MUKWIMA CHILALA writes
MATERO-BASED Lusaka Tigers team Chairman Teddy Njovu says that despite the toxic environment around Zambian football he is ready to serve in the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) Lusaka province executive.
And Njovu said that he was enticed to vie for the position of vice chairman for Lusaka province after having received overwhelming support from various administrators to run the race.
The Lusaka Tigers Chairman is among prominent names on the list of Lusaka province administrators vying for positions in the FAZ Lusaka province executive election to be held at a date to be announced.
Njovu, however, has been at the helm of the Matero side for the past three seasons after having taken over from long standing administrator Sam Phiri.
The Tigers Chairman said he was going into the FAZ post to extend his service to community having already being doing so at the Matero Stadium side.
He said that despite the momentum having slowed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, he was confident of scooping the position due to the amount of work they had put in their campaigns.
“This is a job which is voluntary and of community service, so people approached me and said what you are doing at Tigers is great job so why don’t also come at provincial level. Hence I was enticed into going in that,” Njovu said.
He noted that there was no need of getting to the level of fighting each other in football because everyone had the same objective of serving the game.
“In our language they say if you pray for the rains, don’t complain about the mud. I know the environment I’ll be dealing there’s a lot of toxic and politics in football , but I’m ready because I’m aware that people are just fighting over nothing and the game is the one suffering ,” Njobvu said.
The Tiger chairman said that the politics which had engulfed the game were just derailing the progress of the country.
The FAZ Lusaka provincial elections were supposed to have been held in March but were later postponed to a date to be announced.
