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| Committee rebuffs suggestion to kick out panel |
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Garry Chirwa, 30 September 2003
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Fam technical committee on Saturday threw out a suggestion by the executive committee to remove Flames’ coaching panel and replace it with an interim one following the 2-1 Cosafa Castle Cup final first leg defeat against Zimbabwe’s Warriors.
Blowing the issue wide open on Monday, the technical body’s chair Henry Moyo said some Fam executive members approached him immediately after Saturday’s loss and proposed that the coaching panel should be removed.
“I pleaded with them not to be emotional. You don’t just decide from the blues to remove the coaches.
“I explained to them that you don’t just fire coaches anyhow...if the association felt the coaches were responsible for the loss then there are procedures that must be followed and you must critically examine situations before a decision is passed,” he said.
Moyo, himself a successful former national coach and player, said it would be a big gamble for Fam to remove the coaches at this point.
“We have a return leg match against Zimbabwe this Sunday and then we are supposed to take on Ethiopia next weekend in a World Cup preliminary and you cannot afford to make such crucial changes all of a sudden.
He added: “It is also sad to note that Fam is trying to push the blame to the coaches when they are equally part of this loss. As head of technical committee, I have been pestering them to organise the committee’s meetings so that we can be able to advise the coaches but nothing came up.
“When we won against Botswana and Zambia on post-match penalties, I kept on inquiring about post-match meetings to analyse the games but they seemed to be satisfied with the results and now just because we have lost, they want us to meet and they want the coaches to go...are we serious?” wondered Moyo.
He also said his committee was supposed to meet Monday evening to have a postmortem of the Warriors’ game and how the Flames should approach the return leg.
“I think we still have chances but we have to work on the players’ psychology and then work on our mistakes like attacking from the midfield, cutting crosses and fielding,” said Moyo.
He added: “For example during the game against Zimbabwe, it was evidently clear that our defending when it came to corner kicks and crosses was awful and the midfield also struggled with some players like Peter Mgangira being fielded in wrong positions. But the performance improved when we introduced Joseph Kamwendo and Robert Ng’ambi in the second half.”
Another member of the committee Charles Nyirenda also complained about the operations of the committee.
“To me it is like a paper committee. For months now we have not had a meeting and I hear there is now talk of having a meeting just because we have lost. That is not the proper way to do things.
“There is poor coordination, the technical committee has to have a clear programme like in this case we are supposed to meet and brainstorm on what we should do in Harare,” said Nyirenda. |
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