Loga under scrutiny
Zimbabw e’s Warriors are out of the 2021 Africa Nations Championships (Chan) in what could turn out to be the team’s worst showing since 2009. Defeat against the Eagles of Mali — this evening — will see Zdravko Logarusic’s class of 2021 rank as Zimbabwe’s worst representatives at Chan — worse than Kalisto Pasuwa’s group of 2017 that came back home with a single point.
The Warriors fans do not even have to pull out their calculators to work out the permutations of the possibility of their team progressing as even a win won't be enough to catch up with Mali or Cameroon who are already on four points.
Obituary writers are putting up the final touches to their script, but it would be dishonest to connect the Warriors' failure to Covid-19 because all the teams at Chan 2021 were affected by the pandemic.
The Warriors are rock-bottom of Group A with no point from two matches. Cameroon and Mali are on four points while Burkina Faso have three points following their 3-1 win over Zimbabwe.
Although some of us did not see it, there are many who believe that the position the Warriors are in at Chan has long been coming.
They are of the opinion that the Warriors did not stand a chance at the competition as they last kicked a ball in a competitive match on November 16, 2019, when the curtain came down on the Premier Soccer League.
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The fact remains that we invited Logarusic here at a fee to help us and help us he should. He has to be told in no uncertain terms that he does not belong here should Zimbabwe fail to succeed in the assignments standing in his way.
He has Afcon 2021 and World Cup 2022 to make things right and redeem the pride that was lost at Chan.