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AMHVoices:Choose right candidate for Zifa post

AMH Voices
This is the last time for the Zifa councillors who have been given the mandate to cast their votes to chose the most powerful man at number 53 Livingstone House in Harare.

This is the last time for the Zifa councillors who have been given the mandate to cast their votes to chose the most powerful man at number 53 Livingstone House in Harare.

BY LEONARD KONI,OUR READER

If these councillors were following the sentiments of millions of football lovers who have been expressing their views about who should lead the troubled Zifa, I think they will not repeat the same mistake they did previously by choosing a person who had no passion of developing football in this country.

These Zifa councillors will carry the day for all soccer lovers in the country on December 5 2015, but these 58 people must not mess around with the minds of millions of soccer lovers.

We have read the different manifestos of the aspiring candidates and it is up to councillors to chose who should lead the football fraternity.

I will reiterate that our football association does not need a rich person, but a good administrator who has what it takes to lead and improve the way local football is run. In the past our football was being run like a tuck shop where funds were being abused and unaccounted for.

Change must come and a tried and tested person who has vast experience in running football at grassroots level must be voted in. We do not want chancers who go around bragging that they do have money to run the association. Football itself is enough to source revenue from the corporate world if well managed.

I am also of the opinion that the Zifa constitution must be amended to give people who have soccer at heart powers to vote, because surely the destiny and future of our football cannot be decided by a few individual councillors who can easily be bribed.