FOOTBALL SEASON WILL FINISH - EFA

EZULWINI - The Eswatini Football Association (EFA) is not aiming at crowning this season’s MTN Premier League champions abruptly.

The plan is laid out to see through the football 2020/21 season as confirmed in Circular No. 157 by the EFA to its affiliates. The circular is dated January 8 this year and details a lot about the current football suspension. 

The EFA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Frederick Mngomezulu released the circular to affiliates. “In this regard, there will therefore be no need to develop a new football competitions resumption strategy, save for the contingency planning of the strategy, in order to ensure the successful implementation of football business for the remaining period of the 2020/21 season,” reads an excerpt from the circular, after the CEO had explained that due to the current partial lockdown, all football business in the country was suspended.

Mngomezulu made it clear that they had anticipated this interruption and their strategy to resume football provided for it. He said football business would continue until the end, but they currently had to adhere to the country’s government review of the COVID-19 regulations.

Further, to the already suspended premier and first division football leagues, the EFA announced a suspension of all courses, workshops, judicial cases hearings and all member associations and leagues are expected to be closed during this period.

Closure

“There will be a partial closure of the national offices at Sigwaca House, Mbabane and the National Technical Centre at Lobamba, where most of the departments for which activities have been suspended, will work from home, with only a few remaining, particularly dealing with ongoing international business and the sustenance of the statutory operations of the organisation,” the CEO stated in the circular.

He further encouraged clubs to draw training programmes for their players and have the technical bench monitor the individual training to keep players fit. Meanwhile, the EFA crowned Young Buffaloes as champions last season with eight games to spare, after it became clear COVID-19 had made it impossible to finish the campaign.

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