French Ligue 1 side invite Sakuwaha for trials
Zambianfootball.net can reveal and understand that International and Zesco United winger Jonas Sakuwaha has been invited for trials by French Ligue 1 side Lorient.
Sakuwaha who was voted in the CHAN 2009 ‘Team of the tournament’ as the best right winger is scheduled to fly out to France this weekend and expected to spend a week there.
The gangling winger whose main strength is pacy and power has been one of the most consistency players in the Zambian Premier League.
Lorient finished 10th on the log last season.
And Sakuwaha’s Zesco teammate William ‘The Magician’ Njobvu is also set to leave for trials on Monday together with Sebastian Mwansa to Israel.
Power Dynamos captain Francis ‘Mr Reliable’ Kasonde is on the verge of joining Sudanese giants Al Merriekh while South African PSL side Bloemfotein Celtic are also believed to be after his signature.
Chan 2009 Golden Boot winner Given ‘Freedom’ Singuluma will be linking up with his new teammates tomorrow in Sudan. TP Mazembe is taking part in the CECAFA Club tournament in Khartoum.
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5 minutes to goal and the Egyptians have the game under control-they are playing with a swagger and the Rwadeses are out of sorts
Mayhem! ref!
The ref has signalled for four minutes added time. In typical Arab style, all the ball boys have now disappeared
Brothers and Sisters Our group can now be called the group of death!
The Egyptians had the Amavubi defence in sixes and sevens but they wasted a chance to get a third in thefinal phases of the game
Rwanda is yet to score a goal in this group, are they waiting for their home games, even though they didn’t against Algeria either.
And another chance-hits the side netting!!
3-0
3-0 Sublime counter attack football by the African Champs
3 – 0
Egypt has some momentum now
Campos where are you? Do you still think Rwanda has a chance to make it to Angola 2010?
Aboutes his second of the night and this surely completely kills the Amavubis and most certainly puts them out of contetion
Well, crunch time come September, this getting very interesting.
Aboutrika
Eh eh. What’s the story?
Algeria 6 – Rwanda 0
Rwanda is a very weak team … my local team plays much better …
@Anonymous
I don’t know sometimes, Teams that have nothing to loose can be quite the spoilers.
Needless to say that this result doesn’t change anything in terms of what we need to do i.e. win all the three remaining games. I believe we will pick up six points from our away games but I am not convinced we will get the result against Egypt. Not that Egypt are a good side but purely because we are crap at home-the pitch and the negative soccer cadres in the stadium just don’t help at all. I will be happy if we were asked to play our games away from home
No way No how. They are just too weak.
The only thing We need to do is to take Ba Muzo’a advice. We have to change. Egyptian supporters were rallying behind the team from the time the game started, even though they were sitting at the bottom of the table together with Rwanda. I understand tax payers pay our national teams expenses, but this does not mean We should be bitter towards our own team. We as fans need to scream, shout, sing the loudest when We are playing at home. We also have to stop blaming players for any loss, in my eyes We have the best team in this group (not being biased towards my home country either). Our defense is superb, we just need to fine tune our offense. Egypt missed a lot of clear chances in today’s game but they also managed to create many more. This allowed them to pick up their pieces and score some.
@Anonymous
You are probably be right, but I thought the same of the U.S in the Conf Cup after their first two losses, but they were in the final. But then again the U.S is a Team of a different calibre. Rwanda still has proved their prowess.
Anonymous I have noticed that every game is different in this group, this makes it difficult to predict results. All We have to do is wait and see. I think Amavubi played well regardless of the result, they must have lost hope once the reff handed Egypt a controversial penalty. They were also 1 man down in the dying minutes, and Egypt took advantage of that.
@Dis
I meant Rwanda has not proved themselves.
Still, this Rwanda team is very weak. I think part of it is due to the coach who has changed many players in a short time. They got no chance.
Anonymous the point is Algeria failed to beat them before, so what makes you think they will beat them by six goals this time around?
Gametime2 : you know very well that in Africa away-games are very difficult because of so many factors and dot necessarily reflect the value of each team. Secondly, I believe that Algeria is becoming stronger and more confident while this Rwanda team is lesser than the one that confronted Algeria and Zambia. Seriously, I think Algeria can win with more than 3 goals in case Egypt beats Zambia.
Anonymous my point is Algeria managed to beat Zambia at home by 2 goals, an unpredictable result. Who knows if Amavubi Will come swinging when they play against Algeria
Besides a team that loses some matches gets the chance to fix up their mistakes. Algeria is sitting on cloud nine they don’t know their weakest points yet. I wont be surprised if they will caught napping.
Gametime2: All Egypyian commentators themselves are saying that the Rwanda team was exceptionally weak. If Algeria can’t beat this tean with at least 3 differential, they do not deserve SA 2010.
Don’t count on it. Their current coach is much smarter than that.
Am guessing these are the commentators that were calling Abou trikas name like 50 times? if one added a beat to that commentary it would wind up being a song called Abou Trika. Anonymous I watch the game with my own eyes i don’t need a commentator to distort my views. May be Rwanda is weak at this point, who knows if they will be in the same state when they play Algeria. They will most likely go back to the drawing board and try to fix their problems. Meanwhile Algeria is still partying it up after beating Zambia by 2 goals.
I really wish all these teams could get qualified for the sake of their public. But this is life, I guess.
It would be wise for the coach to keep the winning team, but this is not about the coach its the players mentality that counts. They might just get big headed.
Gametime2 : I see that you are biased.
Let me also get biased and say :
Algeria 3 – Zambia 0. Bye
I did not say anything about Rwanda qualifying, I don’t even think they will make Angola 2010. My point is, teams like Rwanda are in this to fulfill the fixture. This means they wont qualify but they are capable of spoiling your day if you lose concentration.
Anonymous We will see
Looks like Kasonde’s deal fell through under unexplained circumstances. He is reported to be back in Egypt to see if he can find a club. Too bad for the young man. Keep your head up and continue working at it.
keep your head up Mr reliable you might get a better deal
I cant wait for that one day when Zambia hosts the Africa Cup of Nations…..That will help us economically
ligi yakosa! i was hopng 4 a draw. wel, looks like our boys got to play their lungs out as we give them 150% support.
Zesco v Lsk Dynamos ended in a barren draw. So Zanaco goes into the midseason break at the summit of the lague table. This is not a good sign from zesco especially now that they will be playting the CAF Cl.
I fell to understand what it is really they look at in Kasonde becuase I think he is a great player but surprising ids he never goes past the trials. Wish him good luck though.
But why Fwayo? Isn’t this absebnce going to cost him? I hope there is a better explanation behind all this.
The battle for 2010 was lost when we gave away that game to Algeria. Everything favour Algeria now. They will make sure they wallop Zambia and Rwanda in Algeria.
Meanwhile, Moroka Swallows of South Africa will not sign Mbesuma. He failed the trials. Judge for yourselves.
I hope the Fwayo situation is not just another act of immaturity on the players side. Zamfoot please keep us udated with whats going on with the young man.
The Mbesuma story makes for very sad reading. Its been way too long since we heard something positive about ntofontofo’s career. The big clubs are not woking out so maybe he should opt for the smaller clubs but definitely not the Mvela. maybe he should go and knock on Jomos door. Jomo seems to be on the road to building his team to a 40 man team again. He seems to be signing players every week. This could be a starting point even though it would mean a serious salary cut of below 50% his Sundowns salary but hey, beggers are not choosers. I dont think if Mbesuma applies himself it will be hard for im to bounce back especially in the PSL so he should take whatever offer whatever club in the PSL gives him and focus on banging in goals from there. This no club situation is jeopardising his chipolopolo chances as well so its bad from all angles.
I really feel for Mbesuma. Surely from top man and now failing trials when he should have been a straight signing without trials. I think (like most bloggers on here suggested), he should consider coming back to the ZPL and rebuild his career. I also wonder what it is that is making him fail to control his weight. It seems it (weight) is what is really taking him down.
Fwayo will leave to regret whatever action he takes. Ba Dinamo had an opportunity to hear first hand information the other week of how Vincent Mutale missed out on an opportunity to go to Kaiser Chiefs, when he told Kaiser Motaung point blank in a car at Pamodzi or Inters that Poulsen was instead arranging some professional stsint for him that never materialised to date. Vincent is a soldier in Kabwe and only plays madalas soccer. Ifyaiche ifi mulefyebako please (sorry for losing it here) but these boys when they make a bit of money out there, the next
thing they want is ukwisashaina mu Kalingalinga, Luanshya etc. When i think of wasted talent in Ronald Mbambara, Emmanuel Zulu, Calvin Chisha, Chanda Bwalya etc my heart really bleeds. Ba FAZ naimwe can you create mentorship programmes by involving guys like on this blog to mentor these guys that lack basic education and can only think so far in the midst of ubuchi(money, pesa …..).
Awe nomba ine nafulwa mwe with these kids and their never learning attitude. Even Mbesuma it beats me people on this DL saying we don’t trust the guy. How can we have faith in him when it is there for all to see that the guy is on a free fall and always has issues with skipping camp, delayed flights, delayed reporting etc. Talent he may have but that is no passport to insolence-by the way, Mbesema isn’t even half the talent his father Francis “Kempes” Kajiya was…I sign off in anger on how we continue losing/wasting such great talent pa Zed.
I am sure Zesco United would have loved to finish the first half of the season on top considering the assignment ahead. A point from the top is not bad at all considering the fact that the team has been fighting war on two fronts, national and international.Half the season gone and six international games and the team is yet to taste defeat.
This should prepare the team mentally as the upcoming games have more to do with mental strength than anything else.Well done to the technical bench and players for working so hard.Zambians should momentarily forget about their various club allegiance and give Zesco United support on 18 July in Chililabombwe.
people,where is our milton tembo,last time i heard he was in germany.has he retired?
Chindika, he is still in Germany at SV Grimmelfingen he just moved there from SpVgg Au/Iller. I remember the guy tested HIV+, but continued playing. I think it was quite a big story, because he decided not to keep quiet. I have to say well done to him for that. He showed immense courage and strength.
sad strory but ill give the guy enough respect for his courage,i remember the guy when he puched a referee in a game against roan united and faz banned him for life,very exciting player.I wish him well.@Whisper