Zimbabwe National Soccer Team Head Coach, Baltemar Brito
By Staff Reporter
The Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has appointed Baltemar Brito as the head coach of the senior men’s soccer team with effect from September 21 until June 2024.
The Highlanders coach will be assisted by Bongani Mafu and Dynamos coach Genesis Mangombe.
According to the Normalisation Committee, the trio was given the job “after an extensive recruitment and consultative process based on regional, continental, and global confederations’ guidelines”.
The Normalisation Committee said the coaches’ contracts will end at the same time with its mandate so that the next board will have the opportunity to recruit its own coaches.
The Portuguese gaffer and his assistants’ first assignment will be the invitational match to celebrate Botswana’s Independence Day on 30 September. Thereafter, they will have to begin working on creating a team to compete in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in November.
“ZIFA would like to thank Highlanders FC and Dynamos for allowing their employees to serve the nation. The coaches will remain with their clubs, and will be reporting for national assignments as and when required to do so,” reads the statement.
The Committee is still selecting other national team coaches and will make announcements in due course.
“The association pleads for the nation’s patience as it continues with the recruitment of remaining national teams coaches.”
Zimbabwe is back to international football after the ban by FIFA was lifted.
