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Rich Zifa donor cancels sponsorship
04 Apr 2016 at 13:23hrs | Views
"I gave Pasuwa $3000 for lunch". - Sir Wicknell.
ZIFA benefactor Sir Wicknell has cancelled his sponsorship for the Zimbabwe Men's senior soccer team, the Warriors.
This follows an article that was published in the Sunday Mail of 3 April titled ‘Pasuwa's Salary Hell', where the weekly revealed that the Warriors Coach, Pasuwa had gone for three months without receiving his salary and faced possible eviction from his lodgings in Grendale.
Sir Wicknell expressed his anger early today via his Facebook page.
In the post, he expressed disappointment for the Warriors Coach Kalisto Pasuwa whom he said showed a lot of disrespect for him by running to the press.
"Pasuwa is not the only headache ZIFA has so for him to go to the press and start telling them about his daughter and his rental issues in Greendale before telling me or waiting for me to resolve the issue is gross disrespect.
"Such behaviour displays an ungrateful person and is totally unacceptable in my world. He drives a brand new TOYOTA that I bought , a car that I see being driven only by executives," he said.
However, he said he would honour his commitment to pay Pasuwa's salary for the next one year -
Wicknell said, "To cut a long story short THIS OFFICIALLY MARKS THE END of my sponsorship for the WARRIORS for 2016. It takes a lot of love to spend 600 thousand dollars on people you don't know or are even related to so you will all appreciate my reasons for reacting this way in the circumstances."
ZIFA benefactor Sir Wicknell has cancelled his sponsorship for the Zimbabwe Men's senior soccer team, the Warriors.
This follows an article that was published in the Sunday Mail of 3 April titled ‘Pasuwa's Salary Hell', where the weekly revealed that the Warriors Coach, Pasuwa had gone for three months without receiving his salary and faced possible eviction from his lodgings in Grendale.
Sir Wicknell expressed his anger early today via his Facebook page.
In the post, he expressed disappointment for the Warriors Coach Kalisto Pasuwa whom he said showed a lot of disrespect for him by running to the press.
"Pasuwa is not the only headache ZIFA has so for him to go to the press and start telling them about his daughter and his rental issues in Greendale before telling me or waiting for me to resolve the issue is gross disrespect.
"Such behaviour displays an ungrateful person and is totally unacceptable in my world. He drives a brand new TOYOTA that I bought , a car that I see being driven only by executives," he said.
However, he said he would honour his commitment to pay Pasuwa's salary for the next one year -
Wicknell said, "To cut a long story short THIS OFFICIALLY MARKS THE END of my sponsorship for the WARRIORS for 2016. It takes a lot of love to spend 600 thousand dollars on people you don't know or are even related to so you will all appreciate my reasons for reacting this way in the circumstances."
Source - Online
