The senior men's basketball team was ordered to leave a hotel in Zimbabwe last Sunday for non-payment of board and lodging expenses.

In that country, the players are competing in the Zone VI qualifying round for Afrocan 2023. The national team had 13,000 dollars (90 dollars a day for each member of the delegation) to cover all expenses until the end of the games. The 13,000 dollars was also supposed to cover refereeing issues, according to the newspaper The Country.

Towards the end of the qualifying round, the Mozambican delegation was asked to pay the fees. Strangely, they didn't pay them and couldn't even explain why they no longer had the money from the event's organizing committee, as directed by FIBA-Africa. With no answers, the organizing committee ordered the team to withdraw.

The Mozambican shame had been disguised by the intervention of the Zimbabwean government and local basketball figures, who ensured that the Mozambican delegation stayed at the hotel, including food.

According to The CountryHe also questioned the stance of the Mozambican Basketball Federation in Zimbabwe.