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Our love for suffering

Have you ever heard of an inspirational story from our football national team, the Flames? If you have, how did it start, did it start with the team playing brilliant football, attacking with exceptional talent and giving the hope that we would carry the day or emerge victorious in that tournament? I bet it really started like that. The question is: how did it end? I can predict: with all those hopes dashed, a loss in the dying minutes. Poet Robert Chiwamba already covered the fate of the team in the famed Flames Sidzamva ! It is not as if he recited anything new, he told us what has been our football ailment since about 10 years ago when it became so worse. The loss of our football national team, now, is a result of a lot of issues among them uninspired an underpaid players, alcohol-infested players, a negative media (yes! a negative media) and - most importantly - football administrators. These football administrators, usually, are behind the other problems. They fleece t