Dynamos executive to blame for team’s exit from CAF tournament
Murape Murape, who recently quit as Dynamos assistant coach, has blamed the club’s bosses for ruining their CAF Confederations Cup chances. Speaking on the Ollah 7 Podcast Show, he told everyone how badly the club leaders handled things.
The team started well by beating Zambia’s ZESCO United, but everything went wrong when they played Orapa United in Botswana. Murape says the club bosses didn’t give the team what they needed to win.
“I believe executive set us up to fail, they did not want the team to succeed and go into the mini league. Ukaona uchiomerwa nekuenda paBotswana, ko kuzoenda kuEgypt,” Murape said. He pointed out that if they couldn’t handle going to Botswana, they’d never manage trips to Egypt or Nigeria.
The team’s problems in Botswana were really bad. They stayed in a cheap lodge that didn’t even serve food. When the club brought in outside food, players got sick before their big match. Things were so bad that coaches had to pay for fuel with their own money to drive to Botswana.
Murape, who was Zimbabwe’s best player in 2007, says the current club leaders don’t know what they’re doing. “When I look at the Dynamos executive, what they are only good at is to fire coaches but yet they are doing nothing in terms of their primary duties,” he said.
He’s especially angry with Bernard Marriott, the club chairman, saying he makes choices that hurt the team. All these problems led to Dynamos getting knocked out of the tournament by Orapa United in September.
This mess shows how one of Zimbabwe’s biggest football teams is falling apart because of bad leadership. When coaches have to use their own money for team trips, and players get sick from bad food before big games, something’s really wrong. Murape quit because he’d seen enough, and now he’s telling everyone what’s really going on at Dynamos.
