adminstruggled to find his scoring form in the German Bundesliga.
According to Vickers, for the Warriors to fire they needed Musona to score and how the striker would do that, after a period of stagnation, in terms of career development in the Bundesliga, was still questionable.
Vickers got it right that Musona is the heart and soul of the Warriors.
He also got it right that there was a chance he could explode in the big match, something that the striker did yesterday with another superb performance for his country in which he scored a beauty of a goal for the equaliser.
Musona had appeared pessimistic about his chances of making a mark in yesterday’s game.
“It’s been a long time since I played a normal competitive game,” Musona, who barely featured for Augsburg after the winter break, told the BBC.
“It was frustrating, I was fighting for my position but the second half of the season was not so good for me, I must say it was a hard time for me.
“I think my game went some steps back, because the previous season I was playing regularly and this season I didn’t play so much.”
But Musona, playing for the Warriors, is a different player altogether and scored his second goal, against the Pharaohs, in as many games.
Another African player also fell out of favour at Augsburg this year, blond-haired Burkina Faso striker Aristide Bance.
“For Aristide, once he came back from the Africa Cup of Nations he didn’t get the chance to play because the team was playing well and the coach didn’t want to change the team, so Aristide had no chance,” said Musona.
“But he’s a good player and I know next season he will play.”
The future looked bright for Musona when he arrived at Hoffenheim from South African club Kaizer Chiefs in 2011, but now he is not sure where he will be playing next season.
“I don’t know anything yet, but I think I have to find the right team where I can play and where I’m appreciated then I think everything will be alright. If I find the right team I can start to pick up my game from where I left off a year ago,” Musona told BBC Sport.
Despite his barren season at Augsburg, Musona has continued to play well for Zimbabwe, and he fired in a goal from long range in the 2-1 defeat to Egypt in Alexandria in a World Cup qualifier in March. Musona is one of the more established figures in a squad being rebuilt by German coach Klaus Dieter Pagels, and he had not given up hope of a miraculous qualification.
“It’s a good team, a young team, and we have to add a little bit of confidence and a little bit more experience in our team, then I think we can go far,” he said.
“I think we have to just keep on playing well and build a team for the next Africa Cup of Nations, and we just have to fight to the end of the World Cup qualifiers and try to win all the games left and keep on building the team.”
The end, though, in the bid for the World Cup, came yesterday for Musona and his Warriors but not before the striker scored again for his country. — Senior Sports Editor/BBC Sport
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