The LMF's gigantic debts to the clubs in Moçambola and the LAM

As dívidas gigantescas da LMF com os clubes do Moçambola e a LAM

The President of the Mozambican Football League (LMF) said Tuesday that his board owes 10,800,000 meticais to the clubs of the country's biggest soccer competition "Moçambola.

The debt has to do with the television broadcasting rights of their games, according to Ananias Couana, who was speaking during the XXVI Ordinary Session of the LMF General Assembly.

The LMF has collected 18 million meticals from the television broadcasts of the games of Moçambola 2021, according to the activities and accounts report of last year. During the meeting, the LMF's top leader said that this debt will be settled soon.

The broadcasts continue to be guaranteed by the television operator, Zap, which has a tie-up with LMF until December of this year, so it has one more season of commitment.

ZAP only broadcasts the Moçambola games in the South Zone, and in the rest of the country TVM broadcasts.

"What can't happen is that there is a parallel broadcast of the same game that Zap is broadcasting," he explained.

Some clubs have asked to have broadcast rights to their home games on their digital platforms, a situation that the LMF says will be brought up for review.

Liabilities of 77 million plus 42 million unrecorded

LMF currently has a liability estimated at 77 million meticals, much of it to Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique (LAM), the company that guarantees the clubs' air transportation during Moçambola, writes "Notícias".

The 2,249 airline tickets issued by LAM in 2021 are valued at 18 million meticais.

Other debts are related to the purchase of fuel and the accommodation of the delegations, mainly from the years 2016 and 2017.

There is also an amount of 42 million not recorded in the LMF accounts, but entered in the LAM accounts as fuel taxes.

LMF says the auditor did not record the fuel tax debt because the governing body of Moçambola has been making representations to the ministries of Finance and Transport and Communication not to take that responsibility.

"We assume that LMF is technically bankrupt given the unsustainable debt we have. Right now we are a purely social, non-profit organization. We are not managing to be profitable," he lamented.

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