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18 October, 2023
ZAMBIA HOCKEY ON THE VERGE OF BEING FINED AND BANNED
Zambia Hockey Association (ZHA) is next week scheduled to participate in the men’s and women’s Olympic qualifiers in Pretoria, South Africa from October 29 to November 5.
The two teams have been training and working hard to make sure they make the nation proud by qualifying for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Equally on the other side, the Association Executive has been working around the clock to make the trip to South Africa a success by engaging the biggest stakeholder government.
After several meetings, the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Art indicated they would support accommodation while ZHA will handle transport, camping, purchasing of the competition kit and all other logistics which was a big relief.
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However, the Ministry yesterday advised us they can only support transport, which has already been secured by the ZHA leaving the Association once more in distress.
Sadly there is no strategic intervention from the National Sports Council of Zambia over such important events like Olympic Qualifiers which should be the Ministry’s priority leading up to the Paris Games, we feel Sports Council is absent especially when we need them the most.
For the two teams (Men’s and Women’s) and officials for 11 days, the association is looking for K460,000 to cover costs associated with accommodation and food.
It will be disappointing for the country if the team fails to travel for the qualifiers after the association and the players put in a lot of work and effort.
We are making a distress call to the President of the Republic of Zambia and the corporate world to come to the aid of the two teams to help with covering the accommodation costs while they represent the country in the qualifiers of the Paris 2022 Olympics.
Failure to participate at the qualifiers will attract a fine of 5, 000 Euros per team which will be around K225, 000 and a possible two years ban for the teams from all international engagements.
Issued By;
Hazel Kennedy
Zambia Hockey Association – President
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