Who is who among the coaches?

. Raymond Jaravaza
WARRIORS coach Callisto Pasuwa joins an elite league of just four black African coaches who will lead their respective teams in the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Gabon among a legion of foreign gaffers.

Only Zimbabwe, Senegal, Guinea Bissau and the DRC entrusted their national teams with local coaches while the other 12 nations taking part in the Afcon finals opted to cross borders in search of gaffers to lead their teams in Africaaï¿½ï¿½s most prestigious tournament.

Zimbabwe are in Group B with Senegal, Algeria and Tunisia in the continental showpiece that kicks off on 14 January to 10 February.

B-Metro Sport takes a look at Pasuwaaï¿½ï¿½s adversaries when the Warriors seek to write history in the biennial tournament.

Senegal:

Aliou CissAï¿½, a former Senegalese international player who previously played for English Premier League sides Birmingham City and Portsmouth, was roped in as the Senegal senior national in 2012.

CissAï¿½ is best known for leading the Senegalese team to the last eight at the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea when he captained the national team side that beat the then defending champions France along the way.

His appointment to the position of Senegal head coach was hailed as a chance for a black African to coach one of the continentaï¿½ï¿½s top teams and he lived up to expectations by guiding the team to the finals of the 2017 Afcon finals in Gabon.

His contract is set to be reviewed after the continental football showpiece.

Tunisia:

Henryk Kasperczak is a Polish football manager and a former player whose current stint with the Tunisian senior national team is a second spell after he guided the team to second position losing 2-0 to Afcon winners South Africa in 1996.

He also coached Cote daï¿½ï¿½Ivoire finishing in third place in 1994 Afcon finals in Tunisia as well as stints with Mali.

In 2015 he was fired from the Mali senior national team failing to steer the team out of the group stages at the Afcon finals staged in Equatorial Guinea.

Algeria:

Best remembered for clinching the 2004 Afcon tournament with Tunisia after beating Morocco 2-1, Georges Leekens, a Belgian native, returned to coach the Algerian senior national team in October 2016.

He took over from fired Milovan Rajevac who was sacked by the Algerian Football Federation following a shacky start to the 2018 Russia World Cup qualifiers.

Prior to making a return to the Algerian senior national team Leekens had coached the Desert Foxes in a brief spell in 2003.

List of coaches at the 2017 Afcon finals:

Gabon aï¿½ï¿½ Jose Antonio Camacho (Spain)

Morocco aï¿½ï¿½ Herve Renard (France)

Algeria aï¿½ï¿½ Georges Leekens (Belgium)

Cameroon aï¿½ï¿½ Hugo Broos (Belgium)

Burkina Faso aï¿½ï¿½ Paulo Duarte (Portugal)

Tunisia aï¿½ï¿½ Henryk Kasperczak (Poland)

Ivory Coast aï¿½ï¿½ Michel Dussuyer (France)

Togo aï¿½ï¿½ Claude Le Roy (France)

Uganda aï¿½ï¿½ Milutin Sredojevic (Serbia)

Ghana aï¿½ï¿½ Avram Grant (Israel)