Zimbabwe Football Must Break Its Poverty Trap

Zimbabwean football is caught in a difficult cycle: we are trying to build tomorrow while using almost everything we have to survive today. Imagine a family whose child attends Chegama School in Rumumha, Gokwe.

Income is limited and unpredictable. Whenever money comes into the household, there is already a long list of urgent needs waiting for it — food, school fees, medicine, seed, fertiliser, perhaps repairs to the roof before the rains come. Every one of those needs is real.

None can simply be…