TWINE PHIRI yesterday came out guns blazing, insisting he was still the Premier Soccer League chairman and dismissed claims by the new ZIFA board that he had ceased to be the top-flight body’s leader following ownership changes at CAPS United.
New ZIFA president Philip Chiyangwa emerged from his board’s maiden meeting at ZIFA House on Tuesday afternoon to announce that Phiri was no longer the PSL chairman and that the top-flight body would have to elect a new chairman.
Chiyangwa claimed that the directive for a fresh election to choose a chairman at PSL has been necessitated by the fact that Phiri was no longer the CAPS United owner.
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“I think there was some misunderstanding there. We are guided by the PSL constitution and we will follow the provisions of the constitution.
“I was given the mandate by the Premiership clubs and it’s for four years. Accordingly, it’s only the PSL clubs that can revoke my services and not anyone else,” said Phiri.
“I also have the mandate from my club to represent them in the board of governors.
“In any case, it’s not like one has to be the majority shareholder of a club to be on that board.
“If you look at it, some of the members are employees at their clubs, for instance at company -owned teams like Triangle, How Mine, FC Platinum, etc they have been seconded by their clubs to represent them on the board of governors.
“So I think we need to sit down with the ZIFA board and try to clarify some of these things and show them the light,” said Phiri.
ZIFA chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze also conceded that the decision on Phiri’s fate lay with the PSL clubs, but claimed that as the mother body they wanted clarification on whether he still was the league’s chairman following the ouster of the Dube-led board.
“It is up to the PSL assembly to reaffirm Twine Phiri as their representative on the ZIFA board or to choose a new leader but we are saying at the moment they do not have a legitimate representative on the ZIFA board since the revocation of October 3 also affected the PSL chairman,’’ Mashingaidze said. Source: Herald
