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Chiyangwa chairs first Zifa assembly
03 Jun 2016 at 06:34hrs | Views
PHILIP Chiyangwa presides over the Zifa assembly for the first time tomorrow, six months after taking over local football's top seat.
The match-fixing scandal that rocked Zifa ahead of the 2017 Afcon qualifiers against Swaziland and claimed the scalp of board member Edzai Kasinauyo and Warriors' assistant coach Nation Dube is among key issues to be discussed at the meeting.
Besides coming up with a way forward in terms of match-fixing, the meeting will also seek to find solutions to Zifa's financial challenges.
Zifa is reeling over $5 million debts, and councillors will be eager to know what Chiyangwa, who promised to clear the arrears, has done during his six-month spell.
Another key matter most are keen to know will be venues and dates for the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League play-offs.
In their midyear meeting last year, Zifa resolved that two PSL teams would be relegated and the same number promoted into the 16-team league starting from the end of the 2016 season.
Presently, four teams are demoted and a similar number promoted from the four First Division leagues; sparking an outcry from the Premier Soccer League as this alters 25 percent of the league each season.
In 2011, world governing football body Fifa officials Ashford Mamelodi, the Southern African region development officer, development officer for Africa, Francisco Bruscolli and consultant Brendan Menton said it was untenable to have 25 percent of teams in the top tier being relegated.
The topflight could not implement Fifa's recommendations without Zifa amending its constitution to embrace the changes.
Zifa amended its constitution in 2013 to include a section on relegation and promotion.
The football mother body indicated that it would setup a National First Division League to be a PSL feeder, but this has not happened due to lack of resources.
As a result, winners of the four Division One soccer leagues, the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Central Regions, will at the end of the 2016 season, compete in play-offs for the two promotional slots.
Tomorrow's meeting will also affirm Peter Dube, the PSL chairman, as a member of the Zifa executive committee.
Dube was elected in March this year following a landslide victory over Dynamos president Kenny Mubaiwa after incumbent PSL boss Twine Phiri was booted out.
Chiyangwa is also expected to brief the council on the progress made in identifying the association's general secretary following his executive's decision not to renew Jonathan Mashingaidze's contract when it expired in April. Joseph Mamutse has been acting as Zifa's general secretary.
The match-fixing scandal that rocked Zifa ahead of the 2017 Afcon qualifiers against Swaziland and claimed the scalp of board member Edzai Kasinauyo and Warriors' assistant coach Nation Dube is among key issues to be discussed at the meeting.
Besides coming up with a way forward in terms of match-fixing, the meeting will also seek to find solutions to Zifa's financial challenges.
Zifa is reeling over $5 million debts, and councillors will be eager to know what Chiyangwa, who promised to clear the arrears, has done during his six-month spell.
Another key matter most are keen to know will be venues and dates for the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League play-offs.
In their midyear meeting last year, Zifa resolved that two PSL teams would be relegated and the same number promoted into the 16-team league starting from the end of the 2016 season.
Presently, four teams are demoted and a similar number promoted from the four First Division leagues; sparking an outcry from the Premier Soccer League as this alters 25 percent of the league each season.
In 2011, world governing football body Fifa officials Ashford Mamelodi, the Southern African region development officer, development officer for Africa, Francisco Bruscolli and consultant Brendan Menton said it was untenable to have 25 percent of teams in the top tier being relegated.
The topflight could not implement Fifa's recommendations without Zifa amending its constitution to embrace the changes.
Zifa amended its constitution in 2013 to include a section on relegation and promotion.
The football mother body indicated that it would setup a National First Division League to be a PSL feeder, but this has not happened due to lack of resources.
As a result, winners of the four Division One soccer leagues, the Southern, Eastern, Northern and Central Regions, will at the end of the 2016 season, compete in play-offs for the two promotional slots.
Tomorrow's meeting will also affirm Peter Dube, the PSL chairman, as a member of the Zifa executive committee.
Dube was elected in March this year following a landslide victory over Dynamos president Kenny Mubaiwa after incumbent PSL boss Twine Phiri was booted out.
Chiyangwa is also expected to brief the council on the progress made in identifying the association's general secretary following his executive's decision not to renew Jonathan Mashingaidze's contract when it expired in April. Joseph Mamutse has been acting as Zifa's general secretary.
Source - chronicle
