The Sunday Mail
TWINE PHIRI is a victim of football politics, his tears are genuine.
However, one gets the feeling that he is over blowing it like he usually does.
Once again, Phiri has announced his decision to walk away from the game.
Once again, this comes after receiving a heavy blow in the boardroom.
The guy is a cry baby if you ask me.
Remember he made such a claim when Makepekepe were sinking like the Titanic in 2014?
Now here he is again claiming that he has decided to walk away.
Look, Phiri has over the years dished it out just as much as he has received it although this latest blow is massive, the biggest he has had to endure.
It’s so massive it can knock him out of the game if he continues to be emotional and not be a man about it.
Phiri wants to walk away from the game?
Walk away to where?
Look the guy has invested a lot in football, his business ran to the ground because he channeled most of his money into Caps United.
While some of us work in various sectors of the economy – with yours truly in the hospitality sector – Twine Phiri works in football.
Freeman, the dancehall artiste, once sang “Magitare kubasa” and if we substitute Doctor Wemagitare for Twine, the song would be “Kubhora kubasa.”
Now after a bad few months in office that have seen him losing his controlling stake in Caps United and his position as Premier Soccer League chair, Phiri says he is walking away from the game.
Again I ask walk away to where?
Va Shagare doesn’t want Twine Phiri to be the next entry on the list of football administrators who went on to lead miserable lives and die after walking away from the game broke.
Yes the tide might have turned against Phiri, turned nastily, but winners never quit like what my friend with Malawian blood wants to do now.
He has been beaten at a game he has long played, it hurts yes, but that should not make him walk away from the beautiful game.
Zimbabwean football needs Twine, and Twine needs Zimbabwean football.
I could feel the pain in Twine’s voice as I read the Sharuko exclusive on Thursday.
I could also feel the lies from the man in a bid to paint himself as the victim.
“I have worked well with my partner (Farai Jere) for years and we both had dreams and we both had dreams to make Caps United a successful and professional football club…,” Phiri was quoted as saying.
It’s not very true that Phiri worked well with Jere, no it’s not.
If it were true, Jere would not have walked away in frustration after years of trying to make Phiri regularise the club’s share ownership structure.
Twine is a football administrator and politician, all rolled into one.
However, his weakness is a stinking failure to deal with disappointment.
If he is to work his way up the football ladder and one day become Zifa president then he has to develop a thicker skin.
When social media turns sour
Dynamos midfielder Walter Mukanga had an ugly tiff with a club supporter during the course of the week as the story of Takesure Chinyama’s alleged fall out with new coach Jorge Silva boiled over.
The Facebook spat between Mukanga and Takesure Kativhu made good reading for some of us but at the end of the day football players should avoid public tiffs with fans.
They will always end up on the losing end.
Va Shagare exits the scene!
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