As the new Botswana Football Association (BFA) National Executive committee assume office this week, Debswana Managing Manager Balisi Bonyongo’s words of encouragement must be pounding in their ears. Bonyongo had given the footballing fraternity a lengthy talk on the direction the association should take if at all it has ambitions of success. Bonyongo says for the association to be successful the purpose of its existence must be clearly defined. Though he acknowledges that BFA has had its successes over the years he feels a lot still needs to be done to further develop football. He then called the football leadership to look for a long-term strategy that will see things done differently from the way they used to be done. “Although the BFA has managed to spread the gospel of the beautiful game to all corners of Botswana, we must concede that football at a regional level is still very much underdeveloped and under resourced,” says Bonyongo, citing what he termed sub-standard playing grounds and facilities that exist across the country. The other thing that he talked about is the inability of BFA to raise enough funding to implement all its development programmes. Bonyongo, whose company is the sponsor of…