The Sunday Mail
UNACCEPTABLE!
How can a competition of such importance as the Bob Super Cup be run in such a shambolic fashion?
Yes, Highlanders and Caps United will meet in a play-off to decide on who squares up to Dynamos in next weekend’s final but if the truth is to be told, this is not how a competition that is meant to celebrate President Mugabe’s birthday should be run.
It should be smoother and bigger!
Everyone, including the chairman of the organising committee Stan Kasukuwere, knew that 21 February was coming and one would have expected systems to have been put in place to ensure a smooth, professional staging of the competition.
VaShagare will not be drawn into the politics because that is not my game.
Football is.
Where were Kasukuwere and his team, which includes Charles Mabika, before last week when they announced – much to the surprise of everyone – that the Bob Super Cup was on this year?
Highlanders and Caps United had already made plans for this weekend with Bosso set to visit Beitbridge and Makepekepe embarking on a Malawian sojourn.
Clearly both teams had not been told that the Super Cup was on and that stinks from Kasukuwere, Mabika and everyone else who is part of the organising committee.
Surely this is not how football should be run.
Surely this is not how a football competition meant to honour the President of Zimbabwe should be organised.
Kasukuwere and his team owe Gushungo and the nation at large an apology.
It’s unacceptable Cde Kasukuwere.
You know it.
Please don’t subcontract your confusion to the rest of us.
Amid the administrative bungling, the issue of Dynamos having a highway into the final has rightly raised eye brows in various circles.
Yes, Dynamos are the defending champions but that does not give them VIP status.
DeMbare should have been asked to fight for their place in the final with a semi-final date against any other team in the Premier Soccer League.
Bosso chief executive Ndumiso Gumede was on point when he questioned Dynamos’ more equal than others approach.
“For starters, there are no tournament rules, we are not told how we qualified and why ourselves and Caps United have been reduced to second rate by engaging in a play-off and Dynamos waiting in the final.
“Charles Mabika and Stan Kasukuwere phoned yesterday and we asked them to put everything in writing,” Gumede fumed midweek.
Away from the boardroom, it will be interesting to see how Bosso will shape up against a Caps United side that is on a high after last weekend’s Zim-Sino Cup penalty victory over Dynamos.
New Bosso coach Bongani Mafu has gone about business discretely but his pre-match comments after his side were held to a goalless draw by Bulawayo City in a friendly recently showed the confidence he has in his unit.
“One of these days someone will get smacked for real,” the Bosso coach was quoted as saying after the match.
Now, is today one of “these days”?
And is Caps United “the someone”?
These are interesting times!
And Chunga goes to
school, finally
Moses “Bambo” Chunga has for years flatly refused to take up coaching courses locally, foolishly arguing that there is nothing knew he would be taught.
That myopic thinking probably explains why he made shocking decisions at crucial stages in his career and why he always finds himself stepping out of line.
However, it was refreshing to read that Chunga was among several coaches who attended a coaching course at Zifa Village a fortnight ago.
Now Bambo can claim to be the greatest by producing winners’ medals and coaching certificates too.
No matter how good you are you need to be certified.
Thankfully Chunga realised it.
Better late than never!
VaShagare exits the scene!
VaShagare is the founder of DeMbare DotComs and can be contacted on that Facebook page as well as the email [email protected].
