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Bucs goalkeeper Wayne Sandilands is one of the players who have been a consistent feature in the Pirates squad since the arrival of Zinnbauer.

There’s been a revolution in the coaching space in Germany, the old generation of coaches relied more on a rigid style of play which was just concentrated on the basics and playing percentage football.

For a big team which hasn’t won some silverware in almost six years now, there was a concern that in Zinnbauer they seem to have attracted a coach who didn’t have good credential when it comes to lifting trophies judging by his track record in recent years in Switzerland and Germany.

Josef Zinnbauer was introduced in a very unusual manner by Orlando Pirates last month.

Zinnbauer also comes to a Pirates team that has been following a certain game model in the past two years under Sredojevic and Mokwena and he agrees that to change that to how he wants them to play its not going to be easy.

Despite playing good football and scoring goals under Mokwena, Pirates was undone by the sloppy and sometimes disorganized defending, this is something that was not prevalent under former head coach Milutin “Micho” Sredojevic as his team was difficult to break down and even came close to lifting the Absa Premiership title last season.

Prior to Zinnbauer’s arrival at Pirates, the club was conceding a lot of goals and their defensive organization was suspect.

Its been a fairly good start for Orlando Pirates under their new coach Josef Zinnbauer since his arrival last month to replace caretaker coach Rhulani Mokwena.

Baroka FC first choice goalkeeper Elvis Chipezeze says his side needed the win over local rivals Polokwane City over the weekend.

Polokwane City head coach Clinton Larsen is not worried about his side’s position on the Absa Premiership table.

The former Chilli Boyz, SuperSport United, Cape Town City and Orlando Pirates coach has re-iterated that he has space for only one more player

Maritzburg United coach Eric Tinkler is not concerned about rumours that his first goalkeeper Richard Ofori might leave the team and join Mamelodi Sundowns during this January transfer window.

Ajax Cape Town have the opportunity to move four points clear at the top of the Glad Africa Championship, if they are able to beat 14th-placed TS Sporting in a mid-week game to be played at the Cape Town Stadium on Wednesday.

Chiefs has scored a total of 36 goals in 18 matches this season, 14 of those goals came from headers with 19 goals from set-pieces.

It’s been a demanding a demanding first two weeks for Chiefs in 2020, losing for the first time in nine league matches to Supersport United, the institution turning 50 last Tuesday and bouncing back with a 3-0 win over Highlands Park the following day.

It was the first loss for City in 2020 and they struggled against the aerial boys in this game.

Kaizer Chiefs head coach Ernst Middendorp has conceded their 3-0 win over Cape Town City yesterday was not pretty but it’s the three points that matters.

Lukhubeni also says that their league position will not get them carried away and they are still earning their place in the professional environment.

Having only been promoted at the start of this season, Western Cape side Steenberg United have surprised many in the Glad Africa Championship, and currently find themselves third on the table.

Fencing is a minor sport but there are many junior and senior provincial and national champions that are organized on a yearly basis.

Wood competed in the Individual Sabre and Team Sabre with Jyoti Chetty, Adele du Plooy and Shelley Gosher.

Former South African female Fencer Elvira Wood has explained the Olympic qualifying process for the SA athletes at this year’s Tokyo Olympics in Japan.

The SAFA National Women’s League match between Golden Ladies and First Touch Academy was cancelled on Saturday due to the absence of paramedics.

SuperSport coach, Kaitano Tembo hailed his team’s ability to create and convert goal scoring opportunities as they beat AmaZulu by two goals to nil at the Kings Park Stadium yesterday.

Highlands Park suffered a heavy home loss to Stellenbosch going down 4-1 in front of their vociferous fans at Makhulong Stadium in Tembisa on Saturday afternoon.