Pasculli accepts job
ARGENTINE born tactician Pablo Pedro Pasculli has accepted a one-year deal to take charge of the Cranes team.
By Fred Kaweesi
ARGENTINE born tactician Pablo Pedro Pasculli has accepted a one-year deal to take charge of the Cranes team.
The 1986 World Cup winner, who beat two of his closest challengers for the highly sought coaching job, jets into the country at the end of this month. He is expected to discuss a better deal that will see him through the 2006 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifying campaign.
FUFA’s assistant general secretary Zubair Galiwango, who also dismissed reports that the Argentine had turned down the offer, disclosed that the Argentine faxed the federation suggesting that he personally prefered negotiating his own deal rather than using Italian agent Albrieux Giacomo.
“Pasculli will be here later this month to handle the Cranes team. Reports that he had turned down the offer are not founded. He proposed his wish and that will be negotiated in his presence before handling the Cranes team,†he said.
Pasculli beat Togolese Tchcanile Bonna and Slovenia’s Vosajh Scheich to the top job according to the submissions from the federation’s technical committee chairman John Baptist Semanobe.
Semanobe pointed out that his committee had masterminded a strategy that would lure the Argentinean for the offer.
“We decided to stand by him (Pasculli) because of the credentials he possessed above the other two who had qualified for the offer.
“The reasons that were raised by Giacomo were not strong enough and for what we know his demands will be revised,†said Semanobe.
Semanobe said standing by Pasculli manifests the overwhelming faith the federation holds in the Argentine. Cranes’ 2006 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifying campaign starts with a preliminary round tie against Mauritius on October 13.
The Cranes move into camp on Monday under the guidance of assistant Cranes Coach Leo Adraa.
ARGENTINE born tactician Pablo Pedro Pasculli has accepted a one-year deal to take charge of the Cranes team.
The 1986 World Cup winner, who beat two of his closest challengers for the highly sought coaching job, jets into the country at the end of this month. He is expected to discuss a better deal that will see him through the 2006 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifying campaign.
FUFA’s assistant general secretary Zubair Galiwango, who also dismissed reports that the Argentine had turned down the offer, disclosed that the Argentine faxed the federation suggesting that he personally prefered negotiating his own deal rather than using Italian agent Albrieux Giacomo.
“Pasculli will be here later this month to handle the Cranes team. Reports that he had turned down the offer are not founded. He proposed his wish and that will be negotiated in his presence before handling the Cranes team,†he said.
Pasculli beat Togolese Tchcanile Bonna and Slovenia’s Vosajh Scheich to the top job according to the submissions from the federation’s technical committee chairman John Baptist Semanobe.
Semanobe pointed out that his committee had masterminded a strategy that would lure the Argentinean for the offer.
“We decided to stand by him (Pasculli) because of the credentials he possessed above the other two who had qualified for the offer.
“The reasons that were raised by Giacomo were not strong enough and for what we know his demands will be revised,†said Semanobe.
Semanobe said standing by Pasculli manifests the overwhelming faith the federation holds in the Argentine. Cranes’ 2006 World Cup/Nations Cup qualifying campaign starts with a preliminary round tie against Mauritius on October 13.
The Cranes move into camp on Monday under the guidance of assistant Cranes Coach Leo Adraa.