Fifa hits Hwange with $10 000 fine

FIFA has come down hard on Hwange Football Club for using Creven Banda without following proper international transfer procedures and fined them 10 000 Swiss francs ($10 655)and earning a reprimand as well, in  the process becoming the first Zimbabwean club to be punished by the world football governing body.

In a four-page judgment dated September 1 2014, the international football mother body found the club guilty of failing to correctly reflect the transfer of Banda to Motlakatse Power Dynamos Football Club, a Botswana Premier Soccer League club, through the Fifa Transfer Matching System in 2011.

The colliery team was also found guilty of failing to secure a reverse international clearance from the Botswana Football Association after the player failed to make the grade for the Palapye-based team.

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