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HARARE giants Dynamos, are pushing for a new culture that honours hard work, results, and competence.
Dynamos are the most successful club on the land with 21 titles. However, they have gone nine years without clinching the title.
Currently, they are second-placed on the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League standings, eight points adrift of log leaders Ngezi Platinum with five games to go.
Dynamos have a game hand against Manica Diamonds.
Though they are playing second fiddle to Madamburo, DeMbare are still hopeful that they can snatch the title from Ngezi Platinum’s noses.
On Sunday they face CAPS United in the Chibuku Super Cup semi-final at National Sports Stadium as they seek a ticket into the CAF Confederation Cup draw.
Dynamos vice chairman Vincent Chawonza believes the process might be painful but they are taking steps back to the glamourous days.
“Change of culture is painful, it’s not easy.
“That is why you see there was a lot of outcry when we started to implement some of these changes.
“But I recall that in our first days, I talked of pursuing professionalism. People will be used to doing certain things for a very long time, some more than 40 years.
“At Dynamos, there are no longer sacred cows. We now work with what you have done not who you are so we treat everyone fairly.
“If there is going to be impactful change at Dynamos, the club has to listen to the professionals they have sought help from.
“The owners, stakeholders, and shareholders of Dynamos have to listen.
“You can’t hire a dog and bark for it, if you allow professionals to be part of your organisation let them do the work.
Chawonza stressed the integration of junior teams and senior teams as one of their major blueprints going forward.
“We revived our junior policy, having curtain raiser matches, and making sure everyone is staying in their lane and no one should overlap. If you do overlap then you face the music.
“When we made changes there were anti-football things that we were doing and we had to stop that. As a result, you can see the whole team and the executive are united in delivering the job.”
Chawonza hinted that Genesis Mangombe is likely to be appointed on a permanent basis as his results have spoken for himself.
“Genesis will definitely not remain on an interim basis, a decision has to be made by the club, everyone is happy with his work so far. He cannot act for the rest of his life but results are talking.
“Everyone at the club is united and we are pulling in one direction and we want to win. We believe we can still do it in the league and in the Chibuku Super Cup we are still in and we just have to skip the obstacle on Sunday.
Online Reporter