NFA money woes
The Namibia Football Association (NFA) is at loggerheads with former and current national men's senior football team's technical staff members claiming to be owed N$ 3.3 million by the NFA, while the latter insists that only N$ 1.3 million is outstanding.
A technical team that consists of 11 members is allegedly owed money by the NFA for competitions such as the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) Cup (2017 and 2018), 2018 African Nations Championship (Chan), 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), Hage Geingob Cup and the Afcon preparation friendly match in Dubai early last year.
In an interview with Nampa, Franco Cosmos, the NFA's acting secretary-general, said they are aware of the matter, and that the NFA is currently not in a financial position to pay the technical team their dues. “We just finished off with an audit that Fifa wanted done before they release any funds to us, and that final document was just handed in, so we are waiting to hear what they will say,” he said.
Cosmos added that the NFA hosted 19 games during the normalisation committee's tenure at the football house without getting financial assistance from the government. The acting secretary-general stated that only seven members of the technical team are owed money for the 2019 Afcon competition, while the head coach and two assistants were paid off.
“The NFA was supposed to return N$1.7 million of the money they got from treasury when the senior national football team competed at the 2019 Afcon, but when we get money from Fifa, we have to return N$400 000 to treasury since the N$1.3 million will be used to pay the seven technical members,” Cosmos said.
Members owed money
The technical team members owed money from the 2019 Afcon competition are Cole Mundjenge (kit manager), Cyril Isaacs (team manager), Jakes Amaning (assistant team manager), Charle du Toit (biokineticist), Munashe Chinyama (physiotherapist) and Sebastian Shatuleni (team doctor).
Ronny Kanalelo, Brave Warriors assistant coach and one of the representatives for the technical team, told Nampa that apart from the 2019 Afcon appearance and call-up fees that were paid to the three coaches, they are still owed a lot of money.
“For Afcon, only players and three coaches (Ricardo Mannetti, Collin Benjamin and myself) were paid in full what was owed to us for the Afcon call-up and appearance fees, while the other technical team members just got half of their appearance fees and not a cent from their call-up fees,” he said.
He added that all technical team members are still owed Afcon qualifying bonuses as well as outstanding bonuses for reaching the quarter-finals at the 2018 Chan competition and playing in the plate final of the 2018 Cosafa Cup in Rustenburg.- Nampa
A technical team that consists of 11 members is allegedly owed money by the NFA for competitions such as the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) Cup (2017 and 2018), 2018 African Nations Championship (Chan), 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), Hage Geingob Cup and the Afcon preparation friendly match in Dubai early last year.
In an interview with Nampa, Franco Cosmos, the NFA's acting secretary-general, said they are aware of the matter, and that the NFA is currently not in a financial position to pay the technical team their dues. “We just finished off with an audit that Fifa wanted done before they release any funds to us, and that final document was just handed in, so we are waiting to hear what they will say,” he said.
Cosmos added that the NFA hosted 19 games during the normalisation committee's tenure at the football house without getting financial assistance from the government. The acting secretary-general stated that only seven members of the technical team are owed money for the 2019 Afcon competition, while the head coach and two assistants were paid off.
“The NFA was supposed to return N$1.7 million of the money they got from treasury when the senior national football team competed at the 2019 Afcon, but when we get money from Fifa, we have to return N$400 000 to treasury since the N$1.3 million will be used to pay the seven technical members,” Cosmos said.
Members owed money
The technical team members owed money from the 2019 Afcon competition are Cole Mundjenge (kit manager), Cyril Isaacs (team manager), Jakes Amaning (assistant team manager), Charle du Toit (biokineticist), Munashe Chinyama (physiotherapist) and Sebastian Shatuleni (team doctor).
Ronny Kanalelo, Brave Warriors assistant coach and one of the representatives for the technical team, told Nampa that apart from the 2019 Afcon appearance and call-up fees that were paid to the three coaches, they are still owed a lot of money.
“For Afcon, only players and three coaches (Ricardo Mannetti, Collin Benjamin and myself) were paid in full what was owed to us for the Afcon call-up and appearance fees, while the other technical team members just got half of their appearance fees and not a cent from their call-up fees,” he said.
He added that all technical team members are still owed Afcon qualifying bonuses as well as outstanding bonuses for reaching the quarter-finals at the 2018 Chan competition and playing in the plate final of the 2018 Cosafa Cup in Rustenburg.- Nampa
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