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Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
PROPHETIC Healing Deliverance Ministries’ leader Prophet Walter Magaya has again come to the rescue of broke Zifa by funding the Warriors’ trip to Lesotho for the second leg of the African Nations Championship final qualifier in Maseru on Sunday.
The Warriors will fly out of the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport this morning to Lesotho via OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, where they will catch a connecting flight to Maseru later in the day.
Zifa communications manager Xolisani Gwesela refused to reveal the source of the funds that saw the squad’s trip only confirmed very late yesterday as chief executive officer Jonathan Mashingaidze spent the better part of the day in marathon meetings with potential sponsors.
“I’m afraid we can’t reveal where we got funding from, but all I can tell you is that a 26-member delegation led by the Zifa Bulawayo chairman Washington Chimanda as head of delegation will leave tomorrow morning,” said Gwesela last night.
They will leave aboard an Air Zimbabwe flight.
Impeccable sources told Chronicle Sport that the clergyman had once again extended his benevolence to the Zifa cause as it became clear that the association had no dime in their account to purchase tickets.
Zifa claimed they raised just over $20,000 from the gate takings on Sunday; a figure that is already being queried after, according to Zifa, 6,121 fans paid their way into Barbourfields Stadium to watch the first leg last Sunday.
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