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Innocent Kurira, Sports Reporter
THE Marvelous Nakamba Foundation (MNF) has stepped up preparations for the inaugural hosting of a national girls’ football tournament.
Nakamba through his foundation promised to have the tournament in November. The Aston Villa midfielder is in the country for a few days having taken advantage of the break in the English Premier League for the World Cup. He is expected to meet with his team to agree on the new date seeing that November is just left with 10 days, which makes it impossible to have the tournament this month since there are logistics involved.
“We are running around trying to put some final touches. We will share more details during the course of this week,” said Nduduzo Sibanda.
In June, Nakamba hosted a boys’ competition at White City Stadium and hinted he had plans to also host a girls’ competition. Nakamba, through his foundation announced in September that the inaugural edition will consist of eight teams drawn from four of Zimbabwe’s women football leagues.
The foundation was established in 2019, as a way of giving back to the community using the power of sport and education. To date, the foundation has paid school fees for over 1 500 pupils countrywide, hosted the under 17 boy’s invitational tournament in June 2022 and is in the process of constructing the Nakamba Sports Complex among other projects.
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