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BCC channel $200 000 to its soccer team
05 Mar 2015 at 05:40hrs | Views
BULAWAYO City Council-sponsored BCC Golden Stars will gobble a whopping $200 000 this season as the proposed $400 000 expenditure was rejected.
Golden Stars, only a Bulawayo Amateur Football League team in 2012, decided to turn professional by moving into the Bulawayo province's Division Three league in 2013 and won promotion the same year to Division Two where they only stayed for one year before making it into Division One.
The City Fathers are reportedly eager to have the team in the Premiership within the next two years and are pulling out all stops to ensure the team smoothly progresses to the top flight.
Council has resolved in principle to fully sponsor a reconstituted football club.
The Chamber Secretary's Department has provisionally budgeted $100 000 for the financial year 2015.
According to a council report, Deputy Mayor Councillor Gift Banda, a former football administrator was of the view that council was facing financial challenges; and an expenditure of $400 000 was unsustainable.
Banda said it was ideal that this should be reduced to US$200 000. He further observed that the majority of the team officials and players were Council employees, who would eventually be spending more time on football matters, and not working for Council but all the same getting paid.
"If Council wanted good results they had to engage personnel on merit; football was a full time job. With good management the team could be a source of income, some players were known to have cost US $500 000 on transfer," reads the report.
Council has pegged winning bonuses per match at $50.
"As per ZIFA dictates governing football, the Management Committee shall only receive monthly allowances which it is proposed be pegged at $150 per person. As for the Technical Team who are all Council employees except the Goalkeepers' Coach, it is proposed that they be given allowances of $500 for the Technical Manager and then $300 each for the Team Manager, the two assistant coaches and the Physiotherapist.
"The one, non-Council employee (Goalkeepers' Coach) could also be given $300 like the other assistant coaches. For the Technical Team, the winning bonuses are proposed as follows: Technical Manager - $100, Manager and Assistant Coaches - $75."
Golden Stars, only a Bulawayo Amateur Football League team in 2012, decided to turn professional by moving into the Bulawayo province's Division Three league in 2013 and won promotion the same year to Division Two where they only stayed for one year before making it into Division One.
The City Fathers are reportedly eager to have the team in the Premiership within the next two years and are pulling out all stops to ensure the team smoothly progresses to the top flight.
Council has resolved in principle to fully sponsor a reconstituted football club.
The Chamber Secretary's Department has provisionally budgeted $100 000 for the financial year 2015.
According to a council report, Deputy Mayor Councillor Gift Banda, a former football administrator was of the view that council was facing financial challenges; and an expenditure of $400 000 was unsustainable.
Banda said it was ideal that this should be reduced to US$200 000. He further observed that the majority of the team officials and players were Council employees, who would eventually be spending more time on football matters, and not working for Council but all the same getting paid.
"If Council wanted good results they had to engage personnel on merit; football was a full time job. With good management the team could be a source of income, some players were known to have cost US $500 000 on transfer," reads the report.
Council has pegged winning bonuses per match at $50.
"As per ZIFA dictates governing football, the Management Committee shall only receive monthly allowances which it is proposed be pegged at $150 per person. As for the Technical Team who are all Council employees except the Goalkeepers' Coach, it is proposed that they be given allowances of $500 for the Technical Manager and then $300 each for the Team Manager, the two assistant coaches and the Physiotherapist.
"The one, non-Council employee (Goalkeepers' Coach) could also be given $300 like the other assistant coaches. For the Technical Team, the winning bonuses are proposed as follows: Technical Manager - $100, Manager and Assistant Coaches - $75."
Source - Byo24News
