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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Last week the Lesotho Football Association (LEFA) presented its four-year vision named the \u2018New Dawn\u2019 for the first time in a newly-formed newsletter.<\/p>\n

LEFA\u2019s new manifesto comes as football across the globe tries to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic which has radically changed the game from its administration, how it is watched to its economics.<\/p>\n

LEFA\u2019s secretary general, Mokhosi Mohapi, unpacked what LEFA\u2019s new vision entails and the goals the association expects to achieve by its target year of 2024.<\/p>\n

In a newly-launched LEFA newsletter, Mohapi said the New Dawn is about managing football from a \u201cvery exciting perspective\u201d and hopefully \u201cre-rerouting past failures into more success-oriented perspective.<\/p>\n

\u201d There are five main pillars in the New Dawn \u2013 Governance and Administration, Technical Development, Competitions, National Teams and Infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Mohapi says this new vision addresses LEFA\u2019s existence within the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic and other socio-political perspectives.<\/p>\n

It sets a roadmap which the association will use to navigate Lesotho football during and beyond the pandemic and it also touches on how LEFA plans to achieve its mandate of developing, regulating and promoting football.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Lesotho Football Association hopes to do a 360-degree based approach to turn around the fortunes of LEFA from an internal and external perspective,\u201d Mohapi told LEFA\u2019s newsletter.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will be aware the organization lacks success at the moment, and this has to change and change now.<\/p>\n

\u201d Mohapi said this new vision was a collective decision.<\/p>\n

Under the competitions section, the association plans to repackage the country\u2019s top two football leagues \u2013 the Premier League and First Division \u2013 and transition from their current amateur status to semi-professionalisation within two seasons.<\/p>\n

LEFA also seeks to enforce stricter club licensing while providing training for club bosses in the field of modern club management. The association will retrain referees to service the semi-professionalisation process while also providing stimulation resources to support the process.<\/p>\n

In addition, current sponsorship deals will be renegotiated in order to make elite football leagues more competitive and yield a better return on investment on the part of the teams. The association plans to restructure and modernise the technical staffs of Lesotho\u2019s national teams in order to meet today\u2019s challenges.<\/p>\n

It will inculcate modern sport science principles and practices in order to create more competitive national teams and it also aims to have national teams reaching major competitions semi-finals during the coming four years.<\/p>\n

LEFA says the future is about the new normal and it requires a \u201cphenomenal change to the way football is to be managed. \u201d It calls for experienced and dynamic visionaries to lead organisations.<\/p>\n

It says this new dispensation is about catching up with the rest of the world using resources available to the association, human, financial and technological.<\/p>\n

The technical development looks at youth and grassroots, licensing for private academies and establishing a national academy programme. More youth and women\u2019s coaches will be trained.<\/p>\n

LEFA aims to train former footballers and referees in business skills in order to empower them to be able to survive in life after active football. It will also seek to honour and reward those who played a role in the football fraternity with dedication, devotion and passion in the past and currently.<\/p>\n

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