Send Pasuwa to Europe for training

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It can be argued but the truth is that Kalisto Pasuwa is the most successful football coach in the 36-year-old history of Zimbabwean football.

It can be argued but the truth is that Kalisto Pasuwa is the most successful football coach in the 36-year-old history of Zimbabwean football.

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Qualification to the Africa Cup of Nations finals, four consecutive league titles and a berth at the 2017 Africa Nations Championships, can best be described as perfection.

Surely, King Khali has earned his reputation and credit should also go to the then Zifa president Cuthbert Dube, who appointed him as both Warriors and Under-23 coach.

What Pasuwa is going to do will be judged against what he has already done. And on the domestic scene, Pasuwa no longer has anything more to offer.

King Khali is now heading to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals where such African football powerhouses like Egypt, Ghana, Senegal, Morocco, have already qualified with chances being that World Cup qualifiers Tunisia and the Ivory Coast will also join them.

However, the Africa Cup of Nations finals are a different ball game altogether. Pasuwa is still raw for this level of competition and with seven months to go before the tournament roars into life, the National Football Association of Zimbabwe (Nafaz) should send Pasuwa to Europe for extra training.

That Zimbabwe picked up only one point and scored only one goal in three games in an easy 2016 Africa Nations Championships group that also included Zambia, Uganda, and Mali, was a warning on the shortcomings of the Warriors’ coach when he faces tough situations.

Not to mention that a strong Zimbabwean side boasting of players like Tatenda Mukuruva, Danny Phiri, Hardlife Zvirekwi and Elisha Muroyiwa failed to go beyond the first round of a small tournament like the Cosafa Castle Cup.

Some say Pasuwa anopererwa (he runs out of ideas).

Word doing rounds is that the Nafaz is busy running around trying to identify a technical adviser to accompany Pasuwa to the Nations Cup finals in Gabon.

No, that is not the solution. Pasuwa worked hard to ensure that the Warriors made the journey to the finals and he has to finish the job he started instead of assigning someone who would then take the credit when the Warriors get out of the group stages.

The idea is for the Nafaz to right now send King Khali to Europe for a training attachment. He does not necessarily have to be attached to big European clubs like Manchester United, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and Bayern Munich.

What he needs is an attachment at a second division side in a recognised European league, be it in the Netherlands, Belgium, England, France, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Denmark, Croatia or Turkey.

There are Zimbabwe’s internationally exposed player agents like Gibson Mahachi who have been dealing with European clubs for a long time. The likes of Mahachi can be of great value in linking the football leadership to clubs in Europe who could assist.

Or, the Nafaz might try to negotiate with Costa Nhamoinesu’s Sparta Prague for that attachment. Sparta Prague might be more than willing to take Pasuwa on board considering the service Nhamoinesu has given to the club.

If European club attachment for the national team coach fails, then the money earmarked for this so-called technical adviser can be used to allow Pasuwa to attend as many high-level training courses in Europe.

The Nations Cup finals might look far away but in football time, the finals are just around the corner. Send Pasuwa to Europe and see what happens in Gabon. Spare sponsors of the chaos

Whenever Dynamos play, there is chaos at the PSL privilege card entry gate as hundreds of DeMbare fans push and shove their way to the front, claiming their names are on the list submitted to the man controlling the gate.

The supporters have no respect for the queue to the extent that they scrummage through in their sixes and sevens and in the process, some sponsors and major football stakeholders have lost their valuables.

Can Dynamos find another entry gate for their free-watching football fans instead of the one that is used by sponsors?

Ironically, the Dynamos leadership is always complaining that they are not making anything from gate takings yet they are the ones who also approve for hundreds if not thousands of their fans to be accorded free entry.

In Europe, a football fan is one who pays to enjoy the entertainment offered by his club while at Dynamos, a fan is one who enters the stadium for free, enjoys the entertainment provided by his club and goes home to tell his family about it.

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