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Sikhumbuzo Moyo Senior Sports Reporter
NEWLY elected Zifa Southern Region chairman Musa Mandaza says his board will soon be calling for an emergency general meeting that will look at, among other items, the budget.
The budget was not approved by clubs during the annual general meeting held at a city hotel two weeks ago.
“The budget should be approved and if there were some issues we need to find a solution to that. We will also discuss the 2014 calendar in terms of the fixtures and when the league ought to start,” said Mandaza, who beat his challenger Mandlenkosi Moyo.
Mandaza polled 14 votes to Moyo’s eight and will be in office until 2018.
“As a long term strategy, the league needs to have a very close relationship with the Premier Soccer League so that whatever sponsorship negotiations are there for the PSL, a piece of the cake must be extended to us because I believe we are the garden of flowers for the league,” said the veteran administrator.
Added Mandaza;
“My board will also embark on a massive education of our administrators who I believed lost quite a lot in the last three or four years, it’s part of our drive to professionalism. Remember the Central Region was created during my first tenure as Zifa chairman and we left when we had a lot that we wanted to implement and in the next four years we must be able to see through our programme,” said Mandaza who first came into football administration in 1979 with Lions Football Club.
In 1982, he was a provincial committee member for Matabeleland North before assuming the chairmanship. He later moved to secretary-general of the Southern Region and later became the chairperson.
On Sunday Mandaza was elected with ZPC (Hwange) secretary Gaylord Madunguza who is now vice-chairman, board members Tumeliso “Drogba” Ndlovu, Jabulani Chinyangarara and retired referee Brighton Malandule.
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