Women football committee summons SA-based pros
National Women Football Committee (NWFC) has said it will summon Loveness Nyakamera and Chrissy Kasiya alongside their agent Prince Jere to explain why they signed a deal with South African club Kanatala Ladies without the committee’s consent.
Nyakamera and Kasiya are in the country on off-season break and they are expected to return to South Africa next month to complete their one-year contract with the team.
However, according to NWFC chairperson Severia Chalira, the hearing which might lead to disciplinary action against the three, would determine whether the players will return to Kanatala Ladies where, apart from playing football, they have also been offered academic scholarships.
“It is fortunate that they (the players) have returned home safely. But we could have been in trouble, as the local women football mother body, had they faced difficulties such as illness in South Africa. Nobody would have believed that we were not involved and we were not aware of the deals,” said Chalira.
She, therefore, said they will summon the players to a hearing next week to educate them on this danger and to caution the agent on his continued violation of player transfer regulations.
“If we do nothing on this matter, the players will see it as a normal practice and the agent will continue violating the laws and abusing clubs that develop the players,” she said.
Jere and Kasiya could not be reached for comment until we went to press.
The two players joined Kanatala Ladies in the middle of the 2013 season and helped the team win the Pretoria Province championship in September.
On her part, Nyakamera said she is ready to attend the hearing and she is keen to be enlightened on international player transfer laws.
“This was my first time to play in a foreign land. I do not know much about player transfers. However, I enjoyed my stay in South Africa and I will work hard to do better when I go back in January,” said Nyakamera.
According to Nyakamera, the two are expected back in South Africa on January 4 for the 2014 Sasol League season and they have been offered scholarships at Capricorn University.
Striker Nyakamera, 22, scored 29 goals in the 10 games she featured and is set to study electrical engineering whereas 21-year-old winger Kasiya scored nine goals in five appearances and will pursue a course in accounting.
