The Warriors found themselves sitting at the bottom of Group G of the World Cup Qualifiers. This followed after they suffered defeat 5 times, drew 8 times and won only once. Of course, football supporters began to call out for the sacking of the coach. Fortunately, their cries were heard.

This record of poor performance even lead to investigations being carried on the legitimacy of Loga’s coaching license. Loga has since been replaced by talented local coach Norman Mapeza who has until the end of this year to prepare the team for AFCON.

A a severance package Zdravko Logarusic has been given US$90 000.

The agreement breaks down the package money as follows:

1. US$35 000 being money from sign-on fees, outstanding bonuses and liquidated damages.
2. US$55 000 – which is 10% of the US$550 000 that Zimbabwe is given for qualifying for a third successive Africa Cup of Nations finals.

A severance package is common procedure when an employee is laid off. This agreements avoids any future lawsuits that might arise. Thus, Zimbabwe and Loga have parted ways on good terms, with no hard feelings.

Meanwhile the nation is hopeful as the move to bring in Norman Mapeza is already promising.

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The Zimbabwe football squad under the Croatian, Zdravko Logarusic is showing no signs of improvement even with big names like Marshall Munetsi, Khama Billiat and prolific striker Knowledge Musona, granted we were missing Marvelous Nakamba.

With the introduction of Benjani Mwaruwari as Assistant Coach, fans were expectant of some improvement but nothing has changed, although in all fairness ‘Loga’ has the last say.

Despite ZIFA offering a US$64 000 winning bonus for the Warriors we still succumbed to the perceived weakest link in the Group G, Ethiopia.

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— la flvme (@Keith_tino_zw) September 8, 2021

Zimbabwe is currently siting at the bottom of the table in Group G, which is widely regarded as an easy group. Zimbabwe is now expected to face Ghana which is no push-over.

The big question is, is Zdravko Logarusic the right man for the job?

In the past 14 games, he has only managed 1 Win, 8 Draws and 5 Defeats, and just to put it into perspective Egypt has sacked their coach Hossam El Badry for drawing to  Gabon, he has 5 wins and 4 draws in his past 9 matches.

Following the loss to Ethiopia in the 2022 World Cup Qualifiers Loga didn’t even take responsibility but he rather apportioned the blame to the referees and the players, sounds like Arsenal’s coach Mikel Arteta and look where they are.

In my opinion ZIFA has no choice but to sack Loga before it gets worse, what do you think?

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Wilson Mutekede, Zifa’s technical director was said to have requested confirmation from Uefa of the validity of Loga’s Pro License.

While the investigations were ongoing many suspicions where being raised in regards to Loga’s coaching qualifications. Some of these brutal allegations and the reasons for carrying out the investigation were discussed in an article we previously published.

Well, the final verdict is now out!

The Croatian Football Federation have since confirmed that coach Loga’s license is indeed legit and was acquired in 2013 as he had said. Its validity will be until June of 2021.

In a statement issued to the media by the Croatian Football Federation through Tomislav Pacak, it was ascertained that there was nothing amiss with  Loga’s UEFA badges.

He said the following statement:

“We hereby confirm that Mr Logarušic earned his UEFA Pro license in 2013 at the Croatian Football Federation Football Academy and his current badge (identification card) is valid until 30 June 2021. So, from our side, there is absolutely nothing suspicious about his license,”

Regarding this matter, Mutekede gave assurance that prior to hiring the Warriors coach Loga, a thorough verification of his qualifications was made through CAF so whether or not the licenses were being illegally obtained would be out of his scope of knowledge.

What are your thoughts on this matter?

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Amidst dissatisfaction from fans over the performance of the Warriors’ coach Zdravko Logarusic, the Zimbabwe Football Association(ZIFA) has stepped in with similar sentiments. A leaked conversation relating to the coach’s qualifications has lead ZIFA to start investigating the legitimacy of coach they hired.

A South African source that is cognisant of the investigations being carried out informed ZIFA of a huge scandal taking place amongst most European coaches. It is reported that some Uefa coaching badges are acquired unethically and such ‘coaches’ usually have just African clubs or national teams as reference in their CVs and no coaching experience in their native countries.

These ongoing investigations were sparked by an alleged email sent to the Kenyan Football Federation by Loga stating that he will be working on his Uefa Pro License soon. This revelation came as a surprise as Loga had previously stated that he had acquired his Pro License in 2013.

The scandal does not end there. After forwarding his license to the relevant officials, its signatories raised eyebrows yet again.Among the three signatures was said to have been one belonging to a recently convicted fraudster and tax evader Damir Vrbanovic of Croatia.

Investigations are still underway and ZIFA technical director, Wilson Mutekede has reportedly already forwarded a request to a Uefa instructor to check the legitimacy of Loga’s coaching license.

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Our warriors managed to beat Botswana with a score of 1-0 on the Botswana team’s own turf leaving Zimbabwe at 8 points. The match took place at Obed Itani Chilume Stadium in Francistown. The winning goal was scored by Perfect Chikwende. This took place after a series of troubles. For starters some of the players that were needed to complete the warriors team were still stuck in Australia.

Wilson Mutekede who is the technical advisor to ZIFA was ecstatic over this victory and is certain Zimbabweans were too. He shared the following statements:

“We are very happy about what the Warriors did here and we believe that Zimbabweans are happy too.”

CAPS United FC, light-heartedly took to their twitter to say that the victory did not come as a surprise given the USD hard currency bought bus that Caps loaned them.

Luxurious Caps United Bus inspires Warriors to a historic win.

"There is no way we would lose a match if we use such a bus," said a Warriors technical team member who preferred anonymity.

NB: The bus was bought in USD hard currency.
Good night Zimbabwe. #GoWarriorsGo pic.twitter.com/6Hi58bkFG8

— Caps United FC (@capsunitedfczw) March 25, 2021

Less pressure is now on Zimbabwe as they face the final qualifying match against Zambia next week at the National Sports Stadium. As a result of their great performance Zambia will not be able to catch up with Zimbabwe as they have only 4 points. Nonetheless, the warriors are expected to play well against Zambia in the coming match.

Other other hand, Algeria leads Zimbabwe with 3 points as they managed to settle at 11 points after their 3-3 draw with Zambia.

The warriors performance came as a great relief to their coach, Zdravko Logarusic, as he was being criticised over the Warriors’ disastrous performance in Chan 2021 where they lost all three matches.

Serious preparations for the AFCON finals in Cameroon will soon be underway to avoid the embarrassment of  the last tournament in Egypt  were they only managed to accumulate  just 1 point from three matches.

This Nations Cup qualification marks the fifth for the Warriors as they also qualified in the years 2004, 2006, 2017 and 2019.

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