adminclub’s participation in the Champions League last year.
Harare arbitrator NT Sambureni awarded the players a 50 percent share of the total prize money from DeMbare’s run in the 2010 African Champions League.
The Harare giants reached the mini-league phase but finished bottom of a Group A that had eventual winners TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Entente Setif of Algeria and crack Tunisian side
Esperance. Dynamos lived from hand-to-mouth as the executive struggled to ensure that the team fulfilled its fixtures.
Zifa president Cuthbert Dube also chipped in to help the Glamour Boys.
The DeMbare leadership then made an undertaken that they will give the players half of the proceeds from the prize money from Caf.
But it’s almost a year since Dynamos participated in the mini-league, under Elvis Chiweshe, and the current executive has not made moves to honours the pledge made by their predecessors.
The pledge was made by the executive led by Farai Munetsi and Mubaiwa and his team have inherited the debts. Dynamos players approached the Football Union of Zimbabwe, who in turn took the matter to the arbitrator seeking to compel the club’s executive to honour the pledge made last year.
As the applicants, FUZ, representing the Dynamos players, argued that the earnings from Caf had been deposited into the DeMbare account with CBZ in December 2010.
The applicants, however, failed to provide evidence to buttress their claims.
The players argue that US$240 000 was deposited after all the deductions had been made by Caf.
According to the judgment, the applicants submitted that they were entitled to 50 percent of the total amount that had been deposited into the account and this translates to US$120 000 which is to be shared among the players and the technical team.
The arbitrator, however, is of the view that US$123 260 was deposited into the Dynamos account and not US$240 000 as claimed by the players.
Online Reporter