The Sunday Mail
Sir
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YOURS TRULY people who, without being emotional, are able to take lethal verbal digs at their rivals.
Sadly there are few of them in local football hence the name calling that we have been subjected to of late.
Sir has been watching with shame as the verbal tiffs continue at the expense of the game that the protagonists all claim to love.
I believe in debating the matter and never the man/woman.
But once in a while comes along someone who fires verbal salvos in a manner that makes Yours Truly forget his no name calling principle and admire the said individual’s modus operandi.
And the learned Itai Ndudzo had me at hello last week.
Ndudzo is Zifa’s legal adviser and had lots to say in reaction to the meeting that Trevor- Carelse Juul fronted in the capital last Thursday.
Juul and his crew met in Harare and resolved to set up a steering committee because “the constitutional leadership vacuum currently existing in Zimbabwean football cannot be ignored by any responsible citizen of Zimbabwe”.
Juul, who has twice failed to land the Zifa presidency, has the likes of Jonathan Mashingaidze, Vincent Pamire, Rafik Khan and Leslie Gwindi – to mention but four – in his camp.
They argue that Philip Chiyangwa and his board cannot continue to hold office because their term expired at the end of March and do not constitute a quorum.
On the other hand, PC maintains he has the right to remain in office because his term expires in two years.
He also insists that he still has half of the eight member board in office – himself, vice president Omega Sibanda, finance chief Philemon Machana and women’s football representative Rosemary Kanonge.
The fact that both camps use the Zifa constitution to defend their differing positions makes it clear that local football statutes lack clarity.
How can the North Pole and the South Pole both turn to the same source to buttress their differing claims?
Amid the differing positions verbal jabs are being exchanged with Juul’s camp allegedly fronted by a man PC accuses of being a fraudster and wannabe Fifa security official while in the pro-establishment camp everyone seems to have been given the license to shoot.
Last week it was Ndudzo’s turn to aim at Juul’s camp.
“The only common thread that runs consistent about the characters that have met today (Thursday last week) is failure in life, in business, in football and any endeavour they undertake,” said the Harare-based attorney.
“It is an act of outright lunacy and certainly no football person worth their mind would pay attention to this cabal.
“These are people who have consistently and significantly contributed to the ZIFA debt and stagnation of football in the country.
“Whatever decision they seek to make is of no value because the statutes are clear that the ZIFA Congress, which elects an electoral committee, is the final congress before elections are held.”
One can bet on Juul’s camp firing back at some point, it comes with the election season.
However, one cannot bet on the Sports and Recreation Commission waking up, smelling the coffee and calling the warring parties to a peace pipe smoking indaba.
Sir exits the scene!
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