“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” so goes a quote by King Henry from Shakespeare’s play King Henry IV.
Since his ascension to the Botswana Football Association (BFA) presidency, Tariq Babitseng has probably had one of his busiest weeks. He has had countless meetings with sponsors and stakeholders.
That however may be the least of his worries. The youthful BFA president now has to walk one of football’s most unstable tightropes, balancing between his personal and his associates’ interests on one side and interests of football and the general football family on the other.
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