Wanderers eye 2017 CAF league
Mighty Be Forward Wanderers are set to emulate their rivals Big Bullets by taking aim at the 2017 CAF Champions League participation, general secretary Michael Butao has disclosed.
“We need to be ready in all aspects because we would want to participate to try and win it, not just to participate. We would want to fund our own way through the tournament so we would need at least two years to build financial capacity. That means even now, as we speak, we are already preparing for that,” Butao explained.
Wanderers, who last participated in the continental league campaign in the 1990s, are envying the Bullets who have defied financial odds to qualify for the first round and date Al Hilal of Sudan in mid-March.
Butao added that the Bullets’ adventure has given the Nomads some valuable lessons including that “when the will is there, it is possible to participate.”
The Nomads GS added that there are also lessons that “one needs a lot of organisation and considerable own resources to participate in such tournaments otherwise you spend all your time and energy going from door to door fundraising.”
Butao also took a swipe at the corporate world that it can only be relied upon “when the sport is golf, not football.”
Silver Strikers general secretary Mike Tembo yesterday said they had learnt a lot from Bullets’ participation in the Champions League including that there is limited support from FAM and Sulom.
Tembo could not say whether they have their own CAF league participation dream in the near future.
