Amazulu Football Club Launches Its Own Business College
Amazulu Football Club Launches Its Own Business College. South African football club, Amazulu Football Club took to Twitter to announce the launch of its Business College. It stated that the college would be offering a chance to receive a certified graduate training in entrepreneurship and business management.
The post read, “This past weekend saw the launch of our AmaZulu Business College, activated in partnership with @Mazi_AM. The inaugural session attended by Usuthu players, technical team and staff aimed to inspire our current crop of players and impart to them the necessary skills to become future-focused business leaders. Bafana Bafana legend, Lucas Radebe and former Usuthu defender, Mbulelo Mabizela were also on hand to offer advice alongside Coach Benni McCarthy.”
AmaZulu Football Club is a South African professional football club based in the city of Durban in the KwaZulu Natal province that plays in the Premier Soccer League the first-tier of South African football league system. On 2 October 2020 it was announced that businessman, Sandile Zungu, had purchased the club from the Dr Patrick Sokhela and was the 100% owner of the football club. From the outset, the new ownership laid out a 12-year plan that would see the club climb in stock and standing within South African football. As part of achieving this plan, Zungu brought in Benni McCarthy as Head Coach, with Siyabonga Nomvethe and McCarthy’s former assistant from Cape Town City, Vasili Manousakis joining the club as assistant coaches.
This is a great initiative by the club as it will promote education amongst its players as well as the whole company. They will inspire people in the sports industry to actually take education seriously as it can change how a person views the world. Introducing players to entrepreneurship and management courses sets them up for a great future when they retire as they would have the knowledge of how to run their own businesses thereby eliminating the stereotypes of players always dying without being financially stable.
This will teach players about the importance of saving money and investing in business that will secure returns in the future. Amazulu launching a business college shows that the want their players to be business minded, so that they can be able to secure their financial future.
