Business Plan 2014 -2024
Zimbabwe Football Development Academy- Centre of Football Excellence 2014 is a subsidiary company of Kakunguwo Holdings Ltd registered in Harare, Zimbabwe. Our HQ will be at Queensdale School in Harare until we build our own Centre of Football Excellence in the future in Kadoma. We are publicly visible and accessible on Facebook and Youtube. Our colours are red, blue with yellow stripes.
Our Business;
We identify and train players from several schools registered to work in partnership with us to achieve the organisational goal and national football goal. We recruit and train U6,U8,U10,U12,U14 & U16 as our 10 year Player Development Plan.
We aim to be a leading grassroots provider in the country as we get involved during term time and holidays if we have football tournaments.
We train players ranging from 5 to 16 years on a Ten Year Development Plan using an Academy Progress Diary and our own iTouch brand.
We have experienced coaches who we call Galaxy coaches as they sacrifice their time and money for this project to be successfull and for talented children to have a chance in a football future.Our coaches will work alongside teachers in schools to identify and promote sports as part of the Ministry of Education and Culture curriculum in 2015. Our Motto is “let teachers teach education and let academy coaches train children to play iTouch football. It is my passion and hope that we bring a career to a child at an early age so that we build a better future for children in Zimbabwe. This has been a well thought plan of action to rescue Zimbabwe`s football by engaging in grassroots football hence schools like Chemhanza Secondary from Hwedza are being successful. As we focus on a broad perspective we would like all schools` football standards raised through our coaching and expertise.
Objectives;
To train young players how to playing using the Spanish Soccer Schools Programme with the emphasis of keeping possession, playing short passes and playing entertaining football like the Spanish National team and Barcelona team. Players will be encouraged to express themselves however with the emphasis of maintaining possession and controlling the match by keeping the ball with the other team defending all the time.
Players will also be asked to play from the goalkeeper thereby encouraging short passes and team play as they build their attacking prowess following the concept of triangles of play during passage of play all the time.
Coaches will be asked to follow the FA Four corners of football which are Physical, Psychological, Social and Technical when coaching young players.
Our Brand;
Our iTouch type of football is a Zimbabwean tiki taka (total football), which was launched by this academy as our football DNA and football identity. Our main emphasis is players having full control of the game, short passes, more goals, more possession of the ball, strong defending, player movement and quick unpredictable attacking based on three zones RED, YELLOW and GREEN.
It will be called passage of play and zonal marking or playing. Players will be encouraged to play in triangles of play and defence all the time.
Coaches are required to train session using this style of play all the time.
We aim to elevate our brand to the national level then global level with success in our technically focussed players.
We will focus on FA 4 corners, Social, Physical, Technical and Psychological aspects of the game. Coaches, Players, Parents, Teachers& Public
Our galaxy coaches will remain pivotal in their role to promote our academy and brand in any Centre of Football Excellence where they are Head of Football Development. Their role will be to identify, train, groom, develop and nurture a talented football player who will benefit not only himself but his family, school, club and national team. Parents, teachers and coaches will work in a triage in order to develop a player for the future game.
All our galaxy coaches will have police clearance and ZIFA qualifications at grassroots level and their attitudes to training children will be a beacon and hope for the future game. Coaches who are found operating in conflict of the academy vision and philosophy runs the risk of being expelled or convicted in the court of law depending on the complaint lodged. Coaches must not bring the academy name and business in disrepute whenever they are conducting their day to day business either on or off the field as we are a community project. No Smoking policy will remain a key to coaches’ attitude before, during and after sessions. Honesty, Integrity and Transparency Policies will guide all individuals employed by the academy as laid out in their contracts.
All coaches will be employed on a 2 year contract subject to performance of their centre and keeping up to date with modern football coaching.
Coach and Player of the Month competitions will be conducted as a tool to motivate our personnel and players to do more.
Coaching sessions are available on our Youtube channel and facebook page. Coaches will be required to pay a subscription fees of $10 annually to stay on our register as coaches and members. Coaches will have full responsibility of their centre’s training equipment and will need to meet the minimum academy standards.
BUDGET AND FINANCE
We are a Non profit making organisation with the goal to develop grassroots football in Zimbabwe and developing the communities which are underdeveloped in football.
The academy will have a bank account known as Academy Investment Fund where registration fees, subscription fees, donations, sponsorships will be deposited and accounted for by our Treasurer Besten Matope and Technical Director Bright Jonas.
As agreed in the last AGM that children will be charged $10 per term to register their interest to train sessions with our academy and the Headmaster of every school will collect and post this money using Ecocash to our Treasurer in HQ Harare.
In small towns and rural areas children will be charged reduced registration fees of $5 and $2 depending on a decision agreed by the School Development Committees.
In urban areas children will be charged $1 per session per hour and rural areas and small towns they will pay 50 cents or US1 for 2 sessions.
The academy investment fund will help coaches in the centres with the equipment and training aids.
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds who are HIV positive and orphans will be exempted from both registration and session fees.
We aim to give back to the community by supporting disadvantaged intelligent children with school and health fees as part of our community development policy.
Strategic aims;
We have five strategic aims which are:
To provide a safe and effective football coaching.
To build an engaged workforce of coaches which we focus on controlling and passing of the ball for young players.
To continuously improve the quality and productivity of our services.
To deliver excellent personalized iTouch play, training and support.
To become a leading football provider and developer of choice nationwide
To help us achieve our objectives we have a set of core values that underpin everything we do:
Our statement of purpose is:
Let the teachers teach and let our coaches train excellent football.
At Zimbabwe Football Development Academy we are here to do everything we can to make the difference to the lives of young players in our community and their football skills through delivering the best sessions.
Values
We value all young players as we do not discriminate whether boys or girls are treated equally.
Togetherness
Teamwork, mutual respect and trust sit at the heart of everything we do here. Our coaches, young players and their parents are an integral part of the academy.
Responsibility
When we say we’re going to do something, we do it. We don’t leave it to someone else to do. Our coaches and young players are responsible for delivering our programme at its utmost.
Excellence
We strive for excellence in everything we do. ‘Good enough’ is simply not good enough. Excellent is our main goal. The performances of our coaches and our young players is our number one priority.
Caring
Caring means more than showing compassion to our young players and each other as individuals. It’s also about having a can-do attitude, stepping up and caring to be the best we can. Because we care, we give praise when it’s due
Board of Directors;
Our Board consists of several members who will be appointed by the Chief Executive Officer based on experience and performance of their centre throughout the year.
We will be guided by our constitution as our mandate to the game of football in Zimbabwe.
Each year in June or thereafter the Board will call for an Annual General Meeting involving all members before another meeting is called for involving all coaches, teachers, parents and players.
Academy Ambassador Rudo Neshamba will be invited to these meetings and will also represent female footballers in our business.
The role of the Board will be to make sound decisions for the academy and players based on evidence within the football industry in Zimbabwe.
Members can be fired from the Board following other Board member’s decision during a Disciplinary Committee (Board).
All members of involved in the academy are subject to disciplinary procedures in order to protect children from being subjected abuse during or after sessions.
ZIFA Affiliation;
We will abide by the rules and regulations of Zimbabwe Football Association and remain affiliated as it is law in football. We will encourage ZIFA to regulate and insist on football academies to be licensed with ZIFA.
It will be the responsibility of the Board to regulate and get our affiliation fees paid up annually.
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
No Smoking Policy, Health and Safety, Child Protection Policy, Bullying and Harassment, Communication Policy, Health and Education Policy, Fair Play, Right to Play, Finance Policy, Advanced Coach Skills Policy, HIV and Orphans Policy, Community Development Policy, Diversity Policy.
Academy Board of Directors;
Lord Morris Kakunguwo, Chief Executive Officer ,Chairman of the Board, United Kingdom .
Mr Bright Jonas (Director & Technical Director),
Mr Wadzanai Lesley Katsande, Public Relations Officer
Mr Ronald Kakunguwo ( Director & Academy Football Commissioner),
Mr Elliot Chitiyo, Head of Football in Chitungwiza,
Miss Rudo Neshamba (Ambassador & Head of Women Football Development in Zimbabwe),
Mr Benjamin Pasula,Perfomance Manager &Head of Football for Mashonaland West
Mr Kennedy Nherera, Managing Director & Head of Football in Mashonaland Province
Mr Webster Mudzingwa, Director & Welfare Officer, Zimbabwe.
Mr. Itai Matsika, Director and Head of Football in Zengeza
CONTACTS
+447576692669 Lord Morris Kakunguwo, Chief Executive Officer ,Chairman of the Board, United Kingdom
+263773989582 Mr Kennedy Nherera, Managing Director & Head of Football Development( Hatcliffe & Borrowdale)
+263774336439 Mr Bright Jonas (Director & Technical Director)
+263734186963 Elliot Chitiyo Coach
