Kirsty Coventry fights in SRC’s corner

Philemon Jambaya

Minister of Sport, Arts, and Recreation, Kirsty Coventry, has thrown her weight behind the Sports and Recreation Commission for suspending the Felton Kamambo-led Zimbabwe Football Association board.

In a question and answer session in Parliament yesterday, Coventry said her ministry has never asked Fifa to lift the suspension because it does not want the embargo to be lifted at this point.

“We have accepted that (the ban),” she said. “We have never asked them (Fifa) to lift it.

“We don’t want them to lift it at this point until we clear and clean up our soccer.

“We are not going to do what other members may say,” Coventry said.

The suspension has seen Zimbabwe failing to participate in Confederation of African Football and Fifa-sanctioned matches.