NIGEL ANDREW MASIMBA MUNYATI CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT: ZIMBABWE FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION MUNYATI: NIGEL, ANDREW, MASIMBA FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, ACES YOUTH SOCCER ACADEMY Mobile: +263 77 482-4183; E-mail:
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[email protected] Football is a Life I Live and Love! I am a full-time football administrator with a lifetime of passionate experience and expertise. I am running for the post of ZIFA Executive Committee President; and promise bring to Zimbabwe Football a passionate combination of skill, experience, dedication, and professionalism. Sport is a fundamental ingredient to a nation’s health, as it can help instil a sense of national pride and galvanise it in times of difficulty. Zimbabwe needs football. Our nation has endured a very challenging decade-and-a-half of political discord and economic strife that have left us with a low sense of personal and national esteem. I promise to play my part in redeeming the national soul through football, by implementing the following: 1 MUNYATI: NIGEL, ANDREW, MASIMBA FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, ACES YOUTH SOCCER ACADEMY Mobile: +263 77 482-4183; E-mail:
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[email protected] 1. BOARD EFFECTIVENESS The outgoing ZIFA Board has been a failure. While in our individual capacities we may have performed to differing levels of effectiveness, the net result is that we have failed the nation and our beautiful game. The main reason for this failure has been poor leadership. Our Board failed to focus on instituting a strategic approach to managing the glaring needs and requisite and key success factors such as cleansing the Associations image, financial rescue and prudent financial management, professionalization of the Secretariat, implementation of a Junior Football Development programme, and securing a technical partnership for the national team kit and equipment.