Ray of hope for British Brigade

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final group game next March.

Liberia are second with seven points followed by DRC with six points.

Congo are at the bottom of the table with five points.

Gore also said that they are working on engaging Santos Football Club from Brazil for exchange programmes targeting local coaches.

“One other thing we are working on, we are working on partnerships with Santos Football Club in Brazil to do a coaching exchange programme. They have already advised us that they will be willing to do an exchange programme where either their coaches come in here to Zimbabwe or our coaches go to Brazil.

“We have communicated that to ZIFA, so it’s only a matter of when it can be arranged to take place,” said Gore.

Team Zimbabwe UK are also considering going broad by roping in other sport codes to their programme such as boxing and rugby.

“I am due to meet the Secretary for Sport with view to expand, Team Zimbabwe UK is not only limited to football, we need to expand it to other sport, boxing, we have already started scouting our boxers. We also want to expand it to rugby. “So the plan is to go through the Ministry of Sport now to engage and expand this programme so that it can also cover other sports and not limited to football. And we have already started collecting the database of our boxers who will want to represent the country at the African Games.

“And we are also looking at athletes that are professional that can actually participate for Zimbabwe,” said Gore.