The Young Warriors were hit left, right, and centre, and the Warriors humiliated in 2026 World Cup qualifiers but that is now history and it cannot be changed.
We can repeatedly say Zifa blundered in this and that and that Michael Nees should have done this and that but the fact remains that we lost and we need to move on with time.
We all saw where we went wrong with the Young Warriors and we also saw what is wrong with our Warriors and we hope Zifa also saw the wrongs and should try to correct them.
Yes, the Zifa board was elected into office to lead Zimbabwean football but they should know that they alone are not the solution to the Zimbabwean football problem but all of us.
So far, the Zifa board has been drifting like a moving head of a goods train but without trailers trying to do everything on their own and the results have been a disaster.
They should admit that they need help and that help can only come in the form of vibrant sub committees to run different portfolios rather than the jokes they initially set up.
Zimbabwe has a lot of capable football brains which if brought together can lift the game back to its good old days and Zifa should come up with the right people rather than whom I know in their sub-committees.
For those who can care to remember. The list of those who contested for Zifa positions in that January 25 election clearly showed the vast football brains that lie around and a formidable team that Zifa can build from them and others who chose not to contest.
Surely by now, a Zifa technical committee should have been in place to assess the performance of Michael Nees and Thulani Sibanda instead of entrusting the assignment to laymen like Nqobile Magwizi, Tafadzwa Benza, Kudzai Kadzombe, or Brighton Ushendibaba who are best suited for other assignments.
By now, the technical committee would have made its decision on whether we still need Nees or not and what is the best way foward for the Warriors under the circumstances.
Even the appointment of the Young Warriors' coaches could have been done better had there been a knowledgeable technical committee to decide on who is best suited for which age group, the Under 17, Under 20 and the Under 23.
Surely, there are football people within the Zifa board but the level of the task is a bit bigger than them and they need a lot of help to overcome the challenges facing the Zimbabwean game.
Sanyatwe should fulfil promise
Sport minister Anselem Sanyatwe has promised Zimbabweans that the National Sports Stadium would be ready by the end of the year - which is only three months away.
We take his word but knowing pretty well that former minister Kirsty Coventry made promises but failed in more than five years to renovate just a national sports stadium.
We are talking here of not constructing a new stadium but just putting touches here and there in the stadium as recommended by Fifa and CAF.
We hope that Sanyatwe will be up to his word -- or else there won't be any difference between him and those who took five years to erect just a perimeter fence halfway through the stadium.
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