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Yanga players
Mainland champions Yanga are in the final stages to sign a new sponsorship deal with one of the local mobile phone company, meaning they will part ways with Premier League sponsors, Vodacom Tanzania.
Yanga do not agree with the colour selection in the costumes offered to them by Vodacom. The costume design has shades of Yanga's forbidden red colours on its logo and the reason is clear; red is Simba.
The club officials argues that it was a breach of Yanga's constitution for any red colour to appear in the club, insisting that the Jangwani Street side was ready to surrender Vodacom sponsorship than bowing down to cumbersome requirements by the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) and sponsors.
However, this could spark further controversy between the club and the TFF as well as the league sponsors Vodacom Tanzania.
TFF Information Officer Boniface Wambura insisted on Friday that the contract between the federation and league main sponsors, Vodacom stated clearly that no any other mobile phone company(s) will be allowed to sponsor the top flight teams.
He said the sponsorship contract gives Vodacom Tanzania exclusive marketing rights to the league and branding, saying bringing in any another competitor would mean to infringe the contract.
"Vodacom is a title sponsor of the league and it will be against the contract to allow other mobile phone competitor to sponsor Yanga. It will simply not be permitted," he said.
On Tuesday Wambura announced that Yanga is free to pick or leave costume offered by Vodacom and no alternation of any logo will be made to suit their demand.
He said Vodacom is a multinational company and its Dar es Salaam branch was not entitled to make any changes of the company's colours or any rebranding for that matter, without an approval from the mother company in London, United Kingdom.
Wambura said Yanga is free to get another sponsor as long as it is not a mobile phone company, saying the federation has already wrote them an official letter to clarify on the Vodacom stance in regard to changing the company's logo.
Speaking earlier on on Friday, Yanga Information Officer Louis Sendeu said they have not received any letter from TFF in regard to Vodacom sponsorship. He also distanced his club with the Vodacom sponsorship.
"Yanga is free to get sponsorship from any where because the club has nothing to do with the Vodacom contract. It was an agreement between the TFF and Vodacom not Yanga," he said.
By DENNIS FUSSI, Tanzania Daily News