Seitz (kushoto),
mmoja wa watakaofanya kazi na Toto kuhakikisha mambo yanakwenda vizuri.
Habari njema kanda ya ziwa ni kwamba Klabu ya Toto African ya Mwanza imepata neema
baada ya kuingia makubaliano na wataalamu wa soka kutoka nchini Ujerumani.
Wataalamu hao watafanya kazi pamoja na Toto kuhakikisha inafanya vizuri na ikiwezekana kuwa klabu bora ya nne baada ya Yanga, Simba na Azam.
Toto African imefanikiwa kurejea Ligi Kuu Bara
baada ya kusota nje kwa takribani msimu mitatu.
Pamoja na hivyo tunategemea ushirikiano mkubwa
kutoka kwa Chama cha Soka Mkoa wa Mwanza na ofisini ya Mkuu wa Mkoa pia.
“Lengo ni kuifanya Toto African kuwa timu ya
Wanamwanza kwa faida ya mkoa kwa ujumla na kuachana na ushabiki wa timu za Dar
es Salaam,” alisema.
PRESS RELEASE
Toto African Sports Club will develop a new club concept with German
support –
German-Tanzanian coaching duo will lead the team through the VPL season
‘15/16
Toto African Sports Club is proud
to announce a unique partnership with German football development experts. Over
the next five years the club and its German partners want to develop a modern
concept to overcome the main problems which Tanzania’s professional football
faces for years/decades. The goal is to become the fourth big club in the
country beside Dar Es Salaam based clubs Yanga SC, Azam FC and Simba SC. In
doing so the club wants to rely on a modern concept which gets developed
according to Tanzanian needs without expecting financial support from Germany.
Instead of that Toto wants to build up on the new concept to gain the hearts of
sponsors and fans in and from Mwanza. The ideagets supported byMwanza’s Regional
commissioner, Mwanza City Council and Mwanza Football Federation.
Last year Toto Africans got
promoted from first division into Premier League under a new leadership. Still
due to several problems which the club has faced over the last decades the
leaders realized that Toto Africans can neither rely on a big fan base nor on
big sponsorship support in Mwanza. Therefore building up a successful team is a
nearly impossible challenge. To overcome that dilemma the club decided to end its
historically grown connection to Yanga and to create a new concept on its own. The
vision of Toto’sexecutiveis to change the image of the club and to end club
politicswhich have hindered the Toto’s development for many years/decades. To
achieve this goal last year’s elected executive committee got in touch with the
city’s Public relation Officer Joseph Mlinzi who also coordinates Mwanza’s
sister city relationships. The idea was to get some support through the German
sister city Wurzburg. Finally thelinkage to Germany was established through
City Mayor Stanslaus Mabula and City Director Halifa Hidda with the endorsement
of the Regional CommissionerMagessa Mulongo and Mwanza Football Federation’s
president Jackson Songora. As a result the club’s executive committee held a
first meeting with German Football development expert Juergen Seitz when he
visited Mwanza in April.
Over the last six yearsSeitz has
successfullyled several football charity projectson a voluntary basis in Mwanza
and Germany. In 2012 he led an U20 from Mwanza to Germany. The squad
sensationally stayed unbeaten against eight U20 Bundesliga teams, among them
the German youth record champion VfB Stuttgart and the current U20 champion TSG
Hoffenheim. After the journey Seitz has not been successful in convincing
leaders of the country’s leading clubs Azam FC and Simba SC about the urgent need
to change some basic principles in Tanzanian club management and football.Both
have not been ready for the fundamental change needed. According to Seitz the
five key problems of Tanzanian football are:
1.) Clubs
have no structured and sustainable club philosophybuilding up on a long-term
vision
2.) Coaches
from Europe are usually not aware of the local culture and mindset of players
3.) Football
is played too physically and similar to the old European footballfrom the 1990s
4.) Clubs
believe too much in experienced and foreign players and too less in local young
talents
5.) Club
committees are too big and leaders think too often about money and short term
success
With Toto Africans, Seitz sees
the chance to overcome these five fundamental problems of Tanzanian football.
However he is also aware that there are many difficulties to expect over the
next months/years, most of all in building up long-term trust between German
supporters and the club leadership.Toto African leadership is strongly
committed to work on this vision together with its German partnersand not to do
the failure again of believing in short-term or political goals. Seitz and his
German network will not support Toto financially, but through sending
youngtalented coaches and advisors who will support the club on a voluntary
basis each season. They will develop the new club philosophy hand-in-hand with
local leaders and coaches.In the same time the club wants to develop a new fan base
and sponsorship network in Mwanza to guarantee enough financial and emotional
support on this ambitious path. If the collaboration gets successfulthe
linkages to Germany might be deepened and extended.
Linked to the five fundamental
problems of Tanzanian football mentioned before, Toto Africans Sports Club is
committed to the following 5 principles:
1.) Toto
relies on a five-year plan to become one of the top four teams in the Tanzanian
Premier League:
a. Short-term
focus: Creating a Premier League team with a modern style of playing
b. Medium-term:
Recruiting young talents from a new talent program in Mwanza
c. Long-term:
Building a training compound and improving further infrastructures
2.) Toto
believes in a German-Tanzanian head coach duo and management collaboration to
use the best from both cultures. So both sides can learn from each other and
combine their knowledge to continuously develop the club.
a. Coaching:
Young German coaches who are open to the Tanzanian culture guarantee the latest
training standards and tactical knowledge. Experienced Tanzanian coaches know
how to work and communicate with Tanzanian playersand guarantee the right
attitude of players. Both parties work hand in hand on all matters.
b. Management:
Modern football is also a lot about modern marketing approaches. Successful
marketing concepts from European clubs are supposed get adapted to Tanzanian
needs. So they can get linked to Tanzanian passion and networks.
3.) Toto
plays modern football which reflects the latest developments in international
football.
4.) Toto
believes in young talents and reliesmostly on players from Mwanza only in the
long run.
a. Building
up on a new youth football development approach of the Mwanza Football
Federation and a German youth football charity,children in Mwanza will get
better chances to be trained from young years on according to the technical,
tactical and psychological needs of modern international football.
b. The
development of the mindset of players (individually and as a team) will be as
important as the flexibility to adapt to different tactics as a team.
5.) The
club leadership is aware of its central role in developing such a concept and
wants to be a linkage between tactical bench, administrative stuff, German
supporters and most of all sponsors and fans in Mwanza. Trust and integrity in
the leadership are the key elements to successfully establish such a new club
philosophy.
In the upcoming VPL season the
team will be coached by 29-year old German coach Martin Grelics (UEFA A-License
holder) and his experienced Tanzanian counterpart John Tegete. Nextweek the
club leadership and the German partner Jürgen Seitz will announce further
details about the cooperation in a press conference in Mwanza (exact date, time
and venue to be announced). Also the squad will be formed until end of June.
The club already talks to several players and will also hold trials in the next
weeks.
Kind regards,
Carthbert Japhet
Spoke Person Toto African Sports
Club
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