Editorial Cartoon
Toto, which struggled to regain top flight status after two seasons
in the First Division League (FDL), looks completely out of shape and
unable to prepare for the premiership.
Regaining top flight status involves various factors, mainly
resources which are always scarce. However, despite the adversity the
club has endured for all this long, members of the club don’t seem to
see what this means.
It was all quiet and peaceful as the club fought to rejoin the top,
but the remarkable comeback appears to be a curse and the beginning of
disharmony.
Toto is now a house of disharmony, and nobody can believe that the
club is seriously preparing for the competitive soccer league season.
Media headlines keep showing how unstable the club is, courtesy of
the endless wrangling. Election dates have been given several times but
there is simply no indication of agreement between rival factions within
the Mwanza-based club.
Members of the club have always been divided alongside two
diametrically opposite poles, depending on whether supports Yanga or
Simba – the Dar es Salaam-based archrivals and presumed national giants.
When Toto featured in the Mainland premiership some four years ago,
its faithfuls willingly dug deep into their pockets to raise over 19m/-
to “cushion” the club against the possibility of relegation.
They managed to scrape through and keep their premiership status
afloat, before falling dead the very subsequent season. All this proves
how ardently its members and well wishers care about the club’s
premiership survival and- again – how easily they are let down.
It is not known how much the club spent towards the campaign meant
to assure it on a premiership berth, but it must have been a colossal
amount.
If so, what was the use of spending so much and then fail to
overcome internal friction that would again rattle the whole plan of
keeping the club in the premiership?
The next prediction for Toto Africa is a possible worse start of
the season and this would eventually culminate into other complications
to herald another league survival campaign. For how long would this
syndrome persist?
This is the time to make proper use of heads in thinking of the
optimal way to manage the club and devise a winning strategy. The club
must resolve the prevailing disputes amicably while lining up a winning
outfit in the upcoming soccer season.
Toto Africa is the only club in Mwanza in the premiership, which
means it is the only with any chance of making soccer lovers in the city
really enjoy the league – and the game millions across the world love
and adore.
Problems caused by the love for either Yanga or Simba, there is the
issue of how sponsorship packages from Vodacom Tanzania are spent. It
is well known that this remains a real cause for concern.
We see no problem here that dialogue and good management cannot
solve. And we wonder why those in leadership positions can’t sit
together for once and talk harmony and meaningful development. They must
do so now or the club will have committed suicide.
SOURCE:
THE GUARDIAN
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