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Mboma hails Zifa boss on Asiagate
The deep divisions in its ranks and this had a huge bearing in the Warriors’ failure to qualify for the 2013 Nations Cup finals. The Harare businessman, speaking shortly after the Zifa Independent Ethics Committee presented their Asiagate report to the board members of the local football controlling body, saluted Zifa president, Cuthbert Dube, for his major house-cleaning exercise. “As ZNSSA, today we stand hand-in-hand with Zifa, especially its president Cuthbert Dube, in embracing the dawn of a new era in our football following the completion of the enquiry into the Asiagate scandal,” said Nyatanga.
Nyatanga backs the homeless World Cup Team
THE Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association have thrown their weight behind Team Zimbabwe for this year’s Homeless World Cup, with their leader Eddie “Mboma” Nyatanga yesterday pledging $500 towards the team’s trip to Scotland next month. The Homeless World Cup is an annual football tournament organized by the Homeless World Cup organisation, a social organisation which advocates the end of homelessness through the sport of association — football (or soccer). The organisation puts together an annual football tournament where teams of homeless people from each country compete. The tournament will take place in the heart of Glasgow, on George Square, which for the duration of the seven-day event from July 10 to 16 will be “the most inspiring place on the planet”. In total, 64 teams, representing 52 countries, including Zimbabwe, will come together to celebrate and highlight the year-round life-changing work of the Homeless World Cup National Partner network.
The other side of 'Mboma' Nyatanga
We know Eddie “Mboma” Nyatanga as the football-mad Warrior’s supporter. But he is also a serious businessman who owns several properties in Harare. However, it’s the football face that Nyatanga has shown the world the most, with the Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association life vice-president arguably one of the most powerful men in local soccer. The 55-year-old’s straight talking approach has seen him step on some toes but he remains undeterred, unflinching. Last week, The Sunday Mail columnist VaShagare said this no-frills way of doing his business makes Mboma the “King of Dzungu”. Of course, this did not sit well with Nyatanga and in chat about the column, he wondered why being frank had attracted VaShagare’s ire. While conceding to having his weaknesses, like everyone else, Nyatanga says he is able to call it as he sees it because he is not in football for money hence there is no need for him to bootlick anyone. “I am not into football for money, it is about passion. I am a millionaire already, in fact I made my first million dollars five years after Independence,” declared Nyatanga. “I have houses in the leafy suburbs of Harare, right now I stay in Borrowdale Brooke and not many people know that I have a degree in Business Studies acquired in Nigeria.