Golola reveals four-point plan to revive Vipers on third return
Prepared. Golola has spent the last three days polishing Vipers attacking line for tomorrow’s game against Uganda Cup and Fufa Big League champions Proline at StarTimes Stadium. PHOTO BY ISMAIL KEZAALA.
What you need to know:
- Having inherited a team with a reported divided dressing room, with new faces and reeling low on player morale, Golola who favours simplicity and man management promises to turn around the team in a few months.
It seems as though Edward Golola will always be around and ready to answer Vipers’ call whenever they are in a coaching crisis.
Asked yesterday why club President Lawrence Mulindwa always turns to him while at crossroads, he simply says “because I deliver success”.
Upon his confirmation as the man in charge of Vipers for the third time alongside auxiliary Richard Wasswa, Golola rolled out his grand plan to resuscitate Vipers, a sleeping giant with abundant investment.
“I got the backing of ‘Master’ Eddie Butindo (club technical director) because he was my coach at Lubiri SSS and Miracle FC.
He and many other football stakeholders told the boss (Mulindwa) that for Vipers to play beautifully again and win, I have to be back to lead this project,” he told Daily Monitor yesterday.
According to Golola, what hurts Vipers administrators most is that league and Cecafa champions KCCA are reaping from a vivacious youth project that they ‘started first’.
Golola has a proud record to protect. In each of the two reigns he has coached Vipers, they have yielded silverware (two league titles) whereas his impressive trophy-ladden spell with St Mary’s SS Kitende, the club feeder team is unmatched.
“Mulindwa tasked me with something challenging but easy to do. Go back to the 2010 and 2015 template of bringing through young players and make them stars. Bring back that beautiful passing football. And win trophies, with the technical team and players I have, that will be achieved,” he added.
As he plans for his first test, tomorrow’s dicey game against Uganda Cup and Fufa Big League champions Proline at StarTimes Stadium, Golola says he has spent the last three days polishing his attacking line which has been the cardinal letdown under the previous foreign coaches Nam Ouma, Javier Martinez and Miguel Da Costa.
Having inherited a team with a reported divided dressing room, with new faces and reeling low on player morale, Golola who favours simplicity and man management promises to turn around the team in a few months.
“It doesn’t need the boss to emphasize to me that we should fight for the titles, I always want to win and we are going to start by trying to lift the Super Cup tourney.”
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Proline vs Vipers, 4pm , Tuesday
Star Times Stadium, Lugogo.
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