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Ricky Zililo Senior Sports Reporter
THE Zifa board will this afternoon hold an emergency meeting at the Zifa Village in Mount Hampden with the national team structures set to top the agenda.After the meeting, the Zifa president Cuthbert Dube is expected to announce coaches for all national teams.

No national team coach has a contract with the football association.

This publication has it on good authority that the general consensus is not to extend Ian Gorowa’s stay and some board members are of the view that only a foreign coach is the solution to Zimbabwe’s football crisis.

Unconfirmed reports last night were that Gorowa had tendered his resignation or opted out of consideration for future engagements.

Sources say Callisto Pasuwa will be unveiled as the Under-23 coach with Jairos Tapera retaining his Under-20 boys coaching job while Saul Chaminuka will take charge of the boys’ Under-17 team.

Tapera’s biggest assignment is expected to be the December Region Five Youth Games to be held in Bulawayo.

He is believed to have already identified some of the players though questions are being raised over the eligibility of some of the boys who are said to be over 20.

“The Zifa board members will meet for the board’s special meeting at Zifa Village tomorrow and among other issues to be discussed is the finalisation of the report to be presented in Parliament this Thursday to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee. The long awaited appointments of national teams’ technical departments are on the agenda as well as the 2014-18 strategic plan,” said Xolisani Gwesela, the Zifa communications manager.

Other members of the board are vice-president Omega Sibanda, Bernard Gwarada, Tavengwa Hara, Fungai Chihuri, John Phiri, women’s football boss Miriam Sibanda and the Premier Soccer League chairman Twine Phiri.

There will be no action for senior national teams unless Zifa gets friendly matches since the Warriors were embarrassingly booted out in the first round of the 2015 Afcon preliminary qualifier by Tanzania after a 2-3 aggregate defeat last month.

The senior women’s team was knocked out of the 2014 African Women’s Championship after losing to Zambia 0-2 on aggregate.