NEWLY appointed Zimbabwe Senior Men’s football team assistant coach Benjani Mwaruwari is set to continue in his role following the departure of head coach Zdravko Logarusic and his assistants, Tonderai Ndiraya and Lloyd Chitembwe.
Logarusic was fired earlier today following a Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) Executive Committee meeting.
The Croatian bade farewell to the Warriors after 14 games in which he won only one match.
Mwaruwari was roped in to join the Warriors technical bench as an assistant a week before the Warriors Group G home tie against South Africa after completing his coaching course in Ireland last month.
“He’s not going anyway. He will join the new bench in the same capacity as an assistant coach. Certainly, he can’t have failed just after two games,” a source told EnterSportNews.
“But as for the other two assistants, those ones are definitely going with their master, and it can’t be Logarusic alone because these ones constituted his technical team right from the onset. Some of them even took charge of the team in his absence after the Visa issue in South Africa if you still recall that incident.”
The 42-year-old former Jomo Cosmos, Auxerre, Portsmouth and Manchester City player has shown interest in running for the ZIFA presidency and still harbours the same ambition but wants to cut his teeth in administration and coaching as he prepares himself for the biggest job in Zimbabwe football.
