Chunga excited with Buffaloes challenge Moses Chunga
Moses Chunga

Moses Chunga

Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
VETERAN coach Moses Chunga is excited to get new challenges and hopes to lift Buffaloes in the league home stretch after taking over the reins at the Mutare outfit today.
Chunga, who replaced Luke Masomere, is expected to be officially unveiled as the new man in charge at Watungwa Watungwa this morning before conducting his first training session.

Buffaloes turned to the former DeMbare and CAPS United coach to lead their team until the end of the season following a faltering run in which they were hamstrung by financial problems.

Chunga, who had a troubled stay at Chiredzi, yesterday told The Herald that he was looking forward to moving on with his career after being elbowed out of the project he spearheaded at Chiredzi.

“I am going there to help my brothers out after the position was left vacant following the resignation of Luke Masomere. I always say our everyday life is a challenge, but it’s how you handle the situations that matters.

“This appointment is no different, it has its challenges. I will have to sit down with my colleagues to map the way forward.
“My mandate for the next three months that I will be with them is to win games and to make sure that the team is safe from relegation. We have to finish in a respectable position,” said Chunga.

Buffaloes are currently eighth on the log standings with 29 points from 21 starts.
Chunga will work with Timothy Masachi, who has been with the club in the last two seasons as deputy to Masomere and Saul Chaminuka.

Chunga said he was happy to move on although it appears his heart is still in the Lowveld where he had spearheaded the project to prop up a community team.
The outspoken coach launched a scathing attack on the football leadership in Zimbabwe, which he blamed for the deteriorating standards.

“We are in serious trouble as a footballing nation because some of the people at the helm of our administration are in advanced stage of ignorance, people who are completely out of touch with reality yet they claim to know all.

“We have leaders who don’t value the basic needs of their players. They don’t even care where the team is going to camp, what they are going to eat while in camp and even how they are going to travel for matches.

“It’s a pity our football is being led by such people.
“It’s not only at Chiredzi. This is a national crisis, we have seen it even at my beloved blue-and-white (Dynamos), one of the biggest teams in Southern Africa.

“That is why I decided to let sleeping dogs lie at Chiredzi but I am sure with the calibre of the leadership, there is always a danger that there could be no Premiership football in the Lowveld next year.
“That region was lucky to be one of the smallest towns to have two teams in the Premiership. Instead of ridiculing Bambo and fighting petty wars, the business

community should have come in full support of the two projects. It seems the people don’t appreciate the value of playing in the Premiership,” said Chunga.

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