The Sunday Mail
THIS one is all about boobs.
I have decided to take the advice of the Sports Editor who reckons “VaShagare needs to stop being too serious with life and take it easy once in a while. It’s a Sunday mwene (friend) don’t shoot in every column.”
Well, what better way to go light than talk about boobs?
There are big and small ones, but they are all boobs aren’t they?
ZIFA Chief Executive Jonathan, Mashingaidze, has some big boobs on his curriculum vitae and the guy does not look like he will be applying the brakes anytime soon.
Just how do you explain his move of asking the National Football Association of Swaziland to pay for the travel of the match officials who handled the Warriors versus Comoros clash last Sunday?
Mashingaidze in his wisdom, or lack thereof, approached the Swazis asking for a bail out with the promise that broke zifa would reimburse them after the game.
Go to hell the Swazis said.
Well not in those exact words but that was the sum total of their response.
The Swazis are fed up with zifa after providing the Young Warriors with a bus after an All Africa Games qualifier in Mbabane early this month.
Kallisto Pasuwa and his boys, who played out a 2-all draw with the hosts, where stranded and could not hire a bus from the Swazi capital to Johannesburg where they were set to get a connecting flight back home.
With less than $200 in the wallet and a 30 men team to ferry and feed the team, the Head of Delegation was being asked to walk on water.
He failed.
The guy is not Jesus, come on.
The Swazis came to our rescue.
However, the thought of cleaning up after zifa for the second time did not turn on the Swazis.
With Comoros in town, Mashingaidze tried a funny arrangement that would have seen the visitors’ just getting accommodation at the lodge they put up in the Avenues area of Harare while their food was prepared at the zifa Village.
The plan was a disaster.
Another disaster has been Harrington Shereni’s plans to host a testimonial match.
Harry is a good guy but he seems to be lacking advice and going about business blindly.
Long before he announced the postponement of the match that was set to be played at the National Sports Stadium yesterday there were signs of doom all over.
There was no excitement about this one.
Harry needs a team, a good one.
A team that tells him that chances of getting Olivier Giroud over when Arsenal are about to get into pre-season are slim.
A team that tells him staging the testimonial in the middle of the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season is just not on.
Hopefully it all comes together for the former Zimbabwe international.
Then we had the boob about an accident that never was.
It was reported, fictitiously, that zifa boss Cuthbert Dube and the Warriors trio of coach Kallisto Pasuwa, skipper Willard Katsande and striker Knowledge Musona had been involved in an accident.
The romour started on social media and was developed into a story that broke on the KickOff website before being picked up by other publications.
Well it turns no such accident ever happened and Xolisani Gwesela never stammered along in an interview as claimed by the journalist who fed KickOff with the story.
We pray for Devine
Young Devine Lunga must have felt fulfilled as he sang the national anthem fully kitted in senior national team colours at Rufaro last Sunday.
Playing for your country is the ultimate dream for every footballer.
However, the joy turned into pain after he fractured his knee.
It then turned into a nightmare when zifa turned their backs on the boy when he badly needed medical assistance.
Pasuwa could have none of it and made a scene at 53 Livingstone Avenue before things started moving.
It’s unacceptable for a boy who got injured while defending the flag to go through such torture.
Have we no shame?
VaShagare exits the scene.
VaShagare is the founder of DeMbare DotComs and can be contacted on that Facebook page as well as the email [email protected]
