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Methembe Ndlovu completes 2 year Asiagate ban
25 Nov 2013 at 04:30hrs | Views
FORMER Highlanders mentor, Methembe 'Mayor' Ndlovu has completed his Asiagate two-year suspension.
"Methembe Ndlovu has been cleared. He served his ban and we wrote him a letter about a month ago informing him about the development," said Zifa spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela.
"He even enquired from Zifa asking if he is now free to participate in all football activities and we gave him the green light because he has served his two year suspension," says Gwesela.
Coaches, administrators and players banned from football for a period of less than two years for their role in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal will be free to return to the game next season.
Among those set to benefit are former national coaches Methembe Ndlovu and Norman Mapeza.
Their punishment was with effect from 2011 when they were suspended.
Gwesela said they would have to wait for official communication from Zifa before they can take to soccer stadia.
"I can confirm that Ndlovu is free to coach and we have already communicated with him. We will be writing to everyone whose time is up so that they can go back to the soccer field and work.
"There could be technicalities here and there so it is important that they get it from us so that we ensure indeed they have complied with terms of their punishment," said Gwesela.
Ndlovu served a two-year ban.
Mapeza who coached the Warriors was down for six months.
Others set to return to the game are national team physiotherapist Lloyd Maungwa and team medic Mordecai Sachikonye.
Gwesela could not commit himself on the issue of those who were supposed to receive suspended sentences on condition that they paid fines.
The Asiagate case is yet to be finalised by Fifa who are still looking at Zifa's investigation with some players and coaches having challenged Zifa sanctions.
Zimbabwe coaches and players confirmed that they had been paid to lose matches in Asia between 2007 and 2010 in a syndicate masterminded by the former Zifa CEO Henrietta Rushwaya.
"Methembe Ndlovu has been cleared. He served his ban and we wrote him a letter about a month ago informing him about the development," said Zifa spokesperson Xolisani Gwesela.
"He even enquired from Zifa asking if he is now free to participate in all football activities and we gave him the green light because he has served his two year suspension," says Gwesela.
Coaches, administrators and players banned from football for a period of less than two years for their role in the Asiagate match-fixing scandal will be free to return to the game next season.
Among those set to benefit are former national coaches Methembe Ndlovu and Norman Mapeza.
Their punishment was with effect from 2011 when they were suspended.
Gwesela said they would have to wait for official communication from Zifa before they can take to soccer stadia.
"I can confirm that Ndlovu is free to coach and we have already communicated with him. We will be writing to everyone whose time is up so that they can go back to the soccer field and work.
"There could be technicalities here and there so it is important that they get it from us so that we ensure indeed they have complied with terms of their punishment," said Gwesela.
Ndlovu served a two-year ban.
Mapeza who coached the Warriors was down for six months.
Others set to return to the game are national team physiotherapist Lloyd Maungwa and team medic Mordecai Sachikonye.
Gwesela could not commit himself on the issue of those who were supposed to receive suspended sentences on condition that they paid fines.
The Asiagate case is yet to be finalised by Fifa who are still looking at Zifa's investigation with some players and coaches having challenged Zifa sanctions.
Zimbabwe coaches and players confirmed that they had been paid to lose matches in Asia between 2007 and 2010 in a syndicate masterminded by the former Zifa CEO Henrietta Rushwaya.
Source - chronicle
