These days football is more than just a sport its a business, all countries in the world play football making it the most compititive sport worldwide. While Netball is still just a game with very small audience smaller than a lawn tennis, in africa its about a dozen of countries playing in asia non, eruope less than five plus jamica, austrilia, newzeeland.despite not winning cosafa, CAF or Worldcup footaball has brought more returns than netball where we have been in top five.

Look at UK Sports – it funds on the basis of results leading to them coming second in the medals table at the recent Olympics. Malawi please invest in netball where you can be world beaters. No ridiculous stadiums like the unused multi million dollar stadium in Lilongwe that will continue costing Malawian taxpayers millions for years to come.

This Lack of vision and insight. Look at the issue of sports development holistically. There was Isaac Chilemba who did well at one point , did we talk of about special investment, the athlete Moyo did we talk about anything. Very poor thinking. Where in the world have you heard of a parent only investing in only one child leaving out the rest. Its not only putting Malawi on the Map we should also think of all sorts of aspects

Let us be realistic and not be fooled by Juliana the attention seeker. Why can’t she first sponsor netball in her constituency if she is serious. Secondly how many countries in the world take netball serious? Even women soccer is more popular in the world today than netball. Goodall Gondwe made it clear in parliament that sports is not a priority so why can’t Juliana and her friends in parliament start by challenging the old finance minister so that enough money is given to sports. I even doubt if netball will ever be an Olympic sport. It’s a minority sports.… Read more »