Circus has reached its crescendo

The circus that characterised the appointment of the Flames coach seems to be reaching its crescendo as the towering Belgian, Ronny van Geneugden, finally arrived on Thursday under strict conditions not to speak to the press.

Barely a week after unveiling Gerald Phiri Senior and Derklerk Msakakuona as head coach and his assistant respectively, the two were demoted to the role of assistant coaches even before their team kicked a ball.

This week, the nation had been waiting with abated breath for the arrival of a new coach, who possibly does not know the pressure that goes with coaching the national soccer team, if his short resume that I have seen is anything to go by.

To the chagrin of many soccer pundits, the identity of the coach has been treated with a lot of secrecy as if he is a god of football.

Whoever comes to coach the team is none of my business because some of us can foresee that this soap opera will end in disaster.

I can say, without fear of contradiction, that the inconsistencies and amateurism that characterised the appointment of the Flames coach, reflects how sick and amateurish the football mother body is.

Time has come for Malawi football administrators to know that in the 21th century, soccer is serious business and needs to be treated with utmost seriousness and transparency.

Football administrators have made it frustrating and torturous for some of us to love football especially in this country where the word shame has completely lost its meaning among our football administrators.

Sometimes it baffles me that the whole bunch of learned people can fail to come up with proper decisions on football matters and especially when the FA President and his General Secretary contradict each other in the press on a simple issue of appointing a national soccer team.

Fam has tested us to a limit and we can longer bear such inconsistencies and unprofessional ways of administering the game which Brazilian football legend, Pele called beautiful.

I have to emphasise that our hybrid of football administrators have lost their value in as far as football administration is concerned.

And to imagine that the country can trust such people to have the muscle to run the affairs of the game is the biggest joke of the century. They can do better than reducing themselves to a mere circus.