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Tadious Manyepo Sports Reporter
DYNAMOS have retreated to Kariba as they intensify their preparations ahead of the 2024 Premiership season.
The Glamour Boys will be fighting on two fronts as they are scheduled to return to continental club football for the first time in more than a decade when they compete in the CAF Confederation Cup after winning the Chibuku Super Cup last season.
Coach Genesis “Kaka” Mangombe will also make winning the league title a top priority to preserve the club’s fine reputation.
Since their formation in 1963, Dynamos have never gone for more than 10 years without lifting the championship trophy.
They last won the league title in 2014 and the team will have to wrap it up to avoid denting their track record.
And the giants are leaving nothing to chance, taking with them about 35 players to the resort town where they aim to attain concrete team bonding and build one of the most important motor quality-endurance.
The former champions will spend 10 days in Kariba where they are also scheduled to engage ZPC Kariba in a practice game on Saturday.
Dynamos chairman Moses Maunganidze said the team is expected to partake in various leisure activities aimed at creating unity and focus before they return to the capital early next week.
“The team is in Kariba where they arrived on Saturday. They are expected to spend about 10 days engaging in different team building exercises to foster unity within the group,” said Maunganidze.
“As a club, we are going to make sure that we afford these players everything they need to prepare for the upcoming season.
“We are also taking this opportunity to preach to these players the Dynamos ideology which will be a continuous thing as we go.
“We need to have players who know the core values that define a Dynamos player. We are a team with a culture and we should try by all means to inculcate that into our players.
“At the end of the day we should build a winning team that can roll back the hands of time and be able to fill the country’s stadiums again”.
The Harare giants have signed several experienced players as they bid to rule the local football landscape again.
While losing some of their star players from last season like Junior Makunike and Taimon Mvula, the Glamour Boys have taken on board the vastly experienced duo of Temptation Chiunga, who was making waves at South Africa’s first division side JDR Stars last season and former Hearts of Oak midfielder Frederick Ansah Botchway of Ghana.
They have also brought in former FC Platinum defender Nomore Chinyerere and Namibian forward Sydney Uri Khob.
The pair of Ephany Gwavava and Meki Meki who were signed from second division side Dulivhadzimu last season and loaned back to the team have also rejoined the club.
They are under assessment with Mangombe saying he will come up with a decision to loan them or to have them for this season.
“Honestly speaking, these are very good players. They are impressive and we will consider a lot of factors before we have a decision.
“We have about 33 players in our books right now but we will secure more and that means we will also have to loan some elsewhere.
“I am very happy with what these guys are doing at the moment and we will see as preparations progress which areas need to be addressed,” said Mangombe.
“But so far so good. Everyone is happy and the performance level is top-notch from everyone.
“This is what we expect and it gives us a lot of confidence going forward.”
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