Sundaymail Editor
Langton Nyakwenda
HARARE City Football Club is still intact and reports that the team has disbanded are work of detractors, a club spokesperson has said.
The future of the Premier Soccer League club has become a subject of speculation following reports Friday afternoon that the municipal side had been disbanded and players had been asked to find new employers.
However, club spokesperson Michael Chideme, has dismissed the reports.
“Harare City Football Club is still intact. The club has not disbanded as is being peddled in some circles,” Chideme told The Sunday Mail Online.
“Probably these are people who are bent on causing mayhem in the club’s structures. Maybe there are people who want to disturb our players so that they can sign them.
“We are still there contributing to the development of football in Zimbabwe,” Chideme said.
Sources say there is intense jockeying at the Town House over the viability of the club, given the prevailing economic situation caused by coronavirus, with some influential people at the Council pushing for the dissolution of the club.
An informed source explained the technicalities involved in the saga.
“The club is still functional and the reports about the disbandment of the team is work of detractors,” he said.
“The club can only be dissolved through a Council Recommendation; currently the council is on recess. Or by a resolution by members of Harare City Football Club but nothing of that sort has happened,” said the source.
Harare City FC chairman, Alois Masepe, was not immediately available for comment.
Harare City made their Premiership debut in 2012 and came close to winning the title the following year under the guidance of Bigboy Mawiwi.
They are the most successful club in the Chibuku Super Cup, having won the prestigious trophy twice since it’s reintroduction in 2014.
The Sunshine Boys won the Cup in 2015 and 2017.
They were finalists in 2014 and 2018.
Tinaye Agere
Online Reporter