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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Lesotho Football Association (LEFA) has given Likuena players and technical team from the COSAFA Cup a cool M250 000 to share among themselves. The jackpot is the prize money that Likuena received as runners up to Zambia in last month\u2019s final in Durban, South Africa.<\/p>\n

LEFA president Advocate Salemane Phafane announced that the association will not get a cent from the prize money and it will all go directly to the team.<\/p>\n

Phafane said reaching the COSAFA Cup final was one of the targets the association had set for themselves in their 2023-26 strategic plan. \u201cIn the first year of the strategic plan we got there.<\/p>\n

How did we get there? Planning. We are investing a lot in development,\u201d Phafane said. \u201cYou now know how many Under-15 kids are playing, both boys and girls. These are players that we are saying should get here (to the national team),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Addressing Likuena players in attendance, Phafane said they had earned the financial windfall which will go a long way for many of the players who still receive limited incomes from local club football.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe money COSAFA gives us as prize money (is) to try to compensate for the expenses (incurred) for reaching the stage we did, the executive committee has decided to give you all that money,\u201d LEFA president said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be taking no cent from it, it will go directly to you. Let\u2019s keep fighting, no one said go and play and you will get M250 000, you went out and fought,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The association also thanked the former Minister of Finance, Timothy Thahane, for his support of the national team before they left for Durban. Phafane handed Thahane a framed national team photo, a pennant as well as a Likuena replica shirt as a gesture of appreciation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the team was preparing for the tournament in Durban everybody knew, there was no one that didn\u2019t know that LEFA had registered the team for the COSAFA Cup,\u201d Phafane said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there is anyone who helped the team to be where it is today besides ntate Thahane I would be forgetting. There is no one who helped LEFA.<\/p>\n

There is not one business person, not one minister, there has not been any part of the government that helped,\u201d he added. \u201cWe were on our own as LEFA to take the team and be where they are today, except ntate Thahane.<\/p>\n

We didn\u2019t even ask (for help), he volunteered to help. The ministry knew, everyone knew, they knew the budget and they chose not to give even a cent for the players to go to Durban,\u201d Phafane said.<\/p>\n

Phafane praised the whole team and said they had made the country proud. He said Likuena had made southern Africa proud. \u201cYou have demonstrated that there is no small country, there was a time when it was believed that to get to the COSAFA final was reserved territory for certain countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have broken that record, it\u2019s not something countries equal to us (in size) take for granted, you have given them hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Lesotho. The Lesotho Football Association (LEFA) has given Likuena players and technical team from the COSAFA Cup a cool M250 000 to share among themselves. The jackpot is the prize money that Likuena received as runners up to Zambia in last month\u2019s final in Durban, South Africa. 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