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Warriors Fall Seven Places On Latest FIFA World Rankings

8 months agoFri, 21 Jun 2024 05:25:53 GMT
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Warriors Fall Seven Places On Latest FIFA World Rankings

The Zimbabwe Senior Men’s Football National team, the Warriors, dropped seven places to number 129 on the latest FIFA Rankings released on Thursday, 20 June.

The Warriors’ latest ranking came close to matching their worst global ranking of 131, which they experienced in 2016.

The Warriors were in action in the recent international window and lost their two matches in the 2026 CAF World Cup Qualifiers Group C. Zimbabwe lost 0-2 to Lesotho, before losing 3-1 to South Africa.

In Africa, the Warriors dropped five places to number 38 with 1122.54 points.

2022 World Cup winners Argentina remained the top-ranked side in the world and Morocco is topping the African ranking.

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Speaking to The Herald, top Warriors fan Chris Romario Musekiwa said the team’s lowly rankings were a reflection of poor leadership and lack of planning. He said:

The Warriors slumping to 129th in the world is disastrous and shows our standards in terms of international football continue to fall.

The Warriors have had five different coaches in under 12 months under the current FIFA-appointed ZIFANormalisation Committee chaired by Lincoln Mutasa.

The coaches have been appointed on an interim basis, and the squad for the 2024 COSAFA tournament that kicks off next Wednesday in Gqeberha, South Africa, is yet to be announced. Said Musekiwa:

We might have quality players playing in some of the top leagues and some talented young players but if we do not plan accordingly for international assignments we plan to fail and the results will always be catastrophic.

Just recently a caretaker coach was appointed, a week before key World Cup matches in South Africa The coach didn’t have time to play any friendly and assess all his players.

Football does not lie, we performed dismally. Lesotho (ranked 149th) outplayed us because they have been together as a team for more than a month.

We are imploring the ZIFA Normalisation Committee to appoint a substantive coach to take charge of the Warriors with immediate effect.

We still have six more World Cup qualifying matches to play and if we can put our house in order we can expect better results in future international matches.

The AFCON qualifiers will be starting soon. ZIFA should take the national team seriously and ensure the team is adequately prepared ahead of any international assignments.

Also speaking to The Herald, Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association (ZNSSA) secretary-general Joseph Mutawu said poor funding of the national team and corruption have resulted in the Warriors’ slump. He said:

It’s a cause for concern. It means our football standards in the country are going down. The Warriors will not be able to attract friendly matches from big and competitive games.

This will also affect our players in terms of selling them to other competitive leagues in the world.

I would attribute this slump to poor preparations and poor funding of our national team, selfish and corrupt football Administrators of our game.

But the major cause of all this was the Asiagate. Many people would want to conveniently sweep it under the carpet but it was the start of all our problems.

That is when the Warriors are beaten by unknown teams.

World Top 10: 1. Argentina, 2. France, 3. Belgium, 4. Brazil, 5. England, 6. Portugal, 7. Netherlands, 8. Spain. 9. Croatia, 10. Italy.

Africa Top 10: 1. Morocco, 2. Senegal, 3. Egypt, 4. Ivory Coast, 5. Nigeria, 6. Tunisia, 7. Algeria, 8. Cameroon, 9. Mali, 10. South Africa.

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22 Comments

Anonymous · 8 months ago
PEOPLE are so blinded by politics - am sure even if the wife is cheating i will blame politics --- soccer is a game 11 vs 11 who is best - zimbabwe have lots of talent all over the world they just cannot play as a unit - simple !! in fact when the country was doing well we still failed to win afcon or qualify for world cup etc -- what is new ?
saka · 8 months ago
Saka kuchine dzimwe dziripasi pe Zimbabwe here?
Clarence Shanyurai · 8 months ago
Poor management kubhora ZIFA, ministry of Sports zvese zvakafa hatina kna anebasa kna government yatadza kugadzira stadium chaiyo
theLastAntKing · 8 months ago
Politics rules in Zim zvebhora izvo I doubt if # 1 attends football matches. Unlike the late Bob he could come & watch the Dream Team. Bhora racho rakurwadzisa maziso. I'd rather watch Liverpool than ma wariyaz
Bryan tickey · 8 months ago
No stadiums,minister of sports, zifa should resign, zanu pf also
Bryan tickey · 8 months ago
That's reflection where we re, poor planing, administration, corruption
Account Holder · 8 months ago
Ma Warriors acho vanenge ma counterfeit
🏃 Chi baby Che Zanu 🌊 · 8 months ago
yaa romario ataura chokwadi poor leadership and lack of planning has affected the whole country at large with these outdated outfashioned leaders we are going nowhere
🐈‍⬛ · 8 months ago
Zimbabwe is last pa zvese... 🥲its a shame
shadows · 8 months ago
the ministry of sports have failed. plz panoda ppl with passion for sports. vanoziva kukosha kwemaplayers not vanokara Mari. kuzifa ngakupinde former players dzesoccer, vanoziva nezvebhora. uyo mutasa haana direction ngaabve. ppl lyk Peter, Alois, Charles mabika,. we're destroying the talents in our youths. Coventry has failed as a minister
note s20 · 8 months ago
just like their currency
tshaka de zulu · 8 months ago
pane kasong keamapiano kanonzii GOAT kkkk ndaitoti vanopenga kuimba zvembudzi kkk
tshaka de zulu · 8 months ago
mawarriors dai akachinja zita akanzii maGoat kkkkk .coz mbudzi yakabhadhara muZim .Mbudzi football team kkkkk
comments reader👨‍💻 · 8 months ago
𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆
mbudziyadura · 8 months ago
😂😂😂😂😂😂......Shem my country 🤕😭
Salted · 8 months ago
can we talk of football without a stadium are we not putting the cart before the 🐂
name · 8 months ago
we are on our way to being ranked the worst country in sports
Tkt · 8 months ago
WE the fams have always demanded we have a substantive coach for a reason. I think it's becoming clear that the So-called normalisation committee is too not interested in improving the game in Zimbabwe Mapeza I still believe is the right candidate for the Job then find him a foreign assistant 😉 Vakomana vedu vanotamba mutombo uyu, kuto tamba chaiko but Bag 💰 rino sungwa zvachose thru corrupt appointment of places or rather lemme say Imposition of players to coaches
Tafman · 8 months ago
I concur with the fact that Asiagate is the Genesis of our troubles. No corporate world will fund a team which sell games. Also the sports ministry is to blame...coz no sport is excelling in Zim. We used to be regulars of Cricket world cups, but now dhololo. Infact the country as a whole is lapsing
Nawanadem · 8 months ago
dai Paine like button ndaisa apa

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