The rapidly growing popularity of various sports codes across the globe has made many a sports administrator to become self-centered, greedy and power hungry, to say the least.
The arrogant attitude so prevelent among dozens of elected sports administrators and officials, who of late have made it their sole beat to remain intact in positions of power way beyond their welcome, can no longer be tolerated, so time is up now to call a spade a spade and not a large spoon.
It goes beyond comprehension why some people always think that they were born to lead others until they blow their last breath from the game of life on this universe.
All right thinking sports codes, teams and affiliates must learn to gently usher their leaders through the exit door when they find themselves in the comfort zone, leading them to the false belief that they are untouchable, thus becoming arrogant and in the process forgetting to serve the interests of their subjects.
The problem facing our sport is that we have hopelessly too many people in positions of power with very little understanding on good corporate governance and accountability.
Truth be told, genuine experts recognize the limits of what they know and what they do not know and should they find themselves outside their circle of competence, they keep their lips zipped and simply say; “I don’t’ know”.
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to separate true knowledge from chauffeur knowledge. The latter is the type of blokes who seat comfortably at the steering wheel of sports entities whose daily functions they barely fathom.
There seems to be a serious flaw in reasoning from certain quarters within the hierarchy of Namibian boxing that since people are not complaining openly about the current status quo and shenanigans within local boxing, things are in apple pie order.
Utter rubbish, the jack is out! Your subjects are gatvol and rightly agitated by the inexcusable habits of sports authorities’ constant failure to facilitate Elective Congresses while having developed a nasty habit of dribbling their way past the burning issue of accountability.
Dear readers, how can we dodge the self-serving bias within our sports fraternity? Sports administrators need to ask themselves whether they have genuine buddies who tell them the naked truth – no holds barred?
Sports codes on a fool’s errand
Is it perhaps not time for some of the country’s leading sporting disciplines to engage in the path of retrospection, swallow their pride and revisit their marketing strategies, I’m just asking.
Without an iota of doubt, there is an absolute desire to take leaf out of the National Rugby Union’s (NRU) book and follow suit.
Following years in the wilderness, cousined by self-imposed exile from the elite inhabitants of our beloved land of the brave, NRU has eventually made a U-turn and sponsors are now coming in thick and fast at Lichtenstein Strasse.
This sudden turn of fortunes can be attributed the Union’s well thought undertaking to rope in the services of vibrant and fairly young chirpy, going by the name of Sybrand de Beer.
Needless to remind you that De Beer not only possesses the required administrative acumen at this level, the brother understands the culture of the subject at hand and communicates in the spoken tongue of those who controls the purse strings of our economy, period!
It’s against this background that yours truly humbly suggests that football, boxing and other financially crippled sports codes appoint people with a clear understanding of marketing, blokes who are well positioned to win the respect and confidence of potential sponsors. I rest my case.