Chronicle Editor
Tadious Manyepo, Harare Bureau
THE new interim executive of the Zimbabwe Women’s Soccer League (ZWSL) has pledged to professionalise the game ahead of the start of the topflight season next month.
The move follows the removal of Barbara Chikosi, her deputy Wilbert Rambanapasi, and members of the board through a vote of no confidence by stakeholders, including clubs.
They felt the league was being run as a social without a constitution rather than on a professional level.
Theresa Maguraushe was chosen to lead the interim executive, deputised by Faith Drive Queens director, Dumisani Sithole.
“The Women’s Super League kicks off on April 13 and we are going to professionalise it. Previously, women’s football’s top league has been running without fourth officials,” said Sithole.
“It has been more of an amateur league and at the end of the day, the league was struggling to hold end of year awards.
“Players have been playing without licences and it has been an animal farm, but we have put together measures to help professionalise the game.
“We have already paid the referees in advance until the end of the season.
“We have introduced the fourth officials and they too have been paid till the end of the season.
“We are also going to be registering the players the same way the Premier Soccer League does through the Fifa Connect System.”
Sithole said they will hold workshops in partnership with the Zifa Normalisation Committee to train paramedics, clubs and all other stakeholders to make sure that everything moves flawlessly in the coming season.
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