Warriors step up preparations
WITH just under a month to go before the Warriors plunge back into AFCON business, coach Sunday Chidzambwa and team manager Welly Mpandare have stepped up their bid to strengthen their squad.
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WITH just under a month to go before the Warriors plunge back into AFCON business, coach Sunday Chidzambwa and team manager Welly Mpandare have stepped up their bid to strengthen their squad.
Knowledge Musona has broken his silence over his absence from the blood-and-thunder 2013 Nations Cup qualifier against Angola with the star striker revealing that a combination of injury, and a horrible foul-up by Warriors’ team manager Nyika Chifamba, ruled him out.
There might be some three weeks before the Warriors battle the Negras Palancas for a place at the 2013 Nations Cup finals but clearly it’s the Angolans who are doing the right things for football to flourish for them to reap the benefits.
RAHMAN GUMBO has been installed as the substantive Warriors after the former FC Platinum gaffer was given the mandate to oversee Zimbabwe’s remaining 2013 African Cup of Nations and 2014 World Cup qualifying campaigns.
BULLISH Burundi flew into the country yesterday for their 2013 African Cup of Nations first round second leg clash against Zimbabwe at the National Sports Stadium, warning of another upset on Sunday.
ZIMBABWE’S Warriors have paid the price for their surprise defeat to Burundi in a 2013 African Cup of Nations qualifier with the country’s flagship team tumbling out of the top 100 on the latest Fifa Coca Cola Football rankings.
WARRIORS’ talisman, Knowledge Musona, did not fly into Bujumbura as expected yesterday with the national team management claiming that he was denied permission to board his scheduled flight without a valid visa allowing him to enter Burundi.
RAHMAN GUMBO was feted like a king at the Harare International Airport yesterday, after a successful adventure into the kingdom of Swaziland, and the coach will be hoping for similar scenes when he returns with the Warriors from Burundi next week.
RAHMAN GUMBO bounced back as Warriors’ coach, on an interim basis, exactly eight years after being pushed from the same post as chaos engulfed the national team after an embarrassing 0-3 home defeat at the hands of Nigeria.
ZIFA are expected to name an interim coach, to take charge of the Warriors’ 2013 Nations Cup qualifier against Burundi, either today or tomorrow, with all pointers leading to German gaffer Dieter Klaus-Pagels.