The secretary general of the
Recent reports also indicated that
The executive director in the ministry,
"We never said that there was no money, but the NFA will have to follow the proper channels - they have to put in a request to receive funding. If there is no money available we will tell them, but till now we haven't received a request from them," he said.
"We don't fund federations, they get funding via the
Regarding the
"We have already confirmed that we will support our athletes with accommodation, travel and clothing, but we are still waiting to hear who will be in the final team," he said.
Cosmos, meanwhile, said they have always submitted an annual budget that includes details of individual tournaments.
"We submit an annual budget to the
"We did that again, but we didn't receive any funding this year, also for our participation at the Chan tournament in
Cosmos, however, said they still hope to compete at the Cosafa Cup tournament.
"We are in discussions with our sponsor Tafel Lager and hopefully with their support we will be able to participate at the Cosafa Cup."
Olympic Committee still waiting
The secretary general of the
"Two weeks ago we had a meeting with the minister and the deputy minister of sport, as well as Mathe where he promised that we would receive funding. He said they they would try to get an extra N$3 million from other pockets in the ministry for the
"In the past the government said they would pay, but in the end we didn't get anything, so I'm not so sure. There are only three weeks to go before the team leaves and we still haven't received any feedback on whether the
Smit, however, said they would definitely go to the
"We have to go, we can't expect the athletes to work so hard and then say sorry, but you can't go. We will have to make use of our Olympic Solidarity grant and our continental grant to assist the athletes, but I'm just concerned about the Paralympic team, because they don't receive Olympic Solidarity funding," she said.
The chief administrator of the
"We give funding according to established programmes in place - for international multi-sport events like the
The government's financial contribution to football, and sport in general, has plummeted in recent years.
In 2017 the NFA's international participation grant from government of N$10 million was cut to N$3,3 million, while no funds have been made available for the past two years.
Mwiya said that sport's budget had been severely cut this year.
"We submitted our annual budget of N$89 million, but the Ministry of Finance did not approve our request and we only received N$8,6 million. N$80 million was supposed to go to the sport codes and the rest for operational purposes of the
"Sport codes need to apply again for individual tournaments, but it's not guaranteed that they will receive anything - we will first have to see if we have any savings that we can use, so it's not easy," he said.
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