Hardrock going big again: High-Performance School of Excellency set for Kwekwe

PSL title hopefuls Hardrock FC are putting together world class football facilities, with the Kwekwe team now set to build a high-performance centre on their newly-acquired 10-hectare piece of land in the Midlands town.

This comes after the table-topping team built Chahwanda Stadium between 2025 and 2026. The same engineers who worked on Chahwanda Stadium are expected to move onto the new site in the next few months.

The centre will house the School of Excellence, and it will also have a 100-room hotel. Hardrock will be helped by experts from Portuguese giants Benfica, who will bring their expertise to make sure the centre meets international standards.

A NEW HOTEL ON THE CARDS IN KWEKWE SAYS CHARLES CHAHWANDA

Club board member Charles Chahwanda confirmed the project is part of Hardrock’s long-term plan to develop football from the grassroots and to give Kwekwe facilities that can host teams at the highest level.

“The great news is that we’ve acquired a piece of land which we are going to make good use of by building the school of excellence where we are now saying we want to take football from the young ones up to the senior levels. This school of excellence is mainly targeted at ensuring that we intensify grassroots level development in our country.”

Chahwanda also said the hotel will benefit teams from outside the country. “We also want to make sure that we build a hotel that would also benefit teams, even teams that come outside of the country, national teams, clubs, we also hope that they will also be benefiting from these facilities.

“This facility is mainly targeted at ensuring that we build something that is tangible, to yabuild a legacy in this land, to good use for the growth of football.”

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