Zimbabwe’s Warriors national soccer team has moved up a step in the Fifa/Coca Cola Africa rankings from 32nd to 31st place - but observers dismissed this saying the scandal-ridden team has a long way to go to the top 10.
Soccer analyst Omega Sibanda told VOA Studio 7 reporter Marvellous Mhlanga-Nyahuye that the Zimbabwe Football Association must urgently address the immigration status of Warriors Belgian coach, Tom Saintfiet, deported a few weeks ago for lack of a work permit and still awaiting his papers somewhere in the region.
The Zimbabwe Football Association has been under the spotlight over a match-fixing scandal involving games played on an Asian tour in 2009 in which key players and top managers have been implicated. A report on the alleged fixing of matches for cash from Asian bookmakers was handed to the Sports and Recreation Commission last week.
