Zifa Village to be complete early next year

completed by the end of February.
This was revealed during a meeting attended by the Fifa Regional Development Officer, Ashford Mamelodi, Zifa president Cuthbert Dube, his chief executive officer Jonathan Mashingaidze and the four constitutional review committee members, Tim Sangarwe, Cosmas Mukwesha, Tawengwa Hara and Tinoda Hover at the PSMAS board room on Monday.
“Phase Two should be complete by the end of December 2011. A site handover will be done by the contractors to Zifa at the end of January and Mamelodi is expected to witness the handover ceremony.
The contractors must have the concepts and proposals ready for submission to Fifa by February for commencement of Phase Three and the village should be ready for occupation by end of February 2012,” said Zifa communications manager Nicky Dhlamini-Moyo in a communiqué.
Once complete the village will ease financial burden on the usually cash- strapped Zifa as it will have state-of-the-art facilities like football pitch, dressing rooms, floodlights and a technical centre for use by national teams.
Meanwhile, in another show of confidence for the Dube-led association, Fifa will facilitate the training of 30 referees and soccer coaches for Futsal development in Zimbabwe. The participants will be drawn from across the country.
Dhlamini-Moyo said the course, to be held in the capital, will begin on Monday next week and end on Friday.
“Mozambican national, Asselam Khan, will be the instructor for the referees while Mico Martic from Croatia will take charge of coaches,” she said.
Futsal is played between two teams. Unlike some other forms of indoor football, the game is played on a hard court surface delimited by lines; walls or boards are not used.
Futsal is also played with a smaller ball with less bounce than a regular football. The rules create an emphasis on improvisation, creativity and technique as well as ball control and passing in small spaces.
There are five players for each team, one of whom is the goalkeeper. The maximum number of substitutes allowed is seven, with unlimited substitutions during the match. Substitutes can come on even when the ball is in play.
If a team has fewer than three players in the team, the match is abandoned.
The match is controlled by the referee, who enforces the Laws of the Game, and the first referee is the only one who can abandon the match because of interference from outside the pitch.
This referee is also assisted by a second referee.
The decisions made by the referees are final and can only be changed if the referees think it is necessary and play has not restarted. There is also a third referee and a timekeeper, who are provided with equipment to keep a record of fouls in the match. In the event of injury to the referee or second referee, the third referee will replace the second referee.