Mark Gleeson BBC Sport

The Swazis only had a reserve goalkeeper on the bench

Swaziland are set to fire German coach Werner Bicklehaupt after just one match in charge.

This follows the team's 3-0 defeat to the Cape Verde Islands on Sunday with just 12 players on hand after administrative bungling, flight delays and general chaos on their World Cup mission.

Swaziland had just 12 players on hand for the match in Praia, which saw them go out of the 2006 World Cup and Nations Cup qualifiers 4-1.

Another six players departed late and got stuck in Senegal en route to the former Portuguese colony.

The coach has broken team moral with his screaming Jerry Gamdeze Swaziland captain

To add to their problems, Bicklehaupt clashed with several leading players before the match and the German coach later accused some of being "big headed".

An angry Bickelhaupt said Swaziland's foreign-based internationals were "useless and fail to show respect fort the national side."

But the Swazi captain Jerry Gamdeze hit back and accused the German of being "too dictatorial".

Gamdeze claimed: "The coach has broken team moral with his screaming, shouting and condescending behaviour."

The Swazis still have yet to explain why six of their 18-man squad missed the flight to the Cape Verde Islands because of last-minute passport irregularities.

It seems more than coincidental that six players either had passports that had expired or had all the pages used up.