Imagine if Zimbabwe had been banned from Olympics at height of your swimming career – Mahere to Coventry

Opposition CCC Spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere has responded to the latest comment by Minister of Youth, Sport, Art and Recreation Kirsty Coventry in reference to the ongoing ban by of Zimbabwe by Fifa.

For over a year, Zimbabwe has been sat out of the international football community over government interference.

Coventry, in speaking before a Parliamentary committee, said her government had accepted the ban, and not asked for it to be lifted.

“We don’t want them to lift it at this point until we cleared and clean up our soccer,” Coventry said

“We are not going to do what other members may say,” she continued.

199 Fifa member countries voted to keep Zimbabwe out of world football.

When some parliamentarians said the suspension was a disservice, the riposte from Coventry was, “Disservice to who?”

Now Mahere, a big critic of Coventry, weighed in.

“A disservice to all the footballers whose careers have stagnated because of the international football ban you caused,” Mahere tweeted.

She then landed what might be a cajal.

“Imagine if Zimbabwe had been banned from the Olympics at the height of your swimming career?”

Coventry inists that there is a plan, though.

“The process now is that the ZIFA executive, that was duly elected, has given the roodmap and the points that they want to clarify and clean up,” she told the commmittee.

Fifa has said it does not recognise the current Gift Banda-led Zifa executive, and deemed the Extraordinary General Meeting, which withdrew Felton Kamambo and installed him illegal.

The Sport and Recreation Commission, which falls under Coventry’s ministry created a committee meant to restructure football. It completed its job after a year.

No timescale has been given for when the Zimbabwe government will reengage with the football world.