WARRIORS coach Ian Gorowa is yet to submit a report to Zifa on the Warriors’ defeat to Tanzania which knocked them out of the race for the 2015 African Cup of Nations finals in Morocco.
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The football mother body had asked the coach to prepare a report and submit it to Zifa for a review by its High Performance Technical Committee.
The Zifa sub-committee is expected to convene in Harare today to review the Warriors’ exit from the continental qualifiers.
Gorowa’s report was also expected to touch on the Chan tournament, the qualifiers preceding the tournament and the friendly matches played since last year.
Zifa Communications manager Xolisani Gwesela, however, said Gorowa was also not in the country and had not yet submitted the report by yesterday.
Chairperson of the High Performance Technical Committee John Phiri, also a Zifa board member, said they would continue with their meeting even in the absence of a report from the coach.
“We will be meeting tomorrow [today]. We have got a number of issues to discuss about our national teams including women football, so we cannot fail to hold the meeting simply because there is no report from the coach. But if you check with the Zifa CEO, they should have it. By the time we meet tomorrow [today], I am sure the report will be there,” Phiri said.
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The Warriors were defeated 3-2 on aggregate by Tanzania after they went down 0-1 in Dar es Salaam in the first leg, before being held to a disappointing 2-2 in the reverse encounter at the National Sports Stadium.
The Warriors had been expected to beat the Taifa Stars and progress to the next round in which they were scheduled to meet neighbours Mozambique for the right to play in the group stages in Group E which comprises 2012 African Champions Zambia, Cape Verde and Niger.
The committee will also carry an audit of the entire technical structures, and then pass its recommendations to the Zifa board, which will then make decisions going forward.
Zifa technical director Maxwell Takaendesa Jongwe, appointed recently to that post, is also part of the committee.
The committee also includes Misheck Chidzambwa, Gibson Homela, Cosmas “Tsano” Zulu, Charles “Raw Meat” Sibanda, Caf referees’ instructor Wilfred Mukuna and junior soccer coach Bheki Nyoni.
The Committee had been scheduled to meet two weeks ago, but was postponed as some of the Zifa bosses were in Brazil for a pre-World Cup Fifa conference.
