Former AFC Leopards head coach Zapata Rodolfo has been appointed as the Fiji U20 national team head coach.The 56-year-old Argentine moves to Fiji, a country not known for football prowess after quitting his role as the Director of Football development at the US Soccer Development Academy.##NAJAVA_MECA_6945082##The former goalkeeper, who was in charge of Kenyan giants AFC Leopards for a short stint in 2018 says he is in Fiji, a nation known for rugby prowess to make football big business.“To see the quality of the players that we have I was positive and that’s the reason why I told the president Yes, because of the quality of players, of course, it’s not going to be an easy competition, we need to work in a progressive way to not confuse our players but we need to have clear objectives.” he is quoted by FBC news.Fiji football president Rajesh Patel has full confidence in Zapata ahead of the U20 World Cup that starts in May. The tournament will be hosted by Indonesia. He has promised good preparations for the team.“There will be camps in Mexico in Asia before they go to Indonesia for the world cup so that is the biggest announcement that we have given and we’ve given the players the best so that we cannot be in numbers in the world cup but be a dominant team that we can compete with anyone else.”Zapata has previously coached Sunshine Stars of Nigeria, Mpumalanga Black Aces of South Africa, Gaborone and Township Rollers of Botswana, and Rwanda’s Mukura Victory.Apollo thankful as he exits Tusker
