The Herald
By Godknows Matarutse, Sports Reporter
26 September 2012
ZIFA will today get a rare opportunity to try and conÂvince both the Government and the private sector to provide fundÂing for the association in order to take local football to betÂter levels. The soccer mother body will come face to face with all the major stakeholders at the football indaba scheduled to begin at Pandhari Lodge this morning. Vice-President, John Nkomo, is expected to set the tone for the indaba when he gives a keynote address before the participants go into a day-long closed session.
The Sport and Recreation CommisÂsion who are co-ordinating the indaba, indicated that Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister David Coltart, and Zifa president Cuthbert Dube, will then hold a joint press conference at the end of the proceedings this evening.
Tirivashe Nheweyembwa, who is the Sports Commission corporate commuÂnications officer, said the meeting would look mostly at issues on how football in the country can be develÂoped: “They will seek to identify the key issues that merit interventions to achieve sustainable football developÂment,†said Nheweyembwa.
The indaba will also look to develop consensus on strategies to develop grassroots football, and to mobilise stakeholders support for investment in football development proÂgrammes and national teams efforts. Another objective of the indaba is to develop a suitable fund mobilisation and manageÂment model to maximise resource availability for football development proÂgrammes.