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Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Botswana Football League (BFL) board chairperson, Nicholas Zakhem, has pleaded with ABSA Bank to consider being the league sponsor.<\/b><\/p>\n

He was speaking at an event in Gaborone on Wednesday where the bank announced a P1.7 million league sponsorship.<\/p>\n

\u201cImagine the league being called ABSA Premier League, we want to wear ABSA all over, we want you to come on board,\u2019 Zakhem said.<\/p>\n

He said, by being the title sponsor, ABSA would be ploughing back to the community.<\/p>\n

He said BFL was still finding its ground given that it took its autonomy from Botswana Football Association in 2020.<\/p>\n

For her part, ABSA Bank managing director, Keabetswe Pheko-Moshagane, said the sponsorship package would be used to support the league in various ways such as running of the games and completion of the remaining fixtures.<\/p>\n

She said the bank was proud to support the league, adding that in the past two seasons, they had invested approximately P7 million to help grow football.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe this is a testament of our commitment to continue to make a meaningful impact in the communities and societies that we operate in,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Pheko-Moshagane said ABSA understood the importance of football, which she described as a unifying force.<\/p>\n

Football, she said, was also important part of Botswana culture and a key contributor to the economic and social development of the country.<\/p>\n

The ABSA boss further said football was also a source of national pride and joy, hence the bank finding it prudent to support BFL. \u201cWe still have a long way to go and organisations like ABSA can play a key role in building the sport fraternity in Botswana,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Botswana. Botswana Football League (BFL) board chairperson, Nicholas Zakhem, has pleaded with ABSA Bank to consider being the league sponsor. 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