Times Of Swaziland: Basil Petersen  takes over at ‘Bull’

Basil Petersen  takes over at ‘Bull’
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BY CHRIS DLAMINI on 24/08/2013 03:12:00


MBABANE – As capital city giants Mbabane Highlanders continue their revamp
under new dire-ctorship, the club has since agreed to terms with South African
coach Basil Pete-rsen to lead them back into the elite league.
It has been established through close sources to the team’s authorities that
Petersen was the club’s new coach and was due to be officially unveiled
yesterday. However, the unveiling was not to be as the club then suspended its
activities to allow its players to exercise their right to vote in the national
Primary Elections today.
“Petersen was here last week to meet the directors and indications are that he
is taking over the club and could also be bringing some players for trial from
South Africa,” said the source.
Meanwhile, the club’s PRO David Litchfield was diplomatic when asked about the
matter saying they will be unveiling their coach soon once the directors  give
them that directive.
“There’s no denying that the Chairman and his Board of Directors have got a
coach now but we’ll unveil him together with our Puma replicas,” he said.
He said chances that it was Petersen were high but preferred to leave it at that
saying they will unveil their man soon as he was expected to start work by
Tuesday at least. Petersen was just recently with Manzini Wanderers as Kenny
Ndlazi’s assistant but it was a brief spell as he could not take what he was
offered as salary.
At Highlanders he also replaces sacked interim Malian coach Alou Badara. Badara
was relieved of his duties on Tuesday afternoon by the directors after they felt
they were not comfortable with him. Getting a comment pro-ved futile but it was
learnt that he had been advised by his new employers and he would speak to the
media on his unveiling.