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A LEADING ZIFA official is being accused of flooding FIFA with various letters in a one-sided battle to try and manage the Zimbabwe football crisis and defeat the fight waged by councillors to oust the game’s leader, Cuthbert Dube.
A number of ZIFA Board members, including Vice-President Omega Sibanda, have been implicated by the same official of being part of the battle to oust Dube and leading the way in plunging the game into a crisis.
Sources told The Herald last night that there has been a lot of letters from 53 Livingstone Avenue, which have been flowing into Zurich in the past few days, painting a grim picture of the situation on the ground in Zimbabwe football.
“Letters are flying, at every minute, to Zurich from here and the tragedy about it all is that they don’t give a true picture of what is happening in Zimbabwe football because the official is trying to just portray a one-side story and most of the issues that he is raising are not necessarily true,” sources said.
“It’s very sad that there appears to be a deliberate move to try and distort things, twisting them to fit an agenda that the rebellion by the Councillors is not only being led by some ZIFA Board members, including Sibanda, but that all this might be political.
“The problem is that there isn’t anything coming from here to counter all the falsehoods that are being fed FIFA and there is a possibility that the world football governing body could end up believing what they are getting and that is very unfortunate.
“There is a selfish element, in the tone of the letters, and it’s sad that Zimbabwe’s football can be held to ransom just by a few individuals, simply because they have access to FIFA and, if they were saying things that are correct, then one would understand but some of the falsehoods we have seen are frightening.
“We all have a duty to fight and ensure that Zimbabwe football remains a national game and some of the things that we are seeing, which are contained in the communication, are frightening and we cannot just keep quiet about it.”
The sources said the letters began flying to FIFA, with regular frequency, after ZIFA president Cuthbert Dube, chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze and board member Tavengwa Hara returned from the FIFA Congress in Zurich at the weekend.
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