Women�s football meets BFA over referee concerns
Kabelo Boranabi | Thursday September 8, 2016 14:59
League secretary, Oaitse Moeti said among issues that were to be discussed is the standard of match officiating in the league.
“We are meeting the BFA today (Wednesday) for the first time since they were elected into office.
We will discuss the status of women’s football in the country. We have our daily challenges, which we would put before the executive committee,” Moeti told Mmegi Sport yesterday. He said the level of officiating in the women’s league is worrying.
There have been cases in the past where matches were postponed while some started after the scheduled time due to the unavailability of late arrival of match officials. Moeti said the league committee would propose that the women’s league be responsible for the payment of match officials.
“The main priority of the meeting would be refereeing. The BFA has been handling the referees’ payments and this has in a way affected some of the games more especially when they (referees) were not given allowances on time. We cannot blame the referees in this case because they use the money for transport and other logistics.
So we would propose to the mother body to hand us the responsibility of paying the match officials because we are hands on with the day to day running of the league,” he said.
He also revealed that the league, which was supposed to start on September 16 has been moved to October 8 to pave way for the country’s 50th independence celebrations.
“Most of our players are school children and they are taking part in Independence Day activities.
This has affected the league because players have minimum time to train with their respective teams. We then took a decision that would benefit our teams.”
“We would, however, face a problem of finishing the league on time. Despite the Independence Day celebrations we would also be affected by the international breaks so we would have to look for a way to counter this problem,” Moeti said. The Women’s Super League has been without a sponsor for three seasons. The north teams’ committee has in the past complained about being sidelined and yesterday’s meeting could mark a new dawn for women’s football.