Online Reporter
EVERYTHING has just been going wrong for Dynamos this year.
The Glamour Boys are struggling in the domestic Premiership campaign after picking just one win in their opening 13 matches.
The country’s biggest and most successful football club find themselves sitting on third-from-the-bottom of the table.
They are just two points better off than bottom club Kwekwe United. The ailing Harare giants have just four goals to their credit this year, one of them being an own goal from the defender of an opponent, and the other two being scored by their defenders, including a penalty.
Only one DeMbare striker has scored a goal all season and it came in the 13th game of the season in their 1-2 loss to Ngezi Platinum Stars last weekend.
The coach who was in charge at the start of the season, Lloyd “MaBlanyo” Chigowe, has been fired.
The assistant coach, Mark Mathe, has also been fired.
A new coach, who has never won any silverware on the local football scene and was in charge of the club which sits at the bottom of the table, Saul Chaminuka, is the one who is now in charge at DeMbare.
The bulk of their fans have simply stopped coming to watch them play while those who were still coming are now calling for a boycott of the club’s matches.
Yesterday, those who are representing the fans called for a boycott of the match against Highlanders at Rufaro on Sunday.
This was the same message which we were hearing ahead of the Dynamos match against CAPS United which attracted the lowest number of fans, for a Harare Derby, in the past decade.
Amid all this unrest, FIFA dropped a bombshell this week when the world football governing body handed Dynamos a transfer ban which will bar them from registering players locally and internationally. According to the FIFA ruling, Dynamos are currently owing their former Ghanaian imports — winger Emmanuel Paga and midfielder Frederick Ansah Botchway — US$8,500 and US$10,000 respectively.
That is US$18,500 in total.
Both players have since left Dynamos. We always feared that matters were about to come to a head at Dynamos and, sady, this is what has happened right now.
We should not view the FIFA ruling in isolation.
We have to realise that this is just the start of a number of such lawsuits which will come from players and coaches who, for years, have been abused by the Dynamos leadership. We are told that Sadney Urikhob’s case is also in the pipeline as the Namibian forward is owed a substantial amount of money.
We are also told that Emmanuel Ziocha’s case is also in the pipeline and there are many more such cases which are about to explode.
For about a decade now, Dynamos have been run like a tuckshop by Bernard Marriot and his family and these are the results of that mismanagement.
Something just has to give at Dynamos and the sooner Marriot realises this the better.
