Online Reporter
Robson Sharuko
Metros Editor
THE Warriors kit has triggered controversy and has been met with a storm of both disapproval and condemnation.
The emotions have been running high.
We have seen a number of former Warriors even being drawn into the debate and criticising the kit.
But, at H-Metro, we have taken a deliberate position that we should not flood our spaces with stories related to the kit – from those who approve it to those who are not happy with it.
Instead, we feel that, with just a few days before our boys plunge into action with a date against Mo Salah and his Pharaohs in our first game at the AFCON finals, this is not the time to waste our energy on the quality, or lack of it, of our kit.
Instead, this is the time for us to concentrate on what really matters – the story which will unfold on the pitch.
Yes, our appearance matters but that is not the reason we are going to the AFCON finals.
We didn’t qualify for the tournament to win the title of being the best dressed team at the finals.
We qualified to take on the best teams on the continent and show them that we also have a team that can compete at the very highest level.
We qualified for this tournament to try, once again, to make it beyond the group stages.
We did not hire a foreign coach so that he goes back home, after his contract has expired or we fire him, and he tells his grandkids that the best thing he loved was that we had the best kit in Africa.
We hired him to deliver us to a place where we have never been in the past – the good feeling that comes with playing in the knockout stages of AFCON.
Super Mario, the coach we hired, knows the feeling because he took Malawi into that phase of the competition.
Along the way, his team beat us.
We now want him to take us into those spaces and that is what matters right now.
The Flames didn’t have the best kit at that AFCON but they were a success story.
Our focus, at this delicate moment, should not be on the kit but on our boys who have already suffered the setback of losing one of their best players – Marshall Munetsi, through injury.
For us, the kit conversation can wait for another day.
Right now, it’s about our boys, our team, our country.
