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MIRRIAM Sibanda, the chairperson of women football has to set up an indaba with various stakeholders to talk about girl child development. You find young girls playing games on grounds dotted around suburbs where you also find the public walking across the field during these games. I was also surprised to see that their league games are officiated by one referee. To those who watched the Women’s Under-17 World Cup last month I felt so sad seeing our neighbours Zambia participating in the finals while we were not there. Ladies and gentlemen when are we going to have our own teams in the World Cup? .
The kind of football people
Referees — two major types:
1. WEAK REFEREE “common”: These are insignificant men and women who have become referees collecting autographs of players who they were too frightened to ask when they were just ordinary spectators.
2. FIRM REFERRE “rare”: These are discipline maniacs who took part and ended up at referees’ course instead. This sort of referee will not send someone off for breaking another player’s leg but will send off four players for complaining why he did not. By the way I would like to congratulate the young woman who officiated the Highlanders v FC Platinum match in the semifinal of the Independence Trophy for putting up a good performance
Star player
Every club has one or two. Every footballer thinks he is one but you can tell which one is really the star because he is the one with no mud on his kit after half an hour and all his teammates are shouting at him. He declines to get involved in the rough stuff and occasionally tries to turn on whatever skill he may have, he is the face on the posters that are sold to silly boys outside the stadium before the game and whom they all mob at the end of the game.
Coach
Man who tells the players what to do in their training, afterwards they tell him what to do.
TV commentators
One of the silliest breeds of people in the game, they think it is their job to talk while we are watching football matches on the television and tell us what is happening. Some people say football was invented to give these peculiar people a living because they could not earn a living doing other jobs. I am sure such wicked accusations are completely unfounded, there is no clear route to becoming a football commentator although a lack of wit honestly and originality are an advantage. A drowing voice and ability to remember the score and names of the two sides are an added asset.
Directors
Football like everything else has a board of directors and like directors everywhere they are ignorant “who are just in it for the prestige”. They can be distinguished by lengthy cigars, Roll Royce, pretty assistant sitting on the lap during the games.
Did you know?
In the first World Cup in 1930 the Romanians had entered the competition on the instruction of their Monarch King Carol II who even selected the national team.
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