The Warriors will be playing Uganda tomorrow in their second Group B
game at the African Nations Championship in Cape Town. Zimbabwe opened
their campaign with a 0-0 draw against Morocco, and we could
have got all 3 points if the strikers had been more accurate. However, Warriors coach Ian Gorowa says that he is convinced that he assembled the strongest possible squad for the tournament, which is for locally-based players only. Gorowa believes the only missing striker is Tendai Ndoro who was ineligible as he is now in the Absa Premiership while CHAN is exclusively for those playing in their respective countries’ domestic leagues.
"Remember these are the best players we selected from Zimbabwe. We chose the best 23 in my opinion, in the technical team’s opinion and obviously out of the best (23) players you’ve got to have the best 11 and I thought in terms of that we did what we had to do against Morocco,” said Gorowa.
“In coming up with the squad I also looked at the goalscorers’ chart and Tendai Ndoro was the top goalscorer but he is not here and that is the case.
“I do not know who was the second and third but remember we were working with Donald for a long time, we were working with Nelson for a long time, Simba also, I think he came to the party.
“With experience and what we have, I thought this is the best striking options which we have.
“Any other options I think we would be experimenting. There were some players, for example one who was playing for Buffaloes and scoring goals, but I don’t think he’s that kind of player which we would want.
“So for me these are the best options we have going forward.”
The Warriors gaffer also ruled out making big changes to the starting eleven.
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