Zimbabwe: Not Time to Relax - It Is Game On

Don't count your chickens before they hatch, so they say. That is the situation in which the Warriors of Zimbabwe find themselves in, in respect of their journey to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals.

The whole nation is excited that the Warriors need only just one point in their remaining two matches to make the trip to Cameroon, but the truth is that the Warriors are not yet at the finals as they have not yet picked up that vital point. There are no written guarantees in football, and on that premise, Zimbabweans should start celebrating only after their team has qualified as at the moment the job is only three-quarters done and not yet accomplished. History has its own uses and history tells us that the Warriors have been in this situation before and failed to negotiate the corner. Needing three points to qualify for the 1992 Afcon finals, a last-minute blunder by goalkeeper John Sibanda saw Congo equalise for a 2-2 draw and that sent Zimbabwe out of the tournament.

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