{"id":3801,"date":"2025-09-22T10:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swazidailynews.com\/?p=3801"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:40:16","slug":"from-serbia-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/3801\/national\/from-serbia-with-love\/","title":{"rendered":"From Serbia with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Sibusiso Masilela<\/p>\n<p>MTN Premier League returnees Malanti Chiefs have upped the game ahead of the new season kick-off.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 8bet Bet Trade Fair cup quarterfinalists have appointed Serbian mentor Sreten Pavlovic as their new head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The European coach will lead the Northern Hhohho outfit on a one-season contract.<\/p>\n<p>He was unveiled by the club Chairman, Dumisani Gumedze, and director Victor Rodrigues at Molly&#8217;s Restaurant, Checkers, Mbabane on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Gumede said they are happy to enlist the services of the Serbian coach.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3806\" style=\"width: 1020px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3806\" src=\"https:\/\/genesisekucalenimedia.com\/edn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Malanti-Chiefs-directors-Dumisani-Gumede-and-Victor-Rodrigues-welcoming-their-new-Seerbian-head-coach-Sreten-Pavlovic-on-Sunday-at-Mollys-restuarant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1020\" height=\"459\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malanti Chiefs directors Dumisani Gumede and Victor Rodrigues welcoming their new Seerbian head coach Sreten Pavlovic on Sunday at Mollys restuarant.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to secure the services of Sreten Pavlovic as our new head coach. We are confident that he will take the team to greater including a respectable league finish.<\/p>\n<p>We commend the good work done by the assistant coaches during the Trade Fair cup where reached the quarterfinals,\u201d he said.<br \/>Pavlovic said he was happy to join the local side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a great pleasure to join such an ambitious team like Malanti Chiefs. I will work with the entire family to take the team to greater heights and thank the team for welcoming me warmly into the Malanti family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old coach is a CAF Licence A holder.<\/p>\n<p><strong><div class=\"_df_book df-lite\" id=\"3777\"  data-title=\"\" wpoptions=\"true\" thumbtype=\"\" ><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other members of the technical bench include Vusizwe Mahalalela and Sibusiso \u2018Spoko\u2019 Dlamini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sibusiso Masilela MTN Premier League returnees Malanti Chiefs have upped the game ahead of the new season&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,37,43],"tags":[46,79,70,71,73,58,53,80,68],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-national","category-soccer","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-betway-premiership","tag-caf","tag-champions-league","tag-eswatini","tag-national","tag-soccer","tag-south-africa","tag-sport","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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