Former AmaZulu assistant coach Ayanda Dlamini has been appointed as head coach of Umvoti in the ABC Motsepe League Kwa-Zulu Natal.
The 38-year-old retired striker had served as an assistant coach at AmaZulu to then-head coach Romain Folz. Dlamini then took over the reins as caretaker for Usuthu's last six matches after Folz was moved into a technical advisory role.
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Dlamini had an underwhelming spell as interim head coach, collecting just five points from AmaZulu's last five games of the season, prompting club chairman Sandile Zungu to look for solutions elsewhere.
"His mandate was clear, forget relegation, AmaZulu will not be relegated. I think at the time AmaZulu had 28 points and we said you've got 18 points [to contest] over the next six games to take AmaZulu into the top eight," Zungu said in June.
"The objective that we set for him (Dlamini), we agreed with him, was not unreasonable under the circumstances. He didn't accomplish that. To me, It's either you succeed or don't succeed. Nothing personal,"
"I want to invest in Ayanda to earn his badges, to become a world-class coach, he's not ready to be the coach of AmaZulu football club."
Dlamini will now look to cut his teeth at the helm of Umvoti who finished seventh in Stream B of the provincial ABC Motsepe League. Meanwhile, AmaZulu have signed Spaniard Pablo Franco Martin as head coach.
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