FAZ Boss Meets Super Boss At CAF Indaba

FAZ boss Kalusha Bwalya, also a TP Mazembe player scout, has ‘re-united’ with Katanga supremo Moise Katumbi at the Confederations of African Football (CAF) seminar on club licensing and professionalism ending today in South Africa’s coastal city – Cape Town.

Kalusha – a CAF executive committee member – has often triggered frosty relations with the TP Mazembe chief with the recent one involving the widely publicised controversy surrounding Chipolopolo trio Nathan Sinkala, Rainford Kalaba and Stophilla Sunzu.

The trio was embroiled in a club-country wrangle that saw them miss the Brazil international friendly and at the same time subjected the players to a criminal investigation with their passports confiscated for allegedly crossing the border in the Democratic Republic of Congo illegally.

Kalaba, Sunzu and Sinkala had reported to be injured but Kalusha and sports minister Chishimba Kambwili never bought into the TP Mazembe report creating a whirlwind that was later only settled by then home affairs minister Edgar Lungu.

Sunzu and Sinkala have since moved on to link up with former Chipolopolo coach Herve Renard at struggling French ligue one side Sochaux.

Yesterday, Kalusha met his boss at the CAF meeting in Cape Town where only Zesco United was representing Zambia from a field of 37 African football clubs.

The Confederation of Africain Football (CAF) organised a seminar on club licensing and professionalism in football from 30-31 January 2014 in Cape Town, South Africa.

According to CAF, the seminar is seeking to equip participants with the requisite knowledge and information about club licensing and the tenets of the fast-growing professionalism in football.

A variety of topics were lined up for discussion which included competitions and club Licensing, the role of CAF, Federations, Leagues and Clubs.

Other issues discussed are professional development of clubs – managerial and finance, infrastructural development of clubs and stadia, youth policy, TV Rights, broadcasting and production of matches in Africa.

The administrators further tackled marketing of competitions and sponsorship for clubs, the club licensing system in other confederations (UEFA, AFC) and legal issues concerning clubs and status of players

CAF president Issa Hayatou, his Executive Committee that includes Kalusha, and Danny Jordaan President of South Africa Football Associations (SAFA) supervised the event.

Posted by Editor on January 31, 2014. Filed under SPORTS. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry