July 31, 2008
Former Zambia national team Under-23 striker Given Singuluma has been shown the door with five other players at newly promoted South African Premier Soccer League side Bay United.
Singuluma a key member in the Peter Kaumba under-23 side that failed to qualify for next month’s Beijing 2008 Olympics joined the then Mvela Golden league in 2006.
Bay United is busy reinforcing it’s squad after gaining promotion via the play offs. Former international striker Linos Chalwe is also on their books and his 8 goals last season propelled them to the playoffs.
Chalwe who had an awful display in the playoffs final aganst FC AK has been retained.
Singuluma was part of the initial list released by FAZ for the ongoing Cosafa Senior Challenge but Chipolopolo Boys trainer Herve Renard decided to exclude him from the final list as he wanted to give chance to other players he has not seen in action.
The former National Assembly striker’s last game for Zambia was against Libya in June this year but was stretched off at halftime.
Bay United are believed to have signed international defender Billy Mwanza who was recently released by another PSL side Golden Arrows.
So far, it’s only Bay United in the PSL (maybe Collins Mbesuma if he will sign for Sundowns) which has a Zambian striker on their books and with three Zambian hitmen winning the coveted Lesley Mathanyela PSL top scorer award in the last four seasons, most PSL fans are waiting if the clubs will make a last minute signing from the copper mining country for the next Collins Mbesuma, Christopher Katongo or James Chamanga.
41 Comments on "Given Singuluma released by Bay United"
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Big Steve from SA on Thu, 31st Jul 2008 2:39 PM
Linos Chalwe is a stricker and he is on the books of this very club. I dont understand your reporting here. Maybe he is not Zambian??
AS on Thu, 31st Jul 2008 3:48 PM
I remember that Linos was called under PP but must have been nursing some injury at that time and we must remember the partnership he had with Collins at Kaiser Chiefs. He could still be good but no one is there in FAZ to monitor these boys’ performance, nor is there a monitoring mechanism in place.
We have a lot of players in the diaspora and if FAZ were able to monitor their performance, Iam sure we can pull a strong side. A few names that have all of a sudden disappeared from the scene are Misheck Lungu, Nchimunya Mwetwa, BY’s son Mwila Jnr, Noah Chivuta himself, Mulenga Clifford etc. I think, a quick reference to a register for all our out-going players would be useful when assembling a team. I have a strong feeling, we do not have a register at FAZ, and all forget after chewing the transfer fees.
ben,finland on Thu, 31st Jul 2008 7:22 PM
what do you expect of faz when pipo like kalu is their leader
CHISUMA on Thu, 31st Jul 2008 10:06 PM
Typical Zambians so cynical and lacking ideas always pointing he finger. Don’t mask your hatred for Kalu by susting a register. Kalu has been in football a long time my friend. He is more knowledgeable than you will ever be. Just let him get on with the work he knows best to do.