Ghastly women football conditions worry FUB
Kabelo Boranabi | Thursday February 9, 2017 11:19
Both the Women’s Super League and the First Division Leagues are played on poor grounds without a proper turf, and with no immediate medical assistance.
FUB secretary general, Kgosana Masaseng told Mmegi Sport they have received numerous grievances from the players about the unfavourable playing conditions. “We have received reports from the players that some of the times they play on uneven and unconducive surfaces. The reports also state that there is little to no immediate medical assistance at the grounds. These worry us as the players’ union,” he said.
He further said they have since written to the Botswana Football Association (BFA) alerting them about the situation. “We have written to the BFA. They called us to their office where we agreed that we have to find ways on how we could counteract on this problem. We signed an agreement two weeks that institutions like Boitekanelo College and Institute of Health Sciences who are partners of the BFA could help on the matter,” he said.
He also said the FUB implementation committee is assessing the situation so that all the necessities would be in place when the league resumes.
Meanwhile, Masaseng said FUB has registered over 100 female players and would continue to recruit more players to join the union. “We continue to engage them and take part in their activities. We had activation last week at one of their friendly tournaments and we would also be part of their weekend’s tournament just to encourage more players to join the union.”
He said despite the reoccurring transfer wrangles in men’s football, their female counterparts have not recorded such incidents. “It is not too common in women football that clubs would fight for a player. This could be mainly that the leagues are not fully professional and also recruit among themselves,” he said.
The women football has reached new lows after it was halted for four weeks due to lack of funds. The teams however have been keeping themselves busy, taking part in the Save The Girl Child tournaments held countrywide.