FUB, BFA standoff continues
The Botswana football Association is once again accused of delaying tactics that are increasingly frustrating the Footballers Union of Botswana ( FUB).
The Union has over the months called out BFA top brass to discuss some of the pressing issues affecting the current status of the local game. In their latest attempt to hear out the frustrated leaders of the Union, the association reportedly sent through the newly appointed CEO, Goabaone Taylor to smoke the peace pipe with FUB representatives, who, in turn, declined the call.
According to the Union, the National Executive Committee are the ones best placed to deal with the matter as they are the decision makers.
“The BFA knows very well that we want to meet the leadership, we want to speak to the political wing and not the secretariat, we want decision makers. That’s how we have been working with them before the relationship got sour. All that being guided by the collective bargaining agreement we have with them,” FUB Vice President Lesego Molemogi highlighted. Ahead of the BFA general assembly last year, top brass at Lekidi Football Centre and FUB officials were an inseparable bunch that looked destined to transform the fortunes of the local
game. Amongst some of the achievements made in that honeymoon period was: the implementation of National Resolution Chamber, an arm whose main interest is to resolve football dispute at club level quickly and efficiently. Standardized contracts was another agreement that was signed as the two bodies enjoyed harmonious relations. After the elections and with the Covid- 19 sweeping through the country, there was apparent social
distancing on matters affecting the players by the football mother body became apparent, an exercise that the Union could not entertain. The union, earlier this year held campaigns calling for a return of football, a move that they felt the association was not showing keen interest to advocate for. The union also held another campaign, intended to sensitize different stakeholders about the plight of women football in Botswana. Mean
while , BFA Chief Executive Officer Goabaone Taylor, during a press briefing ahead of Zebras departure to South Africa for COSAFA cup engagements, stressed the importance of working well with stakeholders to re- brand the image of local football. Efforts to reach Taylor for comment on the matter through both phone and text proved futile at press time.