Mumba seeks unity first

MUKWIMA CHILALA writes FORMER Zesco United General Secretary and Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) vice presidential aspirant Justin Mumba says that his first task once elected was to help bring soccer administrators together and unite so as to dialogue. And Mumba says that the FAZ Constitution still had lacunas that needed to be worked on bring it up to speed and serve the expectations of members. Mumba was speaking when he featured on Millennium Radio’s Bola Review show under the topic Road to FAZ. He said that Zambian citizens that the duty to develop the games was the only thing that united people. He noted that the differences and environment in Zambian football were not enormous that they could not be resolved. “Who thought the Sports Minister could sit with the FAZ and agree to start on a new page? I think we all need to commend the minister, now that he has led the way. So the rest of us, we all need to follow suit,” Mumba said. “Given an opportunity to serve in the executive that would be the first thing for me to unite people and we can only unite under dialogue so that we move forward. We need to look at the fact that everyone has their own weaknesses and strength. “So for me I concentrate more on the strength. So we need dialogue for the sake of our football,” he said. Mumba said that there was need to understand that the chief stakeholder in football was the player and hence the need to always put the interest of the player first. And Mumba said that that he was looking to replicating his achievements at Zesco United which had seen the club score many successes under his watch. He said that there was need to bring the highest levels of professionalism that was built on transparency in the administrators, players, coaches and match officials. He said that it was high time the professional league was implemented by making sure that administrators were part and parcel of running it. Mumba’s ambition to become vice president of FAZ will have to wean of competition from other prominent administrators which include incumbent Rix Mweemba, Longa Mandona, Gideon Mwenya and Joseph Mulenga. The Sun