Cosafa still struggling to find a host for the 2009 Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup after Mpumalanga Province in South Africa withdrew their earlier pledge to stage this years tournament.
Cosafa president Suketu Patel told the Southern Africa regional football governing body’s website on Friday that he was still optimistic a new host for the annual tournament will be found for this years event.
“We had a written commitment from the Provincial Government in September last year that they would put on the tournament in 2009 and 2010,” Patel says. “This was reaffirmed telephonically by the Province’s MEC in April, though she has since left office.
“Despite follow-up communication with the Province we have received no further commitment from them and that has put the tournament in jeopardy for this year.
“The situation has meant we have essentially lost eight months in searching for a new host, however, we are still hopeful of finding an alternative for 2009.”
Mpumalanga Province sponsored and hosted the 2008 Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup following the end of a 10-year sponsorship deal with SABMiller.
South Africa are the defending Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup champions after beating Mozambique 2-1 in the final played in Thulamahashe on August 3, 2008.
Chabipa nokumfwa mwe.Lets hope some country will step in to host the tounament
what can I say
Lets hope another province will come on board and host the games.
Can I offer you guys my backyard for you to host the COSAFA games on condition that you maintain the grass. Also no leftovers bane.
MUNTUZA, mmmm i heard ati your house is so small that when u go through the front door you are already in the backyard..so may be actually your yard is big enough coming to think of it.. hahahaha much love man
Our zed so poor that we dont have a single proper stadium sure? after 44yrs of independence???
We can host it after our stadia and government are upgraded. So give us two more years.
Why cant zed take up the challenge?
Sure ZED can take up this challenge. We have some stadia not in very bad shape. Nkoloma, Sun set and woodlands. We are really starved of tournaments in ZED.