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Oris Chimenya, 19 November 2003
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Cash-strapped Football Association of Malawi (Fam) has come out from its shell, confessing that financial crises keep on coming because, among other reasons, its marketing department has not done enough fundraising for the association.
Fam spokesman George Kaudza Masina in an interview on Tuesday said: “To be honest, we are supposed to be fundraising, but we have not been aggressive in those programmes.”
He added that if the marketing team was aggressive, the body could not be facing such financial hurdles.
Fam’s public relations officer Isabel Maziya, who heads the association’s marketing department, refused to comment on Wednesday saying “Fam has a spokesperson”.
But Kaudza Masina also said people have wrong perception of what Fam gets from matches.
He cited the BP Top 8 final match between Moyale and MTL Wanderers in which, in spite of realising K2 million from gate collections, the association only got K189,000 after paying for the ground, police, stewards, electricity and water.
And on the funding of the U-20 team to take part in a Cosafa tournament in South Africa, Kaudza Masina said the association would have supported itself but got a raw deal from the Flames versus Ethiopia match in Lilongwe.
“The gate collections from Lilongwe during the second leg of the World Cup group qualifying match against Ethiopia would have been enough for the trip but Fam got less than half a million.
“Now, we cannot do anything. We will take our pride away and go to government,” complained Kaudza Masina. |
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