adminMoyo who is in charge of the competitions portfolio in the Zifa board said Gorowa’s appointment was not a new development as the former Black Rhinos and Dynamos striker had since last year been roped into the association’s technical structures.
Gorowa will have the technical support of new lieutenants — Dynamos coach Callisto Pasuwa and FC Platinum Under-19 gaffer Jairos Tapera — who joined returning goalkeepers’ coach Richard Tswatswa on the dressing room staff list that also includes the medical pair of team doctor Nicholas Munyonga, physiotherapist Farai Muguwe and acting team manager Patrick Mutesva.
Moyo who also chairs the association’s High performance sub-committee said Gorowa had in consultation with Zifa also decided to use the coaches who are already in the association’s national teams’ structures with Pasuwa coming in from the Under-23 squad while Tapera is also the national Under-20 coach.
Although he had called on Young Warriors coaches, Moyo said, Gorowa would still retain the liberty to choose his own assistants on a permanent basis.
Moyo said Warriors legend Peter Ndlovu could have been part of the technical set up by virtue of being the Under-23 gaffer but the former Sheffield United man has since left the country to rejoin Mamelodi Sundowns in South Africa.
“Ian is not new to the Warriors as such. He was part of the technical department when we restructured and was an assistant who was based in South Africa.
“We have just elevated him since he was one of the assistants. Peter is not around, he has not yet officially communicated his position to us so naturally Pasuwa as an Under-23 assistant steps in.
“This is an emergency and since we did not have backroom staff for this particular assignment we consulted with the coach and he looked at those that are already in the structures.
“It is the same case with Jairos Tapera and as for Twatswa we also said looked for an experienced hand’’.
Moyo also said Sharrif Mussa would remain the Warriors team manager insisting that the affable Harare businessman “still has a lot to offer to the national teams.
“Sharif is in the Warriors manager and is general manager of all national teams. At the moment he is on Ramadan and he actually requested that Mutseva steps in to stand in for him but I would like to make it clear that he is the substantive manager,’’ Moyo said.
Moyo however acknowledged that Zifa could not continue to chop and change Warriors coaches or appoint them on an interim basis and indicated that that the board was set to meet early next week to announce full details of Gorowa’s tenure.
Although the board is set to finalise the finer aspects of Gorowa’s contract, Moyo said the coach would have qualification for the 2015 African Cup Nations as his main target.
The Zifa board member said their perennial financial problems faced by his association meant that they would always struggle to retain coaches.
“As long as you are a poor man your house is on fire. We got Pagels on a government to government basis because we don’t have money to pay for our coaches’ packages whether local or foreign.
“So it is always about negotiations to see when and if resources permit because we don’t have the money, we don’t have sponsors on board and government that is also supposed to come in a major partner has also not been there for us and that is the biggest challenge we have.
“There had even been suggestions that we should withdraw from all competitions and we had resolved as a board that we not compete but some quarters suggested that we should not pull the national team out of all competitions.
“So we have been limping and under the circumstances I think we have done well even without sponsors or partners and having to rely on individuals. Right now the team is going to Mauritius but we are still struggling to find money for the tickets and for the team’s upkeep and we continue to limp.
“During the Cosafa Cup in Zambia, we saw the Minster of Sport taking charge of the team’s welfare, it was the same case with the Lesotho and Angola teams and that shows the difference,’’ Moyo said.
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