The national amateur boxing side coach Pimentel Hurtado has named 19 new faces in his 20-man provisional squad for the All-Africa Games planned for Maputo, Mozambique in September. The Cuban coach, now in his second year in charge of the team, has retained only one boxer from the team that competed in the 2010 Common wealth Games in New Delhi, India. For the first time in more than 40 years, Tanzania’s envoys to the Commonwealth Games failed to win a single medal.
It was the country’s most unsatisfactory outing in the Games since boxer Titus Simba won the country's first silver in 1970. Unveiling the team yesterday, Hurtado named Suleiman Kidunda as the only pugilist old guard in his squad. Kidunda is said to have attracted a panel of coaches named by the Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) to assess the pugilists after some impressive performance during the National Championship in Dar es Salaam newly.
Hurtado said indiscipline was a major factor behind the failure of most boxers who represented the country in the 2010 Games to earn a recall to the team."It’s nearly one and a half years since I was unveiled as the national boxing team coach. I have been with the team since September 2009. “A few days before heading to India for the Common wealth Games, I noted that some of my boxers were unmanageable. Thus the BFT I and agreed on picking only the boxers who are disciplined for the All Africa Games and other international competitions,” he disclosed.
It was the country’s most unsatisfactory outing in the Games since boxer Titus Simba won the country's first silver in 1970. Unveiling the team yesterday, Hurtado named Suleiman Kidunda as the only pugilist old guard in his squad. Kidunda is said to have attracted a panel of coaches named by the Boxing Federation of Tanzania (BFT) to assess the pugilists after some impressive performance during the National Championship in Dar es Salaam newly.
Hurtado said indiscipline was a major factor behind the failure of most boxers who represented the country in the 2010 Games to earn a recall to the team."It’s nearly one and a half years since I was unveiled as the national boxing team coach. I have been with the team since September 2009. “A few days before heading to India for the Common wealth Games, I noted that some of my boxers were unmanageable. Thus the BFT I and agreed on picking only the boxers who are disciplined for the All Africa Games and other international competitions,” he disclosed.
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