First introduced for the tip of April, then postponed to Might 15 and rescheduled for this Saturday, Might 18, a couple of hours from the indicated date, nobody may say with precision if the ball will roll once more this weekend on the lawns of the stadiums accepted for the 2023-2024 season of the nationwide soccer championship.
There’s anticipation and confusion within the minds of soccer followers, within the face of the silence and secrecy cultivated by elite soccer managers, relating to the beginning introduced for this weekend of the nationwide soccer championship. first and second division soccer.
It’s a nice curiosity to look at that a couple of hours earlier than the fateful date, there isn’t any identified competitors schedule, nor even the slightest official program of the weekend’s matches is offered; simply because the sporting public is aware of nearly nothing concerning the organizational preparations in accepted stadiums which additionally stay an enigma.
No official communication has been made thus far on the query by the Nationwide Skilled Soccer League (LINAFP), whose leaders and people of the ministerial supervision elsewhere, who had nonetheless given assurances lately on the beginning , on Might 15 earlier than rescheduling for the 18th, nationwide soccer following a summit assembly with the president of the transition.
In keeping with sure indiscretions, the sinews of the struggle are on the coronary heart of all these hesitations and ‘ignition delays’as a result of non-availability of all or a part of the funding promised to the elite groups and even to the organizer, Linafp.
Questioned on the query, sure membership leaders confirmed having obtained not one of the stated funding and being unable to enter their groups in any competitors. Different sources near the governing our bodies of nationwide soccer and usually nicely knowledgeable, point out different technical and logistical considerations not resolved thus far, once more as a result of lack of funding.
In public opinion, the umpteenth possible postponement of nationwide soccer, one too many which is looming on the horizon for causes talked regarding above, goes down very badly to the extent that, on the finish of the assembly on the presidential palace, assurances had been made information on the financing of the elite championship this season, because of sources from the social and environmental accountability (CSR) of oil firms supported by UPEGA, the Gabonese Petroleum Union.
Within the occasion of an additional postponement, there may be each motive to worry a definitive demobilization of energies at a time of yr when in actuality persons are craving for trip and the place, nearly in all places on the continent and elsewhere, the sports activities season is nearly at its finish.
It must be remembered that in Gabon, the championship has not been performed for greater than 4 seasons because the outbreak of the well being disaster regarding Covid-19.
Alph’-Willem Eslie
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