Pasuwa defends biased Warriors selection

WARRIORS coach Kallisto Pasuwa has defended his modus operandi, insisting he will continue with a selection policy that some have dismissed as biased, as long as it continues to produce results.

Speaking for the first time since a tsunami erupted over the way he chooses national team players, Pasuwa said he won't be forced into fixing what is not broken.

"Well if the biased team selection has taken us to Afcon, took us to CHAN, took our Under-23 to the African Games then I am happy to continue with that," he said.

"I am mandated to coach this team and produce results and my bosses are happy with what I have done and what I am doing.

"The nation at large is happy and celebrating and I am happy too about the progress this team continues to make."

With the Afcon 2017 on the horizon, concern has also been raised in some circles over the composition of Pasuwa's backroom staff.

Sunday "Mhofu" Chidzambwa, the first coach to lead Zimbabwe to the Afcon table, told Star FM last week that Pasuwa needs to recruit someone with Afcon experience ahead of the trip to Gabon.

"Kallisto is a very good coach, he is doing well but the only advice I can give him is I think he must involve someone who has been there before because he has never been there.

"Even if it's a player who is now coaching, he must rope him into the technical team and take it from there," said Chidzambwa who immediately ruled himself out of the equation saying, "I am too old to do that."

Pasuwa seems rather unimpressed with Chidzambwa going public with his advice.