. . . Chipeta vows to attract sponsors

ZIFA Central Region chairman Stanley Chapeta, who is running for a post in the national association’s December 1, elections has vowed to clear the path for his anticipated traffic conundrum of the corporate world into Zimbabwean football.

Chapeta has been credited for bringing

Vuma also wrote to FIFA yesterday, notifying the global football motherbody of the latest developments. In a letter addressed to FIFA Secretary-General Fatma Samoura, Vuma said the ZIFA Electoral Committee also decided to defer the presidential and vice presidential ballot to next week for the sake of justice.

The letter was also copied to the FIFA Director for Development for Africa and Caribbean, Veron Mosengo-Omba.

“Please note that having received the appeals committee judgments, we the Electoral Committee noted that the appeals were not handled in accordance with Article 12 sub-section 3 of the Electoral in sponsorship to the central region second tier after convincing the Zimbabwe General Medical Aid Fund to fund the league, as well as Elshed Investments to sponsor individual awards.

The veteran administrator said he was asking for a front seat to lead the affairs in the national game which has been afflicted by failure to attract the corporate world to come back to the game.

Code. As per our earlier assurances that we will abide by the statutes, we deem it necessary from a technical perspective that the appellants be allowed to contest the elections. In the interest of justice, (elections will) therefore be held as follows: Executive Committee members — 1 December 2018, (and) president and vice president — 8 December 2018,” wrote Vuma.

Kamambo is seeking to challenge incumbent Philip Chiyangwa for the position of ZIFA president. Banda has also thrown his name into the hat for the vice presidency against Omega Sibanda.

However, their candidatures, along with

“I have been in football for a very long time and I know the importance of sponsorship among other things to take football forward. The progress of football in this country has been stalled by the lack of funding and it is quite sad that our teams and players are losing a chance to do well in international football.

“My record as an administrator is clear and because of transparency as well as

that of Moyo, who had filed papers to contest for a place in the ZIFA board, had been rejected by the Electoral Committee on the grounds that there were some irregularities. The decision was rubber stamped by the ZIFA Electoral Appeals Committee which met in Harare last week.

The appeals committee upheld that Kamambo was not eligible for ZIFA presidency since he was improperly nominated while Banda, who was banned from football in 2013 after he was found guilty in the Centralgate match-fixing scandal, failed to plead his case against the penalty.

Kamambo and Banda were not satisfied by the rulings and they went on to integrity, the corporate world is happy to work with me. Together with other members of the ZIFA board at regional level, we have managed to attract sponsorship to the central soccer league.

“I am motivated to do the same at the national level and I can promise that because of my proven record, we will do the same at the national level,” said Chapeta.

approach FIFA for intervention. ZIFA yesterday said they reviewed the whole process and allowed the candidates to run for office. Banda yesterday said he was still studying the contents of the decision by the ZIFA Electoral Committee and indicated he still had reservations in the manner in which the electoral process is being handled.

“I was still studying that, I will have an opinion maybe tomorrow. But the funny thing is that the same committee that disqualified us can’t be the same committee that determine the case within two days and the other one within eight days where the constitution is very clear that we were