After several divergent points regarding Girabola’s stops and lack of competitive riding, directors and fans want a more competitive race in the second round
Girabola 2023/2024, a competition that tore up the country’s pitches for the first time in 1979 of the last century, crowning 1º de Agosto national champion, had an atypical first round due to several situations.
The delayed start of the competition due to the football corruption scandal, involving coaches, managers and teams, ended up changing the schedule of the registered clubs.
During the draw for the competition, in August last year, a week before the start, the Jurisdictional Council of the Angolan Football Federation (FAF) postponed the event again because of the sanctions that had been applied to those involved in the corruption process.
In October 2023, the competition went from paper to the fields, catching the clubs technically and administratively against each other, because the schedule had undergone many changes and financial costs that were higher than expected.
Even so, the teams started the race without the rhythm that was intended, because the closed season was the longest since the celebration of the king sport in the country made itself known to its lovers.
At the CAN that Côte d’Ivoire hosted last January, the presence of the National Team on the competition stage forced the FAF Technical Council to take another stop.
Based on these facts, directors and fans of several clubs gave their yes and no to the management of the body that governs the sport in the country, but the postponement prevailed to the detriment of playing with the pieces that were in the clubs.
After the CAN in the lands of Drogba, Salomon Kalou, Gervinho, Max Gradel and others, the successful postponements of Girabola games due to the Angolan ambassadors in the Afrotas will also have taken away the quality that the competition offers.
At the start of the second round of Girabola 2023/2024, scheduled for the 27th of this month, the FAF wants fewer games postponed, as its agenda includes the CAN 2025 qualifiers in Morocco.
There is talk that there will only be a postponement when the reason or motive is delicate, but the question that some leaders ask is the following: did the FAF schedule the second round of Girabola thinking about the race for CAN or just about competitiveness?
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