DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 12 -- FORMER international and Simba Sports Club central defender, turned coach, Jamhuri Kiwhelo, better known as 'Julio' on Monday, this week, appealed to his former club not to sack their coach on account of the club's latest poor performance.

Kiwhelo who was being interviewed by city's radio stations, including the East African, argued that Simba's current problems had nothing to do with the coach, but players whom he said had not only passed their prime, but were, soccer-wise, old.

According to Kiwhelo, Simba players had reached a stage where they could no longer cope up with the present, fast game not to talk of failure to understand the new, foreign coach. Kiwhelo could not have spoken better than he did. And he ...