The Sunday Mail
WHILE today’s NetOne OneWallet Cup final is another opportunity for Kallisto Pasuwa to continue his fairy tale run as Dynamos coach, the same cannot be said for his under pressure counterpart Biggie Zuze.
Pasuwa can even afford to lose today and still expect the Dynamos faithful to remain confident in his pedigree, what with three consecutive league titles and a host of knock-out honours in his cabinet.
However, for Zuze a defeat is sure to spell doom for the former Monomotapa coach as the Triangle FC leadership is not happy with the team’s showing this season.
Triangle finished on position eight with 42 points last season but now with six matches remaining, they find themselves hanging perilously on position 12, with 27 points, same as 13th placed Black Rhinos who are lower by virtue of an inferior goal difference.
This poor showing has had the club leadership worrying and Zuze was last week handed a two league match ultimatum. He was tasked with collecting maximum points against Harare City and Chicken Inn.
It did go well for him last week as the Sunshine Boys held his team to a 1-all draw at Gibbo. It is against this back ground that the OneWallet Cup assumes utmost importance for Zuze as a triumph is sure to go a long way in changing sentiment. It can save his job.
Zuze, however, insists that the work his technical team has put in is not being appreciated.
“Those that are in doubt of our ability to lead this team probably do not have a clear appreciation of the job that we have done here.
“The team lost a number of players from last season and we had to start building a new team and new systems, so when you have such circumstances you tend to struggle in football.
“I would not want to say what the result of this final will mean to us as a technical team, but one thing clear is that just appearing in the final has boosted confidence amongst the boys and I am sure this will show in the remaining league matches,” said Zuze.
From the team that finished eighth last season, the sugar millers lost a good number of key players among them veteran defender Norman Togara and his brother Pardon Chinungwa, who joined title chasers ZPC Kariba.
Dynamos also fished midfield anchorman Walter Mukanga while the striker whose goals had carried them last season, Misheck Mburayi, moved to municipal side Harare City.
Coming in was the Monomotopa quintet of Charles Rukwanhi, Hillary Mugoniwa, Jimmy Tigere and Praise Tonha together with journeyman Tinei Chitora.
