FORMER Warriors skipper Danny “Deco” Phiri has signed a one year contract with his former club Chicken Inn and plans to hang his boots after that.
Phiri (35), who last year featured for Bulawayo Chiefs, said he will be playing for the GameCocks next year and then venture into coaching.
“I am going to Chicken Inn next year. I signed a one-year contract with Bulawayo Chiefs last year and it is expiring on December 31,” he said.
“I have signed with Chicken Inn for next season and then I call it a day. Maybe I can teach these young players one or two things before I retire and then go into coaching. Next year is my last year of playing professional football.”
Phiri is one of the players that helped financially-troubled Chiefs survive relegation this year.
Phiri, under coach Joey Antipas, won the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League with Chicken Inn on 2015, the year he was crowned Soccer Star of the Year.
Deco began his career in the topflight league with the now-defunct Bantu Rovers, where he played in 2009 and 2010 before crossing the floor to Chicken Inn in 2011.
He played and captained Chicken Inn up to 2015 and attracted the interest South African top side Golden Arrows in 2016, but his career there was affected by injuries until he was offloaded in 2021.
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After that, Phiri who was jobless for some time, tried his luck briefly in Tanzania before he returned home to join Bulawayo Chiefs.
He was part of the Warriors between 2014 and 2019.
Sources say Chicken Inn want to groom him into a coach and give him a job like what they did to Guide Goddard, one of their developmental side gaffers.
Former skipper Moses Jackson was offered to coach juniors at the GameCocks after he was offloaded but chose to continue playing.
