adminSOME time last year during this period, the nation was basking in the glory of an impressive Championships of African Football (Chan) campaign, which looked like the platform on which the country was to build a competitive national team.
Just when we thought we had taken two steps forward after the impressive Chan performance, the stage on which common sense dictated that we should build our future plans, a few months down the line we took three steps backward and bowed out of qualification of the continental Afcon soccer competition at the first hurdle.
It was an epitome of the brutal truth that our beloved national team had once again conspired to disappoint with a preliminary stage first round exit from the Afcon qualifiers that are now almost coming to an end in Equatorial Guinea.
In our anguish soon after our exit, we all agreed that things cannot get any worse than this in our football and a solution, no matter how radical, as long as it helps our situation, must be found.
For a serious football playing nation that we were when the best on the continent would not opt for us as opponents, surely failing to make it past the first round of the preliminary stage of the qualifiers was indicative of a nation that has lost direction.
Be that as it may, it was known to all and sundry that the humiliating exit from Afcon qualifiers came with it a lengthy absence from international competitions.
In this lengthy absence from competitive international tournaments, the progressive ones in our midst were quick see the need to start doing the right thing from then on.
Common sense dictated that we should go back to the drawing board and go on a soul searching experience that will help redefine our objectives as a football playing nation.
But a good number of months have passed since that humiliating Afcon exit, we are still quarrelling about whether Government should disband Zifa or not.
A good number of months have passed and we are still quarrelling about the repercussions of Government disbandment of Zifa. Indeed, a good number of months have passed, here we are still finding pleasure in playing the blame game and taking every other opportunity to undress each other in public domain.
It begs for the question: Are we a Warrior that we always claim to be?
That Cuthbert Elkanah Dube and his cronies must do the honourable thing of stepping down is agreeable to all soccer loving people in this country but it is equally important to look beyond Dube and his surrogates.
In fact, it is surprising that after all that barrage that came with shenanigans at medical aid concern PSMAS, he still had the tenacity to stand up and seek another term as a leader of an organisation that depends on corporate partnership and leniency in order for it to survive.
Now that he is once again at the centre of concerted criticism, one wonders what is it that Dube gets from football that makes him fail to see the right thing to do, that he should just step down.
It cannot be the love of the game alone!
Online Reporter