Comments on: Kachepa on the Ball: Transfer & rumour mill news

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:22:37 +0000

Dr-Five, I’m with you. Age cheating is everywhere, and when I mean everywhere, I mean WORLDWIDE. Why is it that the European countries are never questioned? If those Germans and Italians we see at the U-20 level, are U-20, then katwishi. Stop with all this self-hatred! Age-cheating is not good, but that is the least of our problems!

By: patty kasonde

patty kasonde — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:20:11 +0000

Dr_five please may you stop this nonsense of supporting age cheaters. it is people like you who are contributing to bringing soccer standards down in zambia and sub-saharan africa. i hope hope by supporting this age cheating you are not a soccer player yourself. cursed are you age cheaters, how do you expect God to bless you when you enter soccer on the premise of lies? lies never last, it is only the truth which lasts. ask collins mbesuma and chris, they will tell you how devastating age cheating is because they are victims of age cheating themselves.
nowander the zambia national soccer team of the kalusha bwalya’s, charles musonda’s and the like was succesful because age cheating wasn’t as rampant then as it is now. I am suggesting that we come up with a system in zambia to ascertain players real ages. we don’t want a repeat of the sad experience we have faced with mbesuma and chris where they blossom for a little while and fade away suddenly because old age has caught up with them.
i think in the current national team, I would say joseph and jacob are the only players who have come close to telling their real age.

By: Dr_five

Dr_five — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:43:20 +0000

Age cheatin is everywhere guys, except tat Zambians re the only pipo who never support there players when things re bad, just a little motivation can go a long way guys, i assure you,

By: Gametime12

Gametime12 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:48:12 +0000

Josef, RSA I will be shocked too, but I hear perry has been trying to get back in shape. What does that say about making a comeback? Mbesuma still has a chance to pick up his form, but his no Perry so he should try to do that soon. Perry actually had a similar case as that of Mbesuma, he became overweight. I remember he used to train with some sort of a belt on his stomach, so that he would lose that potbelly.

I think the issue of age cheating is everywhere in Africa. In my opinion I think its a mater of how long it takes to be recognized. using your original birth date wont take you anywhere, and this is after you do the math. Scouts usually look for young players, and coming from a country called Zambia does not help. By the time they hear about you, you’d be hitting 30′s. This will only stop if our players start going abroad at a young age. I know most of the players dream of playing in Europe. In order to make that dream come true you have to lie about your age, I bet most of you would do the same thing.

By: soccer pundit

soccer pundit — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:27:32 +0000

age cheating is indeed real.why is it that most of our players are married at a tender age.e.g given singuluma turned 23 today and to me he does not look like 23.anther close sourse tells me fwayo was born in 82 not 89 as he puts it.do u think such players can play for a long time like 5 years.off course wen u do yo maths he 5 years from now he will be 30 something

By: josef,RSA

josef,RSA — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:21:00 +0000

@Anonymous interesting if its true

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:45 +0000

Age cheating is what has
brought zambian football down. like myself we were class mates with EMMANUEL MBOLA in grade 8D and 9D at Mansa High School and we liked calling him ba ‘Emma’ that was in 2001 and 2002.

In 2002 MBOLA played in Coca Cola championship, that was secondary school championship, and in the same year was selected in the Luapula secondary selected the team that was representing Luapula in the interprovincials.

In 2002 MBOLA was older and stronger that me and most our classmates, eccept he was shotter than me, but come today am 23 and him is still 16? that is all, and am not trying to pull him down coz he is stil young and
talented but not 16 or 17.

go!!! mbola

By: Georgia Russia

Georgia Russia — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:56:13 +0000

every old players has to tire up at one point or the other.how can one explain the tiring of chris,collins wen they just in thier mid and late twenties.are they telling us thier real age or wat.thier careers are just to shot and for me it tells me that thier is a lot of age cheating.

By: josef,RSA

josef,RSA — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:47:23 +0000

sorry meant i will be shocked

By: josef,RSA

josef,RSA — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:39:55 +0000

@Gametime12 @Big Steve from SA just look at this i will be shock if swallows leaves out mbesuma and signs mutapa The Siya crew can exclusively reveal that former Orlando Pirates midfielder Perry Mutapa is training with Moroka Swallows, hoping to secure a deal with the Dube Birds! Mutapa left Pirates at the end of the 2005/06 season and went back home to Zambia, where he played for Lusaka Dynamos. He was also on the books of FC AK, although for a short stint. According to our sources, Mutapa is now training with Swallows. “He’s training with Swallows but nothing has come out of it yet. I think the team is still assessing him,” revealed a source close to the player. When the Siya crew called Swallows, a member of the technical team confirmed, speaking on condition of anonymity, that Mutapa was indeed training with the Dube Birds. “Yes, that’s true, he’s training here with a number of other trialists, but we haven’t finalised anything yet. We’ll give them another week or so before we decide who to sign.” {source laduma}