DeMbare now a ‘Rebuilding Home’
By Geronimo News
Harare outfit Dynamos FC are paying the huge price for not having a sound junior development policy as is evidenced by the team’s player transfers which have now become a subject of ridicule.
Over the years, the Glamour Boys have seen themselves rebuilding with each coming season something which can be attributed to the team’s failure to bag the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League title which they last won in 2014 under the tutelage of Callisto Pasuwa.
With other emerging clubs like FC Platinum, Highlanders and Ngezi Platinum Stars serious on putting up sound junior structures, it seems the Blue Army has completely lost direction and football taste.
Regarded as one of the biggest clubs on the Zimbabwean football landscape, DeMbare have turned into a circus with the hiring and firing of not only players but also coaches and administrators as well being a huge subject of concern.
“I think the problem is the owners of the club, they have lost the plot, they have no vision at all. Up until we have proper development structures where we as a club identify and nurture our own youngsters to have a proper DeMbare DNA, we are not going anywhere,” said one angry supporter Lewis Mugabe from South Africa.
Another concerned fan of the club Steady Makumbirofa concurred with Mugabe saying the setting up of junior teams is the panacea to the club’s perennial near misses.
“Look my friend DeMbare should lead by example, have juniors who will be acting as feeders into the senior team because this issue of recruiting every year is not giving us results. We can hire and fire coaches but if we do not put in place sound development structures, it’s a waste of time we will play second fiddle to the platinum teams and Bosso…it’s so sad,” he noted.
Once the shining beacon of Zimbabwean football especially in the late 90s when the club reached the final of the prestigious CAF Champions League only to lose to ASEC Mimosas of Côte d’Ivoire in the final, Dynamos has now become a pale shadow of its past glory days.
