Wellington Mpandare

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Wellington Mpandare
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BornWellington Mpandare
ResidenceZimbabwe
NationalityZimbabwean
Occupation
  • Football Manager
EmployerZIFA
Known forBeing Warriors Manager

Wellington Mpandare is a Zimbabwean football administrator and was appointed the General Manager for all national teams on 13 October 2020 on a three-year contract.[1] Together with Eddie Chivero, he is the founding member of Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association.

Career

He served as operations manager for the now defunct Gunners Football Club.[2] Mpandare was the team manager for the Zimbabwe National Football Team when they qualified for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations and was in the same position when the locally based Warriors secured a place at the 2021 African Nations Championship.

A football enthusiast, Mpandare’s history with the sport dates back to 1998 when former Division Two side Gateway was formed. He became Gunners manager at their formation until they won the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League title in 2009 before rising to become the club’s operations director. Outside football, he co-owns a company that deals in industrial and mechanical spares as well as a Durban-based construction firm.[3]

2023 ZIFA CEO

It is reported that FIFA have rejected the appointment of Nyasha Kadenge. She had emerged a surprise choice for the vacant ZIFA CEO post. FIFA insisted thorough background checks be made, and from “FIFA insisted on a thorough background check being made and from those checks, in terms of FIFA ethics, Kadenge was not satisfactory.

ZIFA been without a substantive CEO for nearly two years after then-general secretary Joseph Mamutse went AWOL, refusing to continue his duties in the absence of then-president Felton Kamambo. Chief operations officer Xolisani Gwesela acted as CEO until last month, when the Normalisation Committee dissolved his post along with those of technical director Wilson Mutekede and national teams general manager Wellington Mpandare. The Normalisation Committee are now coming up with an alternative name. The development also came as a FIFA delegation flew into the country on 8 October 2023 to conduct a club licensing workshop for Premiership sides in Harare on 10 October 2023. [4]

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References

  1. Yvonne Mangunda, [1], Zimbabwe Football Association, Published: 13 October, 2020, Accessed: 13 October, 2020
  2. Mpandare, Chivare fight to save their faces, Herald, published: April 23, 2013, retrieved: June 9, 2017
  3. Munyaradzi Madzokere, [2], The Standard, Published: 11 November, 2018, Accessed: 13 October, 2020
  4. NEW: FIFA reject Kadenge CEO appointment, Sunday Mail, Published: 9 October 2023, Retrieved: 9 October 2023

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