By A Correspondent- A bank account belonging to the country’s football managing board, Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has been frozen.

The account is said to be holding USD100 000 received from FIFA  through the FIFA Forward programme last week.

The account was frozen after the debt-ridden ZIFA defied a High Court order to deposit USD518 331,18 owed to its Director of Administration Lazarus Mhurushomana by Monday.

Mhurushomana was retrenched in 2004 and the money in question is in respect of salary arrears.

A ZIFA official confirmed that the country’s mother body had received USD100k from FIFA for football development but a former employee one Mr Lazarus Mhurushomana approached the court claiming salary arrears of USD518 331.81.

Said the official:

“The Sheriff then issued a writ of attachment and an order to transfer the said amount resulting in this development (of freezing the account).

We have filed an urgent chamber application which was set down for today but was postponed to tomorrow.”