Zimbabwe: I Returned to Save Domestic Football

27 March 2008
interview

Harare — For almost two years Jonathan Mashingaidze has been on the sidelines of mainstream football after being suspended as Zifa chief executive before being exonerated of any wrongdoing in the 2006 World Cup ticket scam that rocked the association in that year.

But Mashingaidze is now back at the Zifa headquarters at 53 Livingstone this time as the training and development manager and with an added responsibility of manning the association's 2010 World Cup desk. Mashingaidze this week spoke on his decision to accept return to the game arguing that he felt duty bound to "save domestic football from demise and decay" and revealed that he harboured no hard feelings about the time he spent on the sidelines.

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