The ZIFA Normalization Committee has appointed former Zimbabwe Saints player Jethro Hunidzarira as the new technical director.

Hunidzarira was unveiled on Tuesday at a press briefing held in the capital.

In his address to the media, the 61-year-old CAF A license holder who comes in as a replacement for Wilson Mutekede emphasized more on grassroots football.

"What we need is a proper grass-root structure where we have leagues from regional then provincial level then going into the national.

"For us to have grassroots we need to have the coaches and these coaches are produced by instructors, so we are going to have an instructor in every Province who will train these junior coaches.

"So there is a need for us to work hand in hand with the Ministry of Sport and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education so that we harness these junior players.

"We are going to have a Memorandum of Understanding with these two strategic Ministries," he said

Hunidzarira has been practising coaching in Botswana for the past 20 years, providing consultancy services for several clubs.

He added that there is a need to have competitive junior football leagues which then makes it easy to have good players.

"We want to have junior leagues from regional level to national level, whilst this happens we will have talent-identifying coaches in each Province to help in scouting good players.

"Our aspiration is to have centres of excellence in each Province where players can gather and compete, let's say every weekend.

"All those players selected will then go to schools of excellence where we will have most of our talented players learning as they train.

"This will help us to have good junior players which will then help us to build strong national teams.

"We will have our own ZIFA national academy which will have the best players for each age group," he said.