With the football gods seemingly smiling on
Championship winning gaffer Callisto Pasuwa, the first to win four league
titles on the trot, news that the Mbada Diamonds Cup for the 2014 season had
been cancelled might just as well have denied him his third Mbada Cup as he is
set to leave the Dynamos dressing room on 31 December when his contract
expires.
Pundits had already predicted Dynamos will
maintain its 2014 dominance in the Cup which was set to also feature ZPC Kariba
FC, Caps United and FC Platinum.
PSL president, Twine Phiri said that they
were forced to cancel the Cup in the last minute after the PSL board noted
that Mbada will not get adequate mileage from a hastily organized tournament and
therefore it had to be postponed to the start of next season.
‘Ras Pasuwa’ as he is affectionally known
will miss the fifth edition of the Mbada Cup after having tendered his
resignation to the DeMbare board ending, a four year fight with club chairman Kenny
Mubaiwa who has said that the club will soon flight an advert in the country’s
mainstream media in search of a new coach.
“First of all we need to appreciate what
the technical tam did for DeMbare, they were one of the best. We are going to
flight an advert for the post even though we feel that the coach should have
first consulted the board before making such a decision.
“The club will definitely avoid appointing
those who have been discarded elsewhere,” said Mubaiwa who has overseen arguably
the best years of Dynamos.
Despite his success, the 43-year-old Pasuwa
has not been appreciated by the DeMbare executive which always seemed to be
waiting for a slight mistake to relieve him of his duties. They tried it in
2012 and 2014 when he started the league a bit sluggishly and also when he was
knocked out of the CAF Champion’s League in 2013 and 2014.
Though Mubaiwa says the club will soon
flight newspaper adverts in search of a new coach to replace Callisto Pasuwa, finding
a replacement in the same mould as Pasuwa will not be a simple task.
Documents shown to this publication reveal
that Dynamos are looking to sign a coach with three years’ experience in the
topflight and with no less than a CAF B Coaching License with the deadline
being 15 December 2014.
Besides Pasuwa only former Highlanders Coach
Kevin Kaindu (UEFA B) and relegated side Bantu Rovers Coach Methemebe Ndlovu
(CAF A) have better qualifications. Kaindu has been tipped as one of the front
runners though the race is not quite clear yet.
Pasuwa has over the years been referred to
as Zimbabwe’s own Pep Guardiola, winning some 15 titles over his three and a
half year history at the helm of the 21 time champions’ technical team.
This year alone Pasuwa won the Castle Lager
Premiership for the fourth year on the trot, the Bob@90 Cup, TM Super Cup and
the recent Gushungo Cup to celebrate President Mugabe’s resounding win in the
2013 harmonized elections.
According to the contract between Pasuwa
and Dynamos, his departure leaves no one behind as his trusted lieutenants, Richard
Chihoro, Philimon Mutyakureva and goal keepers’ Coach Tichaona Diya will also
follow suit.
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