Int'l company to set up football academy here

Botswana’s football development is likely to receive a major boost following a last week’s CAF Extraordinary General Assembly held in Cairo, Egypt.  

The meeting was attended by Botswana Football Association (BFA) president MacLean Letshwiti and his chief executive officer Kitso Kemoeng.  Letshwiti and Kemoeng used the opportunity to engage stakeholders and their counterparts to progress the growth and development of football in Botswana.

“The most prominent of the engagements was an international company that is keen to invest on a football academy in Botswana and linking it to another international academy that the company hosts in Switzerland,” a statement from the BFA reads. Moreover, the BFA stated that more details about the unnamed   company will be revealed in due course.

“Further engagements on this matter shall be in the form of a visit by the   company to Botswana to have a first hand appreciation of the BFA’s and   country’s football vision.” According to the BFA, the Botswana delegation embarked in further engagement with counterparts over various international structures including the Council of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA), CAF and FIFA.

Following an engagement with the FIFA president Gianni Infantino and his newly appointed Secretary Fatima Samoura, the Botswana Delegation was invited to visit the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland for further engagements and a more detailed induction on FIFA programmes and projects