Exclusive: Middendorp Takes Three SA Coaches To Tanzania

Former Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs coach Ernst Middendorp has picked three South African coaches for his technical team at Tanzanian side Singida Fountain Gate FC.

The German tactician was unveiled as new head coach on Friday, just two weeks after his surprise resignation at German side SV Meppen.

However, Middendorp wasn’t out of a job for long and his next adventure takes him to the ambitious project at Singida Fountain Gate FC.

But he has surrounded himself with some familiar faces, as iDiski Times can confirm. He will take Thabo Senong as Assistant Coach, Kelvin Ndlomo will be his Biokineticist and Thembalethu Moses will be the Goalkeeper Coach.

Senong is best known as a former national U20 coach having led Amajita to the 2017 FIFA World Cup, while he also worked as a Bafana Bafana assistant to Shakes Mashaba.

After leaving SAFA he had a spell as Lesotho’s senior national coach before joining the technical team of Sekhukhune United.

In Moses, another former Sekhukhune technical team member joins Middendorp on his new journey. The former Santos goalkeeper left Babina Noko last year and previously also worked with SA’s U17 side.

Meanwhile, Ndlomo worked with Bafana Bafana before and also had a stint in Tanzania already, spending last season at Simba SC who ended second on the Tanzanian Premier league table.

The three coaches and Middendorp all signed a one-year deal in Tanzania, with the contracts being facilitated by Rasthoem Simons of 5sSports. They will fly out to Tanzania on Monday.

“The South African assistants (to Head Coach Ernst Middendorp) are another testament to the calibre of our local practitioners. I am delighted to have facilitated the deal for everyone and after having spent the week in Tanzania with coach Ernst, I’m certain that they will take the club to the next level,” said Rasthoem Simons.

Story by David Kappel (@kappilinho).