Kausiyo appointed to club licensing committee

Philemon Jambaya

Sunday Mail Sports Editor Petros Kausiyo, popularly known as Pablo in the media fraternity, has been appointed in a five-member Premier Soccer League club licensing committee to assess clubs for compliance ahead of the resumption of topflight football after a month-long break.

Kausiyo has been appointed along Emmanuel Dlodlo, Shame Chibvongodze, Elizabeth Mukabeta and Joyce Kapota.

PSL chief executive officer, Kennedy Ndebele last Wednesday wrote to the clubs, advising them of the new committee and its mandate.

“This serves to advise that the Premier Soccer League has set up an independent club licensing committee to assist and monitor club licensing compliance by PSL clubs. The committee will be visiting clubs from July 1, 2023 to assess the level of club licensing compliance,” Ndebele said.

“Club licensing has been a big challenge; we are still lagging behind. It is not something that we can really say we are happy with,” Ndebele said at the time.

“Probably, the result of that is you see; some of the clubs went bankrupt, defunct and are no longer in existence. It is because of the lack of implementation of the club licensing regulations. There is need for everyone involved, the stakeholders right from Caf, Zifa, the Premier Soccer League and the clubs to really put the benchmarks and stick to them so that we are able to implement the club licensing system,” reads part of the letter.