Newly-appointed Black Stars coach, Milovan Rajevac, will be presented with his first test when he leads the team to clash with the Warriors of Zimbabwe at the Cape Coast Stadium on Saturday.
The Serbian coach, who is making a return to the top job after 11 years as the replacement for Charles Kwablan Akonnor, will be under huge pressure to make a good impression and kick-start the team’s engine in the qualifying campaign after their recent setback.
Similarly, newly-appointed Zimbabwe coach, Norman Mapeza, will be aiming to lift the Warriors from the bottom of the group log in his first match in charge of the team.
Mapeza was appointed caretaker of the southern African side following the dismissal last month of Zdravko Logarusic, and he returns to the team almost 10 years after ending his international career which saw him making 92 appearances for the Warriors.
During Rajevac’s first tenure, the Black Stars had a ruthless team which could take on any opponent in the world, but this time around the 67-year-old Serbian will miss some of the marquee names that made Ghana a fearsome side under his charge. Nonetheless, he will be expected to inspire the André Ayew-led team to victory on Saturday to put their qualifying campaign back on track after getting off to a winning start on home soil with a 1-0 victory against Ethiopia before losing by a similar margin away to South Africa.
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