adminhere comprising two technicians to install a state-of-the-art player registration system and equipment worth US$80 000.
Tunisian technicians, Khalil Mahjoub and Wissem Aloui, arrived in the country yesterday for one-week attachment which will see them installing the equipment and software, which will capture all the data required for club licenses.
The system will also work closely with the new electronic Transfer Matching System which was introduced by Fifa.
The system will keep a database of all players (amateur and professional) which will also help in the management of matches.
It tracks the movement of players from one club to another club and will solve the problems of double registration which have always dodged local football.
Zifa chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze said it was all part of professionalising the local football.
“Fifa have been supporting us all the way as they try to help us turn professional.
“It is a unique donation of US$80 000 and we are one of the first few countries to benefit from this.
“And from here the technicians will be going to South Africa.
“The equipment will serve registration of all the football league of our affiliates. The system is foolproof with no errors and the issue of players securing two licenses would be a thing of the past.
‘The players’ passports would be clear and will clearly shows which club a player has played for first all his movement,” said Mashingaidze.
He said it will be a huge boost in the administration of the domestic game.
“Even in competitions like Cup Games it will show all the history.
“It rejects wrong information and once a player has been entered once you cannot enter fresh data or tamper with anything.
This will also help with age cheating.
“It is a delicate process and few people will have access to the room where the equipment is being set at Zifa House and our TMS officer, Timothy Mazhindu, is being trained on how to use the equipment.
“Cases like the one involving Hardbody would be history as all the data could have been captured accurately.
“It will also produce licenses for players and officials and will also produce accreditation cards for the media and other delegates” said Mashingaidze.
On Friday, administrators from the Premiership and all the regions are expected to meet the experts who in turn will train them on how to fill out the forms that they will have to produce to Zifa for registration.
Since the historic visit by Fifa president Sepp Blatter in July during the Cosafa tournament, Zifa have enjoyed support from the Fifa with experts in different areas coming here to impart their expertise.
In August, Mark Goddard, general manager of the Fifa Transfer Matching System, attended a high level seminar held in the resort Victoria Falls and addressed the general secretaries and chief executives from Eastern and Southern African countries.
He said the world body had now made it a legal requirement for associations to have a TMS manager in their offices. Zifa have since appointed Mazhindu as the officer to smoothly run the associations’ transfers.
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