adminchampions, Vainona High, will go into the hat as seeded teams when the draw is conducted during the launch.
Matabeleland North will have two boys’ representatives, including hosts Mosi-a-Tunya, and the provincial winners while defending champions Manunure High, alongside the provincial winner, will represent Midlands province.
In the girls’ category, Harare province will have two representatives — defending champions Vainona High and the provincial winners — with Matabeleland North also providing two teams, Mosi-a-Tunya and provincial winners.
The provincial finals are scheduled for July 13 across all the country’ ten provinces with the national finals slated for Mosi-a-Tunya High in Victoria Falls on the weekend of July 27-29.
A number of high-profile players that includes the legion of foreign-based players who are off-season and PSL coaches are expected to grace the glittering occasion.
Manunure High are expected to field the majority of the players that took part in last year’s national finals in Marondera where they beat Mwenezi 3-1 in the final.
Solomon Matsika, Manunure High coach, has wide selection options in form of last year’s goalkeeper of the tournament, Stanley Chakwana, Golden Boot winner Kelvin
Sibanda, Nesbit Gwede, Munyaradzi Phiri and Ronald Muzvidzwa.
Vainona High, coach Langton Kagwere will have the luxury of fielding last year’s key players — goalkeeper Sibonisiwe Sibanda, Greater Bande, Florence Kandarira and Under-20 striker Nyasha Munemo.
At the end of the tournament, a panel of media personnel, who will be covering the national finals in Victoria Falls, will select 20 players.
Last year, the Zimbabwe COPA Coca-Cola dream team joined nine African countries that took part in the COPA Coca-Cola International Football Camp at Chelsea in
London.
This year the selected squad will represent Zimbabwe at the training camp in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a two-week period in August this year.
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