AFP, Johannesburg :
Juan Carlos Garrido is closing in on becoming the first coach to win the CAF Confederation Cup with two clubs as his Raja Casablanca prepare for Sunday’s first leg of the final.
The Spaniard’s Moroccan side-host the first leg of the final against V Club of the Democratic Republic of Congo with the return match seven days later.
The Casablanca club are slight favourites to win a sixth African title despite drawing 0-0 at home and losing 2-0 away to the Kinshasa outfit in the group stage.
Valencia-born Garrido, 49, guided Al Ahly of Egypt to success in the second-tier CAF club competition – the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League – four years ago.
He also won the 2014 Egyptian Super Cup for the Cairo Red Devils, but was sacked the following year and worked with a Saudi Arabian club before being hired by Raja last year.
