Jinja based Bidco FC has parted ways with long serving Coach Richard Makumbi following a spell of poor results that has seen the side still fight for survival with less than four fixtures to the end of the league. Makumbi who coached the club on it’s way to the top flight division has under his reign as Head Coach played 27 games, Won and lost 10 in the Bell Uganda Super League and are 12th on the 16 team log with 31 points and can easily drop to the big league if Hoima-Busia (21 points with six games to go) and Police FC (28 points with five fixtures to play) win their fixtures and Bidco falters.
The two parties allege to have parted ways in a mutual consent that saw Makumbi ask to step aside for the good of the club. However inside sources claim he has been sacked in what they referred to as a polite way of telling him to step aside.
This brings the number of Coaches that have lost their jobs in the super league this season to six. These include Villa’s Zivojnov and his assistant Mukatabara Paul, KCC FC’s Matia Lule, Police FC’s Angelo Lonyensi, Victor FC’s George Nsimbe (now at Fire Masters) and Fire Masters’ Leo Adra. Interestingly, none of those were directly sacked with Zivo and Villa part in the same said mutual consent, Matia Lule merely suspended, Lonyensi left to work as a technical assistant to Timbe, Adra appointed as technical director at Fire Masters while Nsimbe simply resigned.
