Zifa to appoint national team coach before year end
ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa has said the mother body will appoint a substantive coach for the senior men’s national team before the end of the year.
Speaking at the Zifa Southern Region flag raising event in Bulawayo yesterday, Chiyangwa said Zifa was hunting for a substantive coach to take charge of all national team assignments.
He could not be drawn into revealing whether they were eyeing a local or foreign coach for the Warriors’ top post.
“We are going to appoint a substantive coach for the national team before the end of the year, one coach not several coaches. I will never tell you whether he will a local coach or foreign coach because that will distract me,” said Chiyangwa.
The Warriors are presently under the caretaker care of Norman Mapeza, assisted by Ngezi Platinum’s Tonderai Ndiraya and Mandla Mpofu of Bulawayo City.
The trio got Zimbabwe to a flying start in the 2019 Total Afcon qualifiers by dispatching Liberia 3-0 at the National Sports Stadium.
Zifa appointed a different technical team for the Cosafa Castle Cup led by Sunday Chidzambwa, assisted by Bongani Mafu and Dynamos coach Lloyd Mutasa.
Chidzambwa and his assistants, however, couldn’t replicate the same form that saw them lifting the Cosafa Castle Cup when the Warriors were dumped from the Chan qualifiers by Namibia.
The Warriors will resume the Afcon qualifiers in March 2018 with an away fixture to Congo Brazzaville before playing host to the Democratic of Congo in September. — @innocentskizoe