ZIFA president Nqobile Magwizi explains path to get selected for senior national teams

Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Nqobile Magwizi has explained that selection into junior national teams does not guarantee promotion to the senior national teams in the future.

The association recently re-established junior national team structures from the Under-15s to the Under-23s for both boys and girls as part of efforts to strengthen player development.

Writing in his Inside ZIFA column in The Sunday Mail, Magwizi said the junior national team set-ups are intended to widen the pool of players available for the senior national teams rather than guarantee every youngster a place at the highest level.

“A camp should help a player improve. A competition should give our technical teams a clearer picture of what that player can do and where more support is needed.

“Those lessons should shape the work before the next assignment, so that players move through the age groups with stronger skills, a better understanding of the game and more experience of international football.

“We cannot promise that every young player will become a senior international.

“Players develop at different rates, and their journeys will differ. What we can do is work towards a system that gives more talented young Zimbabweans a fair opportunity to progress.”

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