Pills are always bitter to swallow, but most of them cure the ailments, and for the Mighty Warriors who have had to face a tough competition off season, their elimination at the hands of Angola, albeit 4-5 on penalties, had a lot to do with the FA than the performance of the team, The Page writes.
To criticise the coach or her players after playing Angola in two legs, is as unfortunate as it is intellectually dishonest. What was clear was that the players lacked the endurance to close out matches, an obvious situation where players are not fully conditioned for the rigours of the challenge.
The girls are as human as they are agents of science when it comes to scientific correctness. You cannot rig metabolism nor can you fake fitness. Our girls did not lack technical support. They did not lack knowledge of the task at hand.
They did not lack the psychological wherewithal and for anyone to want to point a finger at coach Kwinji 15 for the failure, is a clear sign that it is not about football, but something else.
Football, as played in the two legs, proved that with better fitness and competitiveness Zimbabwe had it in them to beat Angola over two legs.
But they lacked the necessary man hours to give the players the finesse to deliver results. The 10 000-hours-rule cannot be rigged, no matter the profile. It is like an economy. If it is bad, it is bad.
Veteran striker, Rutendo Makore, looked slow and unfit and to expect her to then deliver goals from half chances, which is her forte, is unfair.
Yolanda Kanyai, playing at her diaspora club, did not have what the match required – ability to manipulate. If those who are active and fit and playing at clubs could struggle with the requirements for the match, what about for those with zero game time man- hours?
Football is not as easy as WhatsApp discourse where anyone with data to kill, can posture anything to disguise their ignorance while passing their puerile connotations as informed opinion.
Football is more than that….and it explains why you hear more calls for the coach to be fired from that carved corner of society than from those who understand that football is more than emotive farting.
Zifa president, Nqobile Magwizi, to his credit, understood the enormity of the challenge that stood before our girls and praised them for both effort and hard work.
He did not parrot, ”fire the coach” hymn, which is being pushed by those who never wanted Kwinji 15 as coach in the first place…and they use the borderless WhatsApp with self-professed “know it all brigades”.
Magwizi, who is slowly turning out to be a listening president, as he is also noticing that there are other members of his Exco who mislead him for their selfish interests, was emphatic that the girls may have failed to progress but did well and that they will build on that progress, going forward.
It is so sad that both matches which were glaringly open, that if our girls were any notch fitter and better conditioned would have won, finds some misguided voices, sadly from some coaches who are angling to “replace” Kwinji.
The Mighty Warriors could have beaten Angola, but there are work in progress and Kwinji 15 must be allowed the time to stamp her signature on the team.
You do not give a coach a task today and fire her tomorrow unless you are yourself (FA) suspect. Fans are fickle. That is their nature. They celebrate one minute and complain the very next minute, so you just allow them to be who they are.
That is why you saw them in Pretoria behaving like imbeciles. Yaa, that is their nature. You give them a bus and money for accommodation and they would demand more women and booze too, Ndoo zvavari.
And anyone who take them seriously, risk losing him or herself.
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