The Sunday Mail
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BEING shunted from the position of head coach to that of technical director looks and sounds like a promotion of Lloyd Mutasa but it’s not.
It has all the hallmarks of constructive dismissal.
Instead of toasting his supposed elevation, Mutasa is reported to be shedding tears — as he normally does when it hurts — and alleging backstabbing.
Greetings good people, my apologies for last weekend’s no show.
I missed thee just as much as you missed me.
As I came back from my sabbatical to the Far East, I arrived home to news that Mutasa had been booted upstairs and Biggie “Nzou” Zuze had been appointed interim Dynamos coach.
The news was not shocking at all considering DeMbare’s horrific start to the season and Mutasa’s strained relationship with Zuze.
Yours Truly was not surprised either to hear that goalkeepers’ coach Zondai Nyaungwa had been fired.
If there is a guy who led Mutasa down the garden path, it can only be this guy called Zondie.
He is said to have used his proximity to Mutasa to settle personal scores with players such as Denver Mukamba and Lincoln Zvasiya, to mention but two.
Next time you hear Denver talking about some people whispering lies into Mutasa’s ears just think of the man who used to be DeMbare’s goalkeepers’ coach until early last week.
Mutasa and Nyaungwa had forged an alliance that sidelined Zuze, who had to be content with setting up cones and shouting tough luck when players got their lines wrong.
Take it from me, Nzou had very little technical input and never had Mutasa’s trust.
When he left for Warriors duty, Mutasa would leave the training programme with Zondie, yet Nzou was the second in command.
Observers rightly questioned why Mutasa had recommended that Zuze be brought in as his assistant when he did not believe in the man.
My input was and still is that Zuze turned out to be more than what Mutasa had bargained for.
The “fired” Dynamos coach has a history of moving around with bald headed assistants who would always say yes to everything he said and would resign when he got fired.
At FC Platinum, Mutasa was fired and Ralph Kawondera, who had been earmarked to be interim coach, walked away arguing that he could not backstab his friend.
But unlike the yes men that Mutasa was used to working with, Zuze often disagreed with his boss and in doing so made himself the target of Nyaungwa’s machinations.
Mutasa made his bed, he has to lie in it — crying or not crying.
He went against his bosses and sent Mukamba packing, he changed what used to work in terms of off the field rituals and believed Nyaungwa’s gossip ahead of Zuze’s technical advice.
Mutasa is a good guy but I am not crying with him on this one, he was hoisted by his own petard.
How Dynamos will do business with Zuze in charge is open to speculation but what is clear is that the man the DeMbare bosses badly want is Kallisto Pasuwa.
The DeMbare fans always want him back even though they often accused Pasuwa of playing boring football.
However, it looks like the return of Pasuwa won’t happen until Keni Mubaiwa is removed from the position of club president and Solomon Sanyamandwe takes over.
Pasuwa is still bitter about the way he was hounded out of the Dynamos job despite delivering four Premiership titles on the bounce.
He says DeMbare chased him away like a drunkard and that is deep coming from a Madzibaba.
Good luck to Nzou, tough luck to Mutasa!
Asante Sana.
Sir exits the scene!
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