Sam Ssimbwa confirmed on Thursday he has quit as coach of Ugandan record champions SC Villa after falling out with the club just five months into the job.
The 48-year-old is said to have relinquished his job following a spate of disagreements with the club hierarchy over wide-ranging issues.
A section of fans is also said to disapprove of his disciplinarian actions and were agitated when Ssimbwa suspended the club captain and darling Stephen Bengo early this year on disciplinary grounds.
Preliminary reports from the club suggest Ssimbwa, who replaced sacked Stephen Bogere last August, has been dismissed for insubordination.
But the 2012 league winning coach with Express dismissed the talk, saying he has resigned his position as SC Villa coach because of what he calls disrespect by the club.
“I lost my daughter this week and no one from the club appeared yet I had informed them,” Ssimbwa told a local publication, the Daily Monitor, on Thursday.
“They later summoned me to the disciplinary committee and I told them I would not appear. That was the last time I had heard from them.”
Phone calls to two Villa officials on media matters were futile by press time as their known phone contacts went unanswered. The club are expected to issue a statement on the matter in the next 24 hours.
Ssimbwa won two Kakungulu Cup titles with Mbale Heroes (1999) and Express FC (2007) before capping a league gong with the Red Eagles in 2012 – their sixth in history.
He was also Cranes assistant coach to Mohammed Abbas, László Csaba and later to Bobby Williamson.
He holds a coaching licence from Germany and has also had managing stints at KCC, Health, Military Police, Simba (Uganda) and Kenya Premier League side Sofapaka.
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