THE Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa) says it is happy with the state of preparedness by Zimbabwe to host the Cosafa Women’s Championships from September 13-24.
BY FORTUNE MBELE
A Cosafa delegation has been in the country to inspect facilities to be used by the 12 teams that will be in Bulawayo next month ahead of the tournament, which will be hosted at Barbourfields and Luveve stadia.
Although the inspection team had reservations about Luveve Stadium, Cosafa general secretary Sue DeStombes yesterday told journalists that the issues to do with the facility’s goalposts and the penalty spots had been speedily dealt with by the Bulawayo City Council.
“We had a productive three days looking at the match venues, Barbourfields and Luveve and looked at the training venues. One thing for sure is that Bulawayo has no shortage of fields, whether they be match or training venues. At the end of the three-day period, we are very happy with our two match venues,” she said.
“We had picked up an irregularity at Luveve in both goalposts which we then reported to the LOC [Local Organising Committee] and to the council who own the ground and we are grateful for the speed with which the Bulawayo City Council jumped onto the project. There are workmen who have dug up both the goalmouths and the penalty spots which were the problem areas and that brings Luveve back into play as our second match venue.”
She said they were impressed by the accommodation facilities where the teams and officials will be housed.
“In terms of accommodation, we have been through the lengths and breadths of Bulawayo looking at just about every lodge in the city; things that we never knew existed. We will be, through the Cosafa Women’s Championship, giving mileage and exposure to all of these very fine lodges to the outside world,” she said.
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Hosts Zimbabwe will be joined by Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zambia, with Kenya the guest nation from the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations.
