Written By Steve Vickers | At BBC Sport

The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has auctioned the assets from its Fifa-financed national training centre in order to pay debts.

An artificial pitch, equipment, beds and furniture at the facility on the outskirts of Harare have been sold.

Zifa owes over US$4m, including $88,000 to an ex-employee who had taken legal action over an initial $12,000 debt.

“We are in a financial quagmire, we are in trouble,” Zifa spokesman Xolisani Gwesela told BBC Sport.

“It’s a microcosm of what’s happening in the economy as a whole. The economic environment in the country is very tough, and we won’t make it without government and corporate support.

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