South African Football Association (SAFA) president Kirsten Nematandani tried to downplay fears that SAFA spies on all soccer officials. SAFA only spies on some of them. Duly noted.
SAFA vice-president Shoes Mazibuko and Danny Jordaan, former chief executive of the 2010 World Cup Local Organizing Committee, recently found monitoring devices in their respective vehicles. Already, SAFA has confirmed that its financial director, Gronie Hluyo, instructed the fleet management department to install the monitoring devices. Who knew that financial directors were also responsible for monitoring?
SAFA’s president expressed surprise at the fact that Mazibuko and Jordaan were monitored since their fleet of cars should only be monitored for administration purposes. You know, to ensure that the proper paperwork was being filled out by those using the cars … or something like that. Nematandani hoped to quell a firestorm, stating, “I think what fell short here was that the guys did not apply their mind, they just applied it across board. It’s not supposed to… There’s no reason why we should monitor [them].”
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Next time the folks in the fleet management department need to think through who gets monitored.
My suggestion for the US Soccer Federation? It’s time to reassess your financial director position because there could be a place for advanced monitoring techniques in player monitoring. Perhaps we could use ankle bracelets to monitor player movement to determine whether youth players are negotiating with other federations. We should be doing everything in our power to keep every youth player in the States. We can’t afford to let countries like South Africa gain the upper hand.
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