Can Pasuwa set a new record?

MatchDay

With five games left before the end of the 2014 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League, champions Dynamos coach Kallisto Pasuwa could set a new record by clinching the championship for the fourth time in a row to replicate the class of 1980 to 83.

With long time rivals Highlanders FC practically out of the race, Kallistus Pasuwa’s Dynamos face a challenge for their championships hopes from new boys ZPC Kariba and giants CAPS United.

Last year the soft spoken Dynamos gaffer, ‘Ras’ Pasuwa attained a first in local soccer by leading DeMbare to a third consecutive title.

Though a number of Dynamos fans never had confidence in Pasuwa, he has proven to be the magician behind the side’s success story.

However, a new momentous record beacons for Pasuwa with the remaining five matches before the country’s elite league comes to an end.

The character that the Pasuwa coached Dynamos FC has shown over the past three years, winning the league in 2011, 2012 and 2013 coupled with its depth it seems no team is likely to stop the menacing Mbare outfit.

Dynamos take on Gweru based Chapungu FC, a club which beat them 1 nil at home in the first half of the season.

The fact that no team has managed to snatch 6 points from Dynamos for the past 3 seasons gives Pasuwa’s man an edge over the airforce side, something which should be a motivation for Chapungu who despite their entertaining brand of football are fighting relegation.

Dynamos have a history of not faltering at the tail end of every season and there is no evidence that this year might be different. The Mbare based outfit has not lost its final five matches for the past three seasons and that alone is armour enough for the three time championships winning coach.

Another burden that Chapungu will easily not brush aside as they enter the lion’s den, at Rufaro stadium, is the fact that Dynamos have not lost a single match at Rufaro stadium since they shifted to their fortress in the second half of this season.

If they manage to beat Chapungu, Dynamos will be left with a tricky encounter against How Mine, ZPC Kariba, relegation bound Chiredzi and Bantu rovers FC, matches which Pasuwa definitely knows are critical if he is to rewrite football history books.

ABSA premiership returnee, Roderick Mutuma might just be partnering Clive Kawinga who had been nursing a nagging thigh injury for the greater part of the season while Pasuwa still has his fingers crossed for Player of the season contender Stephen Alimenda’s speedy return to the first team after a few weeks out due to a slight muscle injury. Ronald ‘Rooney’ Chitiyo will as usual be expected to be at his classic best.

Reigning soccer star of the year, Tawanda Muparati, Walter Mukanga and Thomas Magorimbo have been delivering for the team in his absence however.

But again as the old adage goes, ‘anything can happen in football’, Pasuwa goes into Sunday’s match with the hope of winning the game such that he remains in course to set a new extraordinary record for the country’s league.