BancABC stand by DeMbare

partnership to try and help the Harare giants bring sanity in their boardroom.

Problems exploded in the Glamour Boys’ camp on Saturday when the club’s board of directors overwhelmingly voted to boot out the executive led by Harare business executive Farai Munetsi.
Yesterday, BancABC said they knew the challenges in the Dyna-mos camp, when they decided to sponsor the Glamour Boys, and it was their mission to try and help the country’s biggest club to sort out the challenges in their administrative structures.

BancABC will pour US$100 000 into Dynamos, until the remainder of this season, in a sponsorship package that will see the bank pay the salaries of the players and the technical staff while also providing kit, transport and training equipment.

The bank also struck a similar deal with Highlanders.
There have been fears that Dynamos’ deal could be affected by the problems which always haunt the Harare giants and, the decision by the board of directors to fire the executive on Saturday, heightened those concerns.

But BancABC country head of marketing, Desmund Ali, yesterday reassured the Dynamos family that they were committed to their partnership with the Harare giants for the long haul.
“We believe that rather than moving away from Dynamos, when it is facing challenges, we will be better off helping them try and resolve those challenges,” said Ali.
“It is against this background that we are trying, as the sponsors, to organise a seminar for the club where issues related to administration and management will be addressed.

“We believe we have to empower all the leaders at the club with the right management skills so that they can use such skills to have sanity in their boardroom and push their brand forward.”
Ali said BancABC were well aware that Dynamos were a team that was at risk of being hit by internal wrangles when they decided to partner them.

“The challenge is to play our part in ensuring that the club has the right structures and their administrators are equipped with the right skills to manage an institution of that magnitude and take it forward,” said Ali.
“We are not abandoning ship because we are committed to ma-king a difference and we believe that we can achieve something if we work together.
“Problems will always be there in football, but they need to be managed.”