IT’LL BE RAINING CASH FOR EFA AFFILIATES

EZULWINI – Eswatini Football Association (EFA) affiliates can heave a huge sigh of relief after the organisation assured them they will be paid their quarterly grants and the last batch of the COVID-19 solidarity funds before the end of next week.

The assurance was made by outgoing EFA president Adam ‘Bomber’ Mthethwa, during the extraordinary general assembly held on Sunday at the Happy Valley Hotel. “Members are due to receive their payments of grants for 2021 within the next week. This will be followed in the next few weeks with the last portion of the COVID-19 Solidarity Fund,’ Mthethwa said.

Address

Mthethwa, in his address, said over and above these financial injections, the EFA had invested towards the resumption of football as equipment and material for such had already been done, including the compulsory testing for the various football clubs at the level of the premier league and national first division including those from regional super leagues that participated in the national playoffs. He said the EFA distributed a sum of E2 275 000 to its members to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 threat in May 2020 and then followed it up with another allocation of E3 100 000 again to its members in December 2020. This was over and above the normal grants which were transmitted to EFA members in October 2020.

“Delegates, whilst the COVID-19 relief Funding does not affect the receipt of the normal grants, which are expected to be received in full in 2021, in line with the requirements of the FIFA Forward Regulations, members are entreated to exercise cautiousness in expenditure, to ensure an extended livelihood of their organisations and associated basic responsibilities as the environment of the pandemic has not yet been resolved, especially, with all economies domestically and globally including those that finance football, having taken a huge recession as a result of the persistent health threat,” Mthethwa added.

Post your comment

Your name:

Your e-mail address:

Add your comments:

Please enter the code you see in the image:

Image:

Code: