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Grace Chingoma Senior Sports Reporter
FORMER Warriors coach Rahman Gumbo is back in the Botswana Premier League following his appointment as Sua Flamingoes head coach this morning.

Flamingoes were declared First Division North League champions after last year’s decision by Botswana Football Association to end the game abruptly because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The club had tried without success for the past three years to gain promotion. The Sowa Town-based club celebrates its 30th anniversary in style with a Premiership dance.

Although they had vowed in previous interviews to keep their division one coach in the Premiership, it now appears the club has decided to part ways with Rapelang “Razor” Tsatsilebe, and replace him with the Zimbabwean gaffer, who previously won the Botswana league title with Township Rollers.

Gumbo’s last local top-flight job was in the domestic Castle Lager Premiership with demoted TelOne in 2019.

He had been roped in by the Gweru side just four months before the season ended in a quest to save their maiden Premiership campaign. However, the team was relegated.

The 57-year-old gaffer has had stints with Highlanders, CAPS United, FC Platinum, Chicken Inn, and other clubs in South Africa, Botswana, and Malawi. He holds the distinction of having won league titles in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Malawi.