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The journey that Jonathan Mashingaidze traveled as ZIFA CEO . . .

2004

He gets his first appointment as ZIFA CEO by the Rafik Khan Leadership and plays a key role in the saga that leads to the suspension, and eventual ban, of seven councilors including Francis Zimunya.

2006

He is sucked in the 2006 world cup ticket scam, where tickets for the global football showcase end up being sold, at grossly inflated prices on the black market and in August that year, he is suspended from his job.

2009

After three years at the sidelines, he bounces back at ZIFA, after the Association fails to sustain their legal battle against him, and – given that someone had already taken his job- he accepts to work in the backroom at 53 Livingstone Avenue.

2010

He bounces back as ZIFA CEO, after the suspension and subsequent expulsion of Henrietta Rushwaya over the Asiagate match – fixing scam and transforms himself as the then ZIFA president Cuthbert Dube’s right- hand man, a loyal lieutenant who is his boss’ all-weather friend

2013

He finds himself in a fix, with one newspaper even accusing him of lying, after it is proven that, contrary to his claims, he did not send documents related to the Asiagate scam, which was being demanded by FIFA, to enable the world football governing body to bring closure to the case.

2014

He is I involved in a nasty public fallout with the then warriors’ coach Ian Gorowa, who calls him a “HABITUAL LIAR” while former Warriors fitness trainer Gerald Maguranyanga, is even more damming in his criticism as he describes Mashingaidze as a “PATHOLOGICAL LIAR.”

2015

He plunges into the eye of a hurricane, but somehow survives, after the Warriors are banned from the 2018 World Cup qualifiers amid reports from FIFA that a number of warnings sent to ZIFA piled up on his desk despite the gravity of their contents. ZIFA’s longest serving Councilor, Brain Chishanga, publicity calls for his dismissal and other Councilors sign a petition calling for his removal.

2016

After surviving Dube’s dismissal, he appears –like the proverbial cat with nine lives-to be safe after ZIFA boss Philip Chiyangwa says his job is safe but FOUR months after the fall of Dube, he is told his services are no longer required as his contract is not renewed.