JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwe Warriors head coach Sunday "Mhofu" Chidzambwa looks set to join Free State Stars following an interview in Bloemfontein last week, a club official told CAJ News Agency last Friday. Marimo was in Bloemfontein for two days last week before flying back to Harare, Zimbabwe last Thursday.
In an interview Free State Stars spokesman Mosikili Bothata said the Zimbabwe national team coach was one of the three foreign coaches interviewed by the club management.
“Yes, I can safely confirm that Sunday Chidzambwa was one of the three foreign coaches interviewed at Free State Stars Football Club on Thursday. But we are not yet through with the interviews, which will then determine whom, among the candidates would take up the new post. Remember we have local coaches too,” said Bothata.
The newly appointed Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) chairman, Cuthbert Dube, could not immediately reached for comment on the matter but an official at ZIFA House told CAJNews that Chidzambwa remains contracted to the Zimbabwe soccer authority.
The official, who refused anonymity, argued that there was no way Chidzambwa could leave the national team to join Free State Stars.
“Chidzambwa is our head coach, who is expected to take our national team to the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations final. The country is investing heavily in him and I can’t see him betraying his own country in favour of a club. But if he finds it necessary to call it day, then there is nothing we can do to stop him,” said the ZFA official.
Chidzambwa is the first coach to take the under-achieving Zimbabwe soccer national team to the Africa Cup of Nations final in Tunisia, 2004.
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