Dynamos equip players with financial knowledge

Curtworth Masango
THE Dynamos executive is focused on having more financial workshops in the future after successfully holding one on Tuesday in Greendale.

The workshop was hosted in conjunction with Africa Mantis and was meant to equip and prepare the players for life after hanging their boots.

Many players have found themselves struggling financially, after retiring from football, having not invested wisely, during their playing days.

Speaking to H-Metro, club chairman, Isaiah Mupfurutsa, says the players were excited with the workshop.

“The major purpose of the workshop was to try to equip the players, technical team, and the administration as well, with financial tools.

“The idea was to impact members of the team with the knowledge of how best to manage their finances in terms of income and expenditure.

“The players have to be aware that there will be an end to their football playing career and they will need to find new means of surviving.

“They should be ready and knowledgeable for them to be able to plan about their future life, after playing football.

“We have seen many players who always face hard times as they become bankrupt after hanging their boots.

“We urge the boys that if they don’t utilise the chance they have by saving what they are earning now, and planning for the future, they will also find themselves in the same predicament as others who have done so.”

He added:

“So, the club will be holding more similar workshops in the future to equip the players to avoid such cases in which they will end up struggling due to lack of knowledge and exposure, as we have seen from the past.

“All these are part of the five-year strategic plan, which we gazetted in Victoria Falls.

“We will be doing them throughout the course of the plan as the financial knowledge is crucial for the future of the players.

“The club is financing these workshops. We budgeted money from our sponsors, as well as from our revenues.

“Our players were overwhelmed with the workshop, they were really excited.

“The director of the consultant firm, Mr Gabriel Chipara, actually offered to assist these players for free.”