Following in 2015, the most serious crisis ever known in the annals of our sport-king, and whose consequences are lived today, football through certain gluttonous actors is rather on the roof of the Court of Arbitration for Sports (Tas) than on the roof of Africa to the chagrin of supporters and an entire people.
The sentence of the Tas of Monday, March 6, 2023 should lead all the actors of Malian football back to the vestibule where the sacred union is consecrated and this, thanks to the virtues of dialogue, of consensus in the service of the general and exclusive interest of football. As bequeathed by our ancestors. Here, the questions of governance will find their solutions in the respect and in the application of the decisions resulting from the deliberations of the apex body.
On analysis, the squabbles of certain sports leaders – Fémafoot have had insidiously and in the medium term negative effects on the level of football both at the local level and more generally on the uneven performance at the African and international level. Indeed, it is not or would not be exaggerated to affirm that our representatives no longer look at the top of continental football or in any case with difficulty since the very serious crisis of 2015. However, at the same time, the executive committee of the Malian Football Federation regularly elected in 2019 under the control of the Standardization Committee (Conor) is at work on major projects – renovation of governance through new texts – promotion of regional leagues and women’s football – construction a Sports Technical Center, among others. All for the benefit of Malian football. Thus, therefore beyond the altogether understandable grievances, the actors of Malian football are expected to take up the challenges at the national level first to ensure the sustainability of the presence and the strength of our clubs and national teams and then in the gotha. African and international football. And to do this, comparison is not right, of course, but the Senegalese example should inspire more than one. Also, football players gathered around the executive committee of Fémafoot like a swarm of bees under the leadership of its elected president Mamoutou Touré “Bavieux” would be proactive by humbly taking example of the painstaking work that the Senegalese Federation is doing. to carry out under the leadership of Me Senghor (He has been president since 2008).
At all levels of the African football pyramid rings and resounds the name of the country of Teranga. Can we say that it is the positive result of cohesion, of the perception of the higher interest for the benefit of sport built on a management without deleterious crisis. Malian football has counted in the annals of Caf and Fifa. To the current actors all behind the Malian Football Federation to mark history, to be in tune with the times and to write again beautiful pages of king sport in Africa and elsewhere.
Balla Tounkara
