WINDHOEK – Charismatic newly elected President of the Namibia Football Association (NFA), Frans Mbidi, is certainly a man on a serious mission.
Mbidi will address his first meeting with fellow new NFA executive members since he took over the reigns at Football House during the much-anticipated NFA Congress in Windhoek on Saturday.
Local football followers are waiting with bated breath to see whether Mbidi will keep to his word and deliver on promises enlisted in the election manifesto, promising to include some of those who opposed him during the heated NFA Elective Congress last year.
Under Mbidi’s stewardship, the NFA is expected to make several crucial adjustments to its somewhat fragile constitution with the proposals for the imminent establishment of standing committees within the structures of the association topping the agenda.
However, ongoing rumours of an underground syndicate allegedly hell-bent on disrupting NFA functions could derail the process. Sources close to the rumoured syndicate revealed to New Era Sport that unnamed disgruntled members have an axe to grind with those they pointed out as having played a hand in Ranga Haikali’s failed attempt to wrestle power from the powers that be at Football House.
The group is ostensibly out to dislodge incumbent Namibia Premier League chairman, Johnny “JJD” Doeseb, from the pedestal. The mooted idea to chalk off Doeseb is ostensibly strategically tailored for the latter to make space for Haikali to enter the fray, as acting chairman of the NPL en route to the mandatory seat on the NFA executive.
The name of Tim Isaacs has been thrown into the debacle with the disgruntled group calling for his immediate removal from the NPL Management Committee (MC) citing conflict of interest. Bra TY’s longstanding intimate link with the country’s football governing body is interpreted as the apple of discord by his distracters.