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Fact File: Zimbabwe
compiled by Xolani Mavolwane
Nickname Warriors  
FIFA World Ranking (Latest May 16 2007) 84
Get the latest FIFA rankings http://au.fourfourtwo.com/FIFA Rankings For May 2007
African Ranking 19  
Current Head Coach Charles Mhlauri
Most Successful Coaches since 1980
  • Sunday Marimo (2003–2004) - Coached the national team in the 2004 Nations Cup.
  • Micheck Mariomo (2000-2002) - Coached the warriors when they triumphed in the COSAFA cup in 2000.
  • Reinhard Fabisch (1992-1994) - The coach of the famous 'Dream Team' of the 90's
World Cup Qualifications none
Nations Cup Qualifications
  • Tunisia 2004
  • Egypt 2006
COSAFA Cup Successes
  • Cup winners three times (2000, 2003, 2005)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COSAFA_Cup
  • Runners up two times
CECAFA Cup Achievements Champions 1985 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CECAFA_Cup
 
Most successful players  
Peter Ndlovu – all time goal scorer with 32 goals and more than 100 caps for the national team. Played in the English Premiership when he was 17 for Coventry City. Currently playing for Memelodi Sundown in South Africa. Captained the Warriors in their last two campaigns in Tunisia and Egypt in 2004 and 2006 respectively.
 

Bruce Grobbelaar - Signed from Canadian club Vancouver Whitecaps for £250,000 by Bob Paisley in March 1981, Grobbelaar was prematurely plunged into the daunting role of succeeding Ray Clemence when the England goalkeeper left for Tottenham a few months later. But the eccentric South African-born Zimbabwe international rose to the challenge and was Liverpool's last line of defence in a stream of triumphs at home and abroad.

He made more than 600 appearances in 13 years at Anfield, which brought him 13 major medals comprising six League titles, a European Cup, three FA Cup and three League Cup, ironically a total matched by Clemence over his two-club career.

Grobbelaar's goal-line "wobble" against Roma in the dramatic 1984 European Cup Final penalty shoot-out, which prompted Graziani to miss, is an enduring memory. He joined Southampton in 1994, later playing for Plymouth, Bury, Lincoln, Motherwell, Chesham United and Northwich Victoria, coaching Zimbabwe and managing in South Africa.

His honours with Liverpool: First Division Championship 1981/82, 1982/83, 1983/84, 1985/86, 1987/88 & 1989/90, FA Cup 1986, 1989 & 1992, League Cup 1982, 1983 & 1984, European Cup 1984, Charity Shield 1982, 1986 (shared), 1988, 1989, 1990 (shared)

Benjani Mwaruwari – he is the third Zimbabwean to play in the English Premiership. He plays for Portsmouth. Before he went to England he was playing in France for Auxeurre.
Other notable players  
Adam Ndlovu Joseph Ngwenya Vitalis "Digital" Takawira Freddy Mkwesha
Norman Mapeza Joshua Mahaka Nqobizitha Ncube Moses Chunga
George Shaya Eddie Mukahanana Esrom Nyandoro  
Source: www.wikipedia.org/Zimbabwe national football team – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.htm
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