{"id":5357,"date":"2024-10-22T08:24:16","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5357"},"modified":"2024-10-22T08:24:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:24:22","slug":"big-changes-are-coming-to-the-zimbabwe-football-association-zifa-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5357","title":{"rendered":"Big changes are coming to the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) elections!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Sports Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of yesterday, the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA)&#8217;s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Harare, has declared that anyone vying to run for country&#8217;s foot governing body&#8217;s the top post will now need to have at least five Ordinary Level (O-Level) passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This new requirement could disqualify several hopefuls, including Prophet Walter Magaya, who reportedly tried to influence stakeholders to drop the educational requirement before the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move is aimed at ensuring that ZIFA leaders have a basic level of education, according to Rosemary Mugadza, a former Mighty Warriors coach and captain. She emphasized that education is crucial in football leadership, citing her experience as a CAF instructor where academic qualifications were mandatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mugadza even suggested that former footballers should consider night school to get the necessary qualifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potential Candidates Affected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prophet Walter Magaya: May be disqualified due to the new educational requirement<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marshall Gore: Status unknown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ellen Chiwenga: Status unknown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Brighton &#8220;Panjap&#8221; Ushendibaba: Status unknown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Richard Mazodze: Status unknown<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Martin Kweza: Status unknown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The new draft constitution, which includes this education requirement, was voted on ahead of the upcoming elections in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lincoln Mutasa, Chair of the ZIFA Normalization Committee (NC), sees this as a major step towards fulfilling their mandate and preparing for the elective general meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think about this new requirement? Will it lead to better leadership in ZIFA?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC Sports News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Reporter As of yesterday, the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA)&#8217;s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Harare, has declared that anyone vying to run for country&#8217;s foot governing body&#8217;s the top&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5359,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5357\/revisions\/5359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}