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METI to offer scholarships to footballers, athletes

Malawi News Agency (MANA)

Modern Education and Training Institute (METI) says it will start offering scholarships to footballers and other athletes in the country to prepare them for life after retirement.

In an interview on Thursday, METI’s Academic Director, Isaac Mazaza Jere, said they signed a five-year partnership with Football Players Association of Malawi (FPAM) to offer scholarships to football players.

He said the scholarships would help athletes to secure descent jobs as well as venture into various businesses after quitting the sports profession.

“We found out that the football profession is good for players when they are physically strong but when something happens, such as injury, players suffer financially.

“So we want to train them in technical vocational skills and other courses such as journalism, television production and business administration so that if something happens to them, they should be able to secure a job and sustain their lives,” said Jere.

Jere explained that METI will be offering scholarships in journalism to five footballers, two netballers and two athletes from other sports disciplines every academic year.

He added that in television production, ten footballers, five netballers and five athletes will be offered sponsorship while five footballers, two netballers and two athletes will be drilled in screen printing.

The 2017 Super League Champions Be Forward Wanderers Player, Jimmy Zakazaka, said at last football players in the country would have the chance to build a brighter future with the scholarships.

“Let me commend METI for coming up with this initiative because through these scholarships, we will be able to go back to school and learn various skills that will help us in the near future,” Zakazaka said.

FPAM’s Chairperson, Alfred Lungu, said the scholarships would uplift the welfare of footballers in the country.

Modern Education and Training Institute (METI) is a private education and training institution that provides various courses

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Football Players’ Association of Malawi finally registered. ..sets to address player welfare…..

Maravi Post Reporter

By Rabson Woodwell

BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-Football Players’ Association of Malawi (FPAM) which has now been registered after its eight month thought period is said to address issues of player welfare in the country.

General Secretary of the Association Ernest Mangani in an interview said the Association will address issues concerning the life of football players both on pitch and when they stop playing football.

“We are talking of players who cannot sustain their lives after football career. You might agree with me that players have been given tight schedules for games, players getting injured, and some players also have salaries that cannot sustain themselves and we will put structures to address those issues.” Mangani explained.

And on the question that perhaps Football Association of Malawi (FAM) would have an influence on the activities of this body, the GS said FPAM is an independent Association and that FAM will not in any way interfere with their duties apart from that FAM is the mother body who initiated the opening of this body.

For many years in Malawi players have been complaining about poor welfare and there have been cases of players failing to get good treatment when they are sick and some of them not even getting help in times of death, and it has really been a big challenge to really handle injuries of players.

Sometimes players being used even when they have an injury which has affected their lives. Remember these are the people who generate money for clubs in Malawi and they deserve good treatment.

The organization is expected to be officially launched in January, 2018