The reason for Zimbabwean players to match fix

It comes as a shock to the football world when FIFA are being investigated by FBI for corruption with key targets being Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini. As they play their money games away from home here in Zimbabwe we find ourselves once again trapped in Match fixing allegations with Edzai Kasinauyo a key suspect and Henrietta Rushwaya also having been fingered in the similar accusations.

The former Zifa boss was exonerated but it seems she had a viral plan to destroy the football empire she build at Zifa leaving with no traces of evidence or success for the adminstrators and the Warriors as she had the desire to cripple our domestic football after the Asiagate.

Now the question that comes to peoples's minds will be what is the reason for match fixing?

The highest footballers in England are Wayne Rooney who is paid £300 000 weekly plus bonuses and other brand endorsements from Nike.

Yaya Toure renowned for throwing tantraums at his birthday when his Manchester City forgot to send him a cake are both Sergio Aguero earning £240 000 per week plus other winning bonuses. At Chelsea Hazard and Fabregas earns £200 000 per week plus other brand endorsements.

In South Africa Teko Modise last year was earning R450 000 per month with other players reported to go home with a low pay of R5 000 per month.

With Zimbabwe clubs like Dynamos, Caps, Highlanders, Chicken Inn, FC Platinum, How Mine and Harare City not paying enough salaries that come close to their counterparts in South Africa or even in Europe. The report from Metro B last season, indicated that Zimbabwe players were paid salaries of between $400 to $1000 per month with winning bonuses pegged at between $250-$400 depending with teams as it varies from team to team.

With a guaranteed salary of $400-$1000 surely Zimbabwe players are playing football that matches their salaries as the top goalscorer fails to reach 20 goals in a season.

If you compare with their counterparts in South Africa, their lowest paid players are earning R5000 per week which is R20 000 per month and convert it to US dollars it will be $10 000 as compared to Zimbabwean players who take home $400-$1000.

So with the salary analysis between England , South Africa and Zimbabwe, will these poor salaries lead to match fixing and poor perfomances?
As we train young players, i m reminded that i must train players to be passionate and money will be a reward for their perfomance as its now Viral to football development. The beautiful game must be played without prioritising money but entertaining the football supporters.

Once again Zimbabwe football is intensive care with a Virus infection threatening the careers of our talented players.

The coach's match planning is now pointless as Fixers and players have their own game plan. It extremely makes a coach's job difficult when someone is interfering with team tactics to influence results.

I hope and trust that ZIFA will make an effort to prosecute individuals who are killing our game.
 
Lord Morris Kakunguwo , Zimbabwe Football Philosopher, CEO and Founder of Zimbabwe Football Development Academy-Centre of Football Excellence 2014 and iTouch Guru writes in his capacity as a passionate football coach. Comments and feedback can be emailed on lordmore2002@yahoo.co.uk