Castle PSL vs ABSA Premiership:
By Mxolisi Mbekezeli :The Zimbabwean Newspaper.
A few weeks ago, Zimbabweans went to town celebrating that the local
Castle Premiership had been adjudged to be better than South Africa’s
ABSA Premiership
Their source was an International Federation of
Football History and Statistics, a German-based organisation that
considers the history and records of national football associations. The
IFFHS bases its rankings on all national championships, cup
competitions and inter-continental club competitions to produce its
not-so-flawless list of the Club World rankings.
While the idealists
celebrated that the IFFHS put the Castle PSL 14 places above the South
African league, realists did not ignore the facts that punched many
holes in the organisation’s theories. Obviously, a system that puts
America’s strong Major Soccer League behind the national leagues from
Angola, Botswana, Armenia, and India, should not be trusted.
Those
who still based their celebrations on the IFFHS statistics also ignored
the fact that the same organisation put the ABSA Premiership (51st) 21
places above the Zimbabwean league on its list of the strongest Leagues
of the 21st Century.
To be fair, Zimbabwean clubs have of late done
better in continental competitions than their South African
counterparts, but that is more attributable to the fact that the
business-minded South African clubs have seen it better to cut their
losses than chase tournaments with less reward than their domestic
competitions.
The winners’ prize for the CAF Champions League
translates to less than R9.5 million and put against the high costs of
travel and hosting away clubs, the net amount can be less than half that
figure – R4.75million.
That could be a fortune for Zimbabwean
clubs, but remains peanuts to super-rich South African clubs with mega
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| Mourinho | 704 | 474 | 139 | 91 | 67% |
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