::Eddie Chivero said ZIFA is barbaric ::Pamire want an urgent indaba Ex-Zifa president Vincent Pamire has called for a “Soccer Indaba” at which solutions to the future of the game will be arrived at with the involvement of all stakeholders. Such a gathering, he said, should not be a platform for an individual to involve his cronies but the way to go would be to have a broad view from the participants who would then brainstorm and seek to find solutions. Pamire made this call yesterday as a way forward for the troubled sport and national association was sought. “The way forward is to have a ‘Football Indaba.’ We don’t want a situation where people will look for their own friends. It should be broad-based. “We need those involved today, those that have been there before, sponsors, former players, club members and journalists, we all have a role to play,” said the former Zifa and Zimbabwe Saints official. Pamire, under whom Zimbabwe qualified for the country’s maiden appearance at the Africa Cup of Nations in 2003 for the 2004 competition, said the nation was concerned about the game and it would not make sense for soccer people to keep quiet when things were not going well. “Soccer is everyone’s game, debate should be allowed. If one is ignorant or arrogant he should not run soccer, it is not a personal commodity,” said Pamire. He said he was disappointed with what he was seeing in football of late where anyone with a different view was deemed an enemy. Such tendencies were moving football backwards at the wrong time. “We have had a few happy moments to build on. But what we see of Zimbabwean football is the game being on reverse gear, it is not taking us anywhere. “What soccer needs is a leadership that listens and sees. We meet and tell them where they are going wrong but they seem not to learn at all. You can’t know it all. “The truth is they must surrender to the nation. “Failing is not an offence but what they are doing is now wrong because they are aware that they are not doing well,” said the respected former Saints administrator. Meanwhile, Eddie Chivero is up in arms with Zifa for requisitioning $184 000 for the trip to Guinea. “For Zifa to say they needed that much was not fair. “Their only worry for that trip was the airfares and allowances for players as the hosts were taking care of the team’s accommodation. “I feel that figure was too high just like the $234 000 claimed by the national association for the match against Egypt. Some of the unrealistic figures tend to scare those intending to help Zifa,” said Chivero of the Zimbabwe National Team Soccer Supporters Association. He called on the Zifa leadership to step down. At $50 a day, Zifa paid the players a total of $8 750 in daily allowances in seven days with a technical team of seven gobbling $4 900 with $37 500 in appearance fees and an additional $4 000 more for the coaches. A Zimbabwe delegation of 34 would have paid $45 220 for tickets to Conakry, Guinea via Senegal. Camping for the match would not have consumed $40 000 for four nights and expenditure on those not on the catered party in Guinea would have cost less than $10 000. A rough estimate is that Zifa needed less than $150 000. “Honestly Fifa were here and they called on us to be prudent with our finances. Did we need a bloated travelling party and according to our research even $150 000 would have been too much. So why did they need $184 000 when all the national team players were already in camp,” said Chivero.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:59:36 +0000
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