After making history by guiding the club to a first league title in twenty years,Serbian Head Coach Dusan Stojanovic has left Ugandan giants SC Villa after just a year in charge.
A press release by the club’s CEO William Nkemba,dated 27th July reads;
“Sports Club Villa has,today,mutually,parted ways with its Head Coach Dusan Stojanovic.
Dusan leaves with our sincerest appreciation for steering the club through a very tough season to it’s 17th league championship.The club wishes him well in his next endeavours and thanks him for his service.
Coach Morley Byekwaso immediately takes over as the interim head coach”
This development was somewhat unexpected,as the club seemed to have hit gold with the Serbian tactician,who made history in his only season in charge.He drew widespread plaudits for not only bringing home a record extending seventeenth league title for the Jogoos after a much lamented twenty years draught,but for also doing it playing a dynamic and entertaining style of football.
His burgeoning reputation even led to rumours that moneybags Lawrence Mulindwa,whose often futile searches for foreign head coaches are well publicised,was determined to lure him to Vipers SC,as part of his quest to turn the Kitende based side into a continental force.But those rumours were shortlived and Villa fans breathed a collective sigh of relief when the Venoms hired Dusan’s compatriot Nikola Kavazovic instead,leading to a feeling that Dusan would get the chance to build a dynasty at Uganda’s most successful club.
Time has instead proved this as not to be,as the club has announced a mutual parting of ways between the pair.Although the team made no mention of what led to the untimely split,veteran sports journalist Clive Kyazze has come out to reveal that the tactician fell out with his superiors over a number of issues centered around a desire to cut costs.Dusan and Villa reportedly differed on whether to use road or air transport to and from Dar Es Salaam,with the club favouring travelling by bus,while the coach insisted on flying,culminating in the two travelling back separately after the coach fell ill.
The club is understood to have regarded this as indiscipline prompting them to give the former Micho protege his marching orders.It has been a tumulutous off season for the Jogoos,who also suspended last season’s talismanic forward Patrick Kakande over what was only referred to as indiscipline,although the youngster went on to feature in Tanzania.
