a dominant force in Tanzania football in the last two years after waking from a slumber. Before the last two seasons, their bitter rivals Simba SC won four successive titles.
At Timu ya Wananchi’s recent trophy parade, Yanga stopped at Simba’s headquarters in Dar es Salaam to show off their treble trophies.
The expectation will be for the Argentinian manager to continue the club’s stranglehold on Tanzania football.
The Jangwani giants are already refreshing their squad. The trio of Ghanaian midfielder Bernard Morrison, Congolese forward Tuisila Kisinda and Tanzanian Dickson Ambundo have already left the club.
Yanga have set out to build a stadium and they recently secured the land they need.