TANZANIA'S TOP ATHLETE TO NATIONAL ATHLETICS TEAM IN BRUNEI

CONGRATULATIONS   BROTHER  NYAMBUI  !!!

 ONE BIG  UP  FOR  YOU  !!!

 

BY CORRESPONDENT:  Source:  The Guardian, Tanzania.

23rd June 2015

Former AT secretary general Suleiman Nyambui. (File photo)

 Retired Athletics Tanzania (AT) Secretary General Suleiman Nyambui boards a flight to Brunei where he is to take his new role as head coach of the country’s national athletics team.

Nyambui said he will be in Brunei for six months where he will work under the Ministry of Culture and Sport in training middle and long distance runners.

He said the agreement with the Asian country is that he works for six month on probation with option to sign a two year contract extension upon agreement.

  “I will be in Brunei for six month working on probation I will be directly working with the Brunei Amateur Athletics Association (BAAA) but I have been employed by that country’s ministry of culture and sports. At the end of my six month tenure  I’m expecting to sign a two-year contract to work as the national athletics head coach”, he said .

 Nyambui said he is taking his new post as a challenge to his athletics coaching career . 

“It’s a challenge but I am not afraid of breaking new sports frontiers, you know  the trend in Africa is that of exporting the finest athletes  to Europe, Asia and other places   and, in return, welcoming to the continent every Jim and Jack masquerading as coaches, I believe I can reverse such a trend” he said.

The 63-year old is   the holder of several athletics coaching certificates and his highest qualification is  the chief coach [recognised by International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF)] and previously has coached in the United States of America (USA) and  Bahrain.

Nyambui, who is also a sports administration lecturer, has been conducting athletics coaching clinics in many teaching colleges in the country.

“I want to take to Asia a new coaching dimension, full of rhythm and technique. I believe Brunei athletics will learn  a lot from me“, he said.

However, Nyambui said he is not leaving the country a happy man as the authorities have failed to develop athletics in the country.

He said his aim was to fully work for the development of athletics at home and not going oversees to work. He said even when he returns home after the end of his contract he will not make use of his experience as the country lacks athletics development plans. 

“I ‘m going to Brunei to work there, but I wanted to use my expertise to develop the sport in the country, the problem is how can I work when the authorities seem not to care on athletics development, we do not have a high performance centre,  we  even  lack a centre of excellence, it is a pity”, bemoaned Nyambui.   

Nyambui  is a former track athlete  who specialised in various long-distance disciplines.  He won the bronze medal at the 1978 All-Africa Games, then a  silver medal in 5,000 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and finished first at three consecutive marathons between 1987 and 1988.  He holds multiple indoor national records of Tanzania in athletics.