Tenax coach optimistic

MUTARE-BASED Premier Soccer League side Tenax FC head coach Shadreck

“Father” Mugurasave says his team want to gauge themselves by winning as soon as the league resumes.

The Prison and Correctional Service side is one of the four newly-promoted Premier Soccer league sides together with Cranborne Bullets, Bulawayo City and Whawha.

“We are going to take all games seriously and we will gauge ourselves by winning despite the fact that there will be no relegation pressure,” he said.

Competitive football in the country is set to return next month with a mini-league which will see no team relegated at the end.

Meanwhile, this will be Mugurasave’s second stint in the PSL as he once led the now defunct Dongo Sawmill.

“At Dongo we just lacked experienced players, most of the players had never played in the topflight league except for the 2008 soccer star of the year Evans ‘Morocco’ Chikwaikwai, “he said.

Mugurasave, however, believes it is a different case with his current squad at Tenax which he said it is balanced in terms of experience.

“This Tenax team is very balanced because half of the players have played Premier Soccer league football before,” said Mugurasave.

Some of Tenax players who played in the league before include former Highlanders and Masvingo United striker Takunda Mapara, ex-Chicken Inn and Dynamos player Panashe Mutasa, a trio of Malvern Dumbura, Beaven Chirere and Joseph Jambo who once had a stint with Buffaloes as well as the 2019 Eastern Region Division 1 soccer star of the year Farai Mugumwa who was with Flame Lilly