See football in Football all you have to do is to know what you want, when you want it, and at what cost. Mtibwa is an experienced side, they have a head start, Kagera Sugar is going the right way, producing good young players, Moro United have talked about their plans recently and they seem very solid. Azam F.C. have started with a bang, and seem to be looking for very quick success, they have signed a lot of professional players and have a huge playing personnel, they are serious clearly, I am more conservative and like to analyse the situation.

I believe there is a lot of potential in Tanzania, and I also believe these players given the right nurture will become great players, look at the current trend, none of the “big” teams have a proper second squad, none of them have professionals personnel besides the coaches, I can bet the big guns sign players without proper medical, they don't have a base to work from, no proper training facilities, operational club facilities, doctors, masseurs, youth teams, they still cant figure out their short term goals, on paper. Clearly this is not the way forward, I appreciate the current leaders as good football fans, but do they make great administrators? Do they know this football business? I even doubt the leaders of the so called big guns even communicate with other professional teams. A club like Simba and Yanga don't have proper offices, websites, sports directors, marketing managers or anything, they just have a foreign coach, and train at the National Stadium, I don't even think they have any programs to nurture their current players in terms of diet, mental toughness, individual help, training aids and a million other things I can mention.

Keeping this in mind, If I can engage a few of these programs I mentioned just for my current squad, I can be sure to yield results. My policy is simple, established stars will be focused on African Lyon careers even if we buy in the future, but the youth and younger players will be focused on moving forward to greener pastures abroad. We have to invest in these players, in terms of physical education, mental toughness, proper diet, and healthcare but also providing them with contracts that are satisfactory.

My aim is to establish a target market, and get professionals from the target market region, to groom players in the way they would be groomed there, I have visited many clubs, abroad, i don't think they do anything extra ordinary, besides providing the players with what I mentioned earlier, and European grooming can also take place here, why not?

We are in Tanzania, most of the concepts I am trying to introduce are new, and look artificial, but is there any short cut? I don't think so. My administration is on track, we have to give them time to adapt, this is a new team, new concept and new ways of operating so there are teething problems, but i can assure you we are on track, my team has responded well, and I am sure in the coming days we will have a professional administrator and/or a football director, but since we took over the team, we have tried to make the transition as smooth as we can, we have retained most of the admin staff, but now we are seeing changes, we can actually see systems taking shape, budgets, targets etc etc.

Technically we are totally unchanged and the chief coach Jummanne Chale has been given freedom to operate, and we have tried to meet his requirements, he did make changes in the bench that suited him, he had all the say in the transfer window registrations and exits. We try and keep him engaged, we believe he is capable of the job in hand. He has been given a decent contract, he is looking forward to spending a long time here, he is also aware that we have plans of bringing in a UEFA Licensed coach, and he is willing to work that is positive news for us.

Marketing budgets were very small currently, but we are moving forward, with the websites, sponsors etc, we now have to review the marketing budget in and focus in creating a fan base. This process will take time and it's a long term thing.

We have to remember that it has been only four months since we took over the team, and in the four months so far, we are ahead of our targets, we have major plans, post march 2009, but then the results on the pitch are of extreme importance, so far I am satisfied.

There are many ways for this, we can sell our shares, we can ask investors to invest in from the many projects, in individual or collective projects and take a piece of profits.

We have been looking actively for serious institutions such as foreign clubs to invest in African Lyon and affiliate with African Lyon FC, we can see such projects achieve success in Southern Africa, Northern Africa and West Africa, while we in East have not made much efforts or created a conducive environment for such affiliations. When we see our big clubs always involved in crises and being reported in media extensively, I don't think foreign clubs will want to come.

To play the World Club Championships! In a nutshell.

Its a long way but i feel with the right attitude, a bit of luck and sound investments we can go on and challenge the CAF Champions league in less then 5 years, and after a couple years experience gained after that we can win it.

Does Enyimba sound familiar? It is achievable. I have been to Abbya state in Nigeria and saw Enyimba in it's infancy, and i see it now, and on a sincere note they were not so far ahead 4-5 years ago, we can always catch up. The Egyptians sides were very far ahead when Enyimba was starting, but now they are catching up, we just have to do the same.

I think the Federation and Marcio Maximo together have ignited back the love of football in Tanzania, aided by the governments commitment to football in particular, evidently we see the New National Stadium. Marcio is reaching an end of his contract, and we now have to take a step higher and look for a coach that can now continue his good work, but who also can work at grass roots, and improve techniques. Mind you the clubs play important roles, and with current the influx of foreign coaches, and players in the Tanzania league, we are poised to learn a lot.

In three years we won't take huge strides, but we will consolidate our position and we will be much stronger then we are. I don't think we will jump 50 places in the rankings, but i am sure we will be hovering in the top 70 sides.