The ManicaPost
Blessing Gondokondo Sports Reporter
THE Ministry of Sports and Recreation is following up on the club system programme which is meant to professionalise management of different sports clubs.The club system programme came after the discovery that a lot of teams have collapsed, while some have remained poor due to lack of a standard and structured system to control the development of clubs.
Among other envisaged goals, the club system urges all teams in different sporting genres to register their teams with the Ministry of Sports and Recreation.
The system is expected to create an effective platform for stimulating mass participation which will be established in urban, rural, farming and mining areas.
Out of this programme, clubs are expected to create opportunities to provide for resources to local people, local authorities, development partners, individual donors and corporate world.
Part of the club system programme policy reads: “The club system will allow the development of communities through building of sports and recreation club buildings and facilities, thereby creating employment for local people.
“The community sports and recreation club system will create a platform for mass participation in sports and recreation by all people including youths, women, people with disabilities and the elderly in order to address issues of discipline, employment, patriotism, gender, healthy lifestyle, tolerance of difference, community development, fairness, culture, nationhood, social cohesion, and generating a productive working class.”
After the initiative of the system a window period will be structured.
Big teams will be forced to desist from just picking players and recruiting them to their teams without negotiating and compensating to the team that nurtured the player.
