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Grace Chingoma Senior Sports Reporter
ZIMBABWE international striker Edward Sadomba has added his voice on the ZIFA election and urged councillors to help change the game by turning it into a business.

Sadomba also joined former Warriors skipper Peter Ndlovu and George Mbwando in lending his support for Edzai Kasinauyo’s candidature for the ZIFA board.

The former Dynamos and Al Hilal speed merchant said he had taken a keen interest in the election and remained hopeful that Kasinauyo would make it.

Kasinauyo is eyeing one of the four board members posts in the crucial ZIFA presidential election in Harare tomorrow.

The other members vying for the posts are Musa Gwasira, Lewis Uriri, Piraishe Mabhena, Wilfred Mukuna, Felton Kamambo, Philemon Machana, Musa Mandaza, Jackson Munyaka and Joseph Musariri.

And yesterday Sadomba rallied behind Kasinauyo.

“Business and companies market their products though advertising on television globally when the match is live, for example, giants companies like Coca Cola and Adidas are associated with FIFA.

“I think it is high time our football grows at club and national level. It has to attract more foreign players and coaches to come and play in Zimbabwe.

“Football isn’t just a sport, it creates employment, reduces poverty, and crime, reduces taxation to companies who are sponsoring.

“It also markets the country, for instance, my teammates always ask me what’s the best thing in Zimbabwe, I tell them ‘visit, you will enjoy one of the seven wonders of the world, Victoria Falls.’

“And having a guy like Edzai on the board is good because he has the experience of doing that.”

Last weekend, Peter Ndlovu took time off his busy schedule at Mamelodi Sundowns and came to attend the launch of Kasinauyo’s manifesto. The Flying Elephant endorsed Kasinauyo and supported him and said it is the way to go for former footballers to be involved in the trenches.

In 2010, Ndlovu and the former Moroka Swallows midfielder Kasinauyo, were the brand ambassadors of the inaugural Volkswagen Junior Masters tournament.

They later accompanied the team to Spain for the Junior World Masters soccer tournament in Madrid and Zimbabwe together with South Africa, Egypt and Morocco were the African teams at the Under-13 tournament.

The same year he was also the team manager for the inaugural Youth Olympics Games held in Singapore as his stock with junior football continued to rise.

A few months ago, Kasinauyo was in Germany with a schools select from the Conference of Heads of Independent Schools of Zimbabwe which featured in matches with some juniors sides from Bundesliga such as Werder Bremen.