The Sunday Mail
The process to determine Ian Gorowa’s fate as Warriors coach is set to start this week when a Zifa sub-committee convenes to review the national team’s disastrous exit from the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. The Zifa High Performance Technical Committee is expected to meet on Wednesday to review the Warriors’ shameful exit from the qualifiers, where they faltered at a first hurdle erected by the lowly-ranked Tanzania.
The national team lost 2-3 on aggregate after they went down 0-1 in Dar es Salaam in the first leg, before being held to a disappointing 2-2 in the reverse encounter at the National Sports Stadium.
Gorowa is now expected to present his report to the football association by tomorrow.
Chairperson of the committee John Phiri confirmed the long-awaited meeting will now take place.
“All the members of the committee have confirmed their attendance, so hopefully nothing will stop us from convening the meeting.
“I am sure Gorowa’s issue will top the agenda,” he said.
The committee, which will also carry an audit of the entire technical structures, is expected to pass its recommendations to the Zifa board, which will then decide on the fate of the Warriors’ technical team.
Newly appointed Zifa technical director Maxwell Takaendesa Jongwe is also part of the committee which also includes former Warriors coaches Misheck Chidzambwa and Gibson Homela, former top flight league coach Cosmas “Tsano” Zulu, former national team defender Charles “Raw Meat” Sibanda, CAF referees’ instructor Wilfred Mukuna and junior soccer coach Bekhi Nyoni. The meeting should have been held two weeks ago but was delayed because Zifa president Cuthbert Dube, his deputy Omega Sibanda and chief executive officer Jonathan Mashingaidze were in Brazil for a pre-World Cup Fifa conference.
Zifa chief executive officer Mashingaidze revealed that Gorowa’s report will not only be confined to the doomed Afcon mission.
“Gorowa will submit a report on Monday (tomorrow) based not only on the just-ended Afcon qualifiers but the Chan tournament, the qualifiers preceding the tournament and the friendly matches played since last year.
“The same approach is going to be made on the Mighty Warriors, so Rose Mugadza should furnish us with a report of the Africa Women’s Championship campaign and the friendly matches they played,” Mashingaidze said.
The Zifa head of secretariat also hinted that the association was keen to take a thorough scrutiny of all the junior national teams whose technical departments are not complete.
“A review of all the national teams that is the Under-23, Under-20, and Under-17 will be done as we need to look at their set-up since the departure of individuals like Peter Ndlovu.
“As we look at our structures we are even going as far as the Under-15 because this is where issues of age cheating begin.
“We have the Youth Olympic Games and we have to look at our set-up,” he said.
