Times Of Swaziland: COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH THE MAN

COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH THE MAN
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Lwazi Dlamini - Pandora's Box on 22/06/2021 08:29:00


My dearest readers..........
On Sunday, June 27, 2021, history books will usher in a new Eswatini Football
Association (EFA) president, ending a combined 24 year reign of Adam Brightwell
Mveli Mthethwa. It will be a watershed moment. It will be the end of an era.
After the nomination process was concluded two weeks ago, three names have been
thrown into the hat as confirmed by the Ethics Committee. Peter ‘Samora’
Simelane, Mashumi Shongwe and Dr. Comfort Shongwe have all been nominated for
the presidential seat and the trio had a rare-as-hen’s-tooth opportunity to
tell the world what they intend to do for football a week ago.
One thing became clear, they all believe in football development,
commercialising the sport and most importantly capacitating the teams which will
in turn lift the performance of the senior national team which has proven to be
softer than a muffin on the international stage. The
State-of-the-Nation-Sports-Address (SONSA) holds no voting power (how I wish I
did!) but if truth be told, we have limited options and this speaks to our lack
of a succession plan and most importantly the retrogressive EFA Statutes which
doesn’t give us the option to bring in skills from outside the ambit of the
football assemblage. Now we have only three people to choose from. Let us look
at them closely ahead of the delegates deciding who deserves to be our modern
day football Moses to take our football from the bondage of under-achievement,
lack of proper development structures to the Land of honey and milk of
professionalism and enduring success.