Players Abroad: AC Oulu and TP Mazembe claw back for victories

Monday, October 5, 2009, 0:50
Zambian Players Abroad
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CAF Champions League

Given Singuluma’s TP Mazembe of Congo made a strong statement in the 1st leg of the semi-finals. Travelling to Al-Hilal in Sudan, Mazembe were down early, but finished with an thrashing 5-2 victory.

In the other semi-final, an all Nigerian clash, Heartland defeated Kano Pillars 4-0 at home.

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Germany

Andrew Sinkala faced off against his former team SC Paderborn, as FC Augsburg drew 2-2 on the road. Sinkala played the entire match at centre back.

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France

Jonas Sakuwaha made his debut for FC Lorient as a 2nd half substitute against Toulouse. Sakuwaha came on in the 79th minute, and was on the field for the 90th minute penalty that won the match.

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Netherlands

FC Urecht continued their impressive start to the season, holding powerhouses PSV Eindhoven to a 0-0 draw. Jacob Mulenga played the entire 90 minutes at forward, but is still searching for his first Eredivisie goal.

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Portugal

Rainford Kalaba came on to start the 2nd half for Uniao de Leiria in their away match versus Leixoes. Uniao were stiffled by a 90th minute penalty call, losing the match 3-2.

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Sweden

Henrik Larsson provided a late winner for Helsingborgs IF at home to BK Hacken. Isaac Chansa came on as a substitute in the 75th minute.

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Edwin Phiri made an appearance, coming on as a 75th minute substitute for Ljungskile SK in a 3-0 victory last weekend.

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Finland

It was a disastorus trips to Espoo for RoPS as they suffered a monumental defeat at the hands of FC Honka, the final score was 9-0.

Stephen Kunda, Godfrey Chibanga, White Simwanza, and Christopher Musonda were in the starting lineup, while Nchimunya Mweetwa and Chileshe Chibwe came on as second half substitutes. The starting goalkeeper was back-up Kari-Pekka Syvajarvi. Godfrey Chibanga was ejected in the 87th minute after receiving his second yellow-card caution.

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AC Oulu continued their impressive form regaining top spot in the Ykkonen, after a tough match at rivals TP 47, in the border city of Tornio.

Dominic Yobe was in the starting lineup, starting the game in spot duty of right-back. While brother Donewell sat out the first game of his two-game suspension for his red card last weekend.

TP 47 capitalized early on, opening the scoring in the 7th minute. They doubled their lead in the second half with a goal in the 66th minute. The home side weren’t able to repel the Oulu attack for good, and Dominic’s shift to his normal central midfield position was the catalyst for the games change.

Former Finnish international Mika Nurmela scored in the 81st minute, and the flood gates opened. Dominic equalized in the 84th minute, twinkling the twine of the net for his 5th goal of the season, followed by Joni Korhonen putting the game away in the 87th minute.

Oulu jump back in the first place by two points over Viikingit, with one extra game played. There are two more weeks left in the season.

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South Africa

- Kennedy Mweene recorded a cleen sheet for Free State Stars as they drew 0-0 against league leaders Orlando Pirates.

- Francis Kombe came on as a substitute for Golden Arrows in the 37th minute in a 1-1 draw.

- Felix Katongo played the first 68 minutes for Mamelodi Sundowns, being substituted off with a 2-1 lead against Maritzburg United. Noah Chivuta played 90 minutes on the other side of the ball, the final score was 5-1.

- Clifford Mulenga played 66 minutes at striker for the Mpumalanga Black Aces, they were defeated 1-0 to Santos.

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Cyprus

AEP Pafos won their second game in a row, defeating APEP Enosis 2-1. Moses Sichone played the entire match, as with all other games this season.

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Israel

Maccabi Tel Aviv faced off at home against Hapoel Acre. Emmanuel Mayuka came off the bench at the 60th minute. Emmanuel had 2 shots on goal, in the 64 and 68 minutes but both were stopped by the Goalkeeper. The match finished 1-1.

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Hapoel Kiryat Shmone won 4-0 in an away game at Hapoel Marmorek. William Njobvu assisted on the first
goal in the 45th minute after a left-footed cross straight to the head of striker Elroi, who made no mistake on the finish. William was substituted off at half-time due to illness.

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34 Comments on “Players Abroad: AC Oulu and TP Mazembe claw back for victories”

Anonymous wrote on 5 October, 2009, 4:37
NOAH CHIVUTA SCORED AGAINST SUNDOWNS AND IT WAS A PK.I ALSO WATCHED JACOB MULENGA HE HAD 5 DESCENT CHANCES STILL DIDN’T TAKE THEM HIS NEEDS TO IMPROVE IN FRONT OF BUT HE USED HIS POWER TO FIGHT OFF DEFENDERS WHICH WAS GOOD
Awe wrote on 5 October, 2009, 4:44
Saku got some face time!!! This is great news. No goals this week, now that is worrying.
hosam wrote on 5 October, 2009, 5:25
wanna a zambian friend?
Georgia Russia wrote on 5 October, 2009, 5:43
Good for saku and hope he impresses in the next game.
Anonymous wrote on 5 October, 2009, 7:58
Is Mbesuma still suspended?
Sibs wrote on 5 October, 2009, 8:26
Rops lost 9-0! Yaba is Saileti still coaching the team. 9-0 heh!
mike larry wrote on 5 October, 2009, 9:05
boring…. any luck the national team will get any friendly games before egypt?
Geogia Russia wrote on 5 October, 2009, 9:27
The guys in finland are just time wasters.no zambian player has moved frm finland to a better club.9-0 is 2 big a margin and this is a team wth about 7 zambian players or rather say ts a zambian club based in finland.t does nt move me much,wen i hear that goals were scored there.
Kolokombwa wrote on 5 October, 2009, 9:47
Is Rops a Zambian madalas team or what ? I doubt whether there is serious football there. I think its just an employment centre with Saileti as the facilitator. With so many Zambians in the team, a Zambia coach – i think banwa fye abaiche !
m wrote on 5 October, 2009, 9:49
Kolokombwa :
Is Rops a Zambian madalas team or what ? I doubt whether there is serious football there. I think its just an employment centre with Saileti as the facilitator. With so many Zambians in the team, a Zambia coach – i think banwa fye abaiche !

This RoPS is completely professional team. It’s hard to believe but it’s true.
Ngulube wrote on 5 October, 2009, 10:02
RoPs is a tourist team how dou lose 9-0,ts amazng.
Am glad nw felix hez seeing games
chiti chitundu wrote on 5 October, 2009, 11:30
well from my observation i have se that its either our players are subsituted or geting in as subs. not good at all when you are playing in low leagues and low divisions. but hey our league here in zambia isnt as competetive and so is our national team and that spills over to the quality of players that we send overseas. we need to work on our league and marketing of our players abroad to clubs with a good vision and ambition so as to close the gap a bit. Look at the number of players in georgia,finland,hungary,armenia etc. you will hardly find any national team player for ivory coast or cameroun ,nigeria playing in such leagues, worse by being a sub. not god at all for our national team , thats why we find i hard to qualify for anything these days. We hope that katongo doeant end in the second tier, lets count on kalaba and jacob, maybe they can bring back the days of kalusha and charles musonda in UEFA matches
Seen from afar wrote on 5 October, 2009, 12:39
@m It must be hard M, is there anything left to salvage from the season? What’s the way forward for Rops?

Zamfoot, any word on Mbola?
MM BIN ADAM wrote on 5 October, 2009, 12:58
Geogia Russia :The guys in finland are just time wasters.no zambian player has moved frm finland to a better club.9-0 is 2 big a margin and this is a team wth about 7 zambian players or rather say ts a zambian club based in finland.t does nt move me much,wen i hear that goals were scored there.

True, really true
Anonymous wrote on 5 October, 2009, 13:06
Seen from afar :@m It must be hard M, is there anything left to salvage from the season? What’s the way forward for Rops?
Zamfoot, any word on Mbola?

In my opinion, this season was a huge disaster. RoPS is currently on the last position in the league. They need to win their last match against KuPS and JJK have to lose their own against Tampere United.

It seems like the Africans who are playing for RoPS doesn’t have the right attitude.
Vincent Numbwa wrote on 5 October, 2009, 16:07
Kalulushi Mordern Stars 1 : 0 Nkana, Nkana maintained the lead for division one north after Rangers who were second on the table drew at Nchanga Staduim. The game played at Independence Staduim (Home staduim for hosts) in Kalulushi was even untill three minutes to go when the hosts scored to ensure they collected maximum points from the league leaders.

Mighty got all the three points at shinde and are closing up on Nkana and Rangers making the promotion fight tricky for the three former premier league clubs.

Nkana supporter were not happy with results and showed thier displeasure by showering the dressing rooms for the players and official with stones after the game. The violent Nkana fans had to be dispersed by tear gases by the alert police before their acts could degenerate into some fatality.

My Appeal to all Nkana Supporters is, please let us be peacefull we can not be picking up stones every time we lose, there are better ways of expressing our feeling.
m wrote on 5 October, 2009, 16:11
Jojo :
Am happy for jonas,i hope the coach gives him the chance to prove himself,he has the right attributes to succeed in france,he can also play in a number of different positions which is an advantage.Jacob also seems to be doing well,even though he is yet to score,their coach keeps selecting him which means he must be doing something right..Rops are a disaster,9-0 is just too much,what language do they use in finland?maybe there is communication breakdown between the zambian contingent and the rest..

Finnish and Swedish are official languages of Finland. But every one in Finland can speak English also so that cannot be the problem.
Copper Bullet(Chipolopolo) wrote on 5 October, 2009, 16:35
Gud game 4 Saku,I hope to see him play on the Zambian soil once more on saturday.Lets go Zambia!!
Never wrote on 5 October, 2009, 16:47
chiti chitundu :well from my observation i have se that its either our players are subsituted or geting in as subs. not good at all when you are playing in low leagues and low divisions. but hey our league here in zambia isnt as competetive and so is our national team and that spills over to the quality of players that we send overseas. we need to work on our league and marketing of our players abroad to clubs with a good vision and ambition so as to close the gap a bit. Look at the number of players in georgia,finland,hungary,armenia etc. you will hardly find any national team player for ivory coast or cameroun ,nigeria playing in such leagues, worse by being a sub. not god at all for our national team , thats why we find i hard to qualify for anything these days. We hope that katongo doeant end in the second tier, lets count on kalaba and jacob, maybe they can bring back the days of kalusha and charles musonda in UEFA matches

It is a pity my dear.The truth is the size of your economy will determine how much is invested in football.How come in South Africa MTN sponsors a number of soccer teams while in Zambia its contribution to sport is just a drop in the ocean.Why? The answer is simply because in South africa the economy is quite big and strong and as such their revenues are huge and thus can afford to spend some on sport.Of course they are other factors at play but at the end of the day, the amount of money in your economy will determine how much soccer/sport will get.
Anonymous wrote on 5 October, 2009, 19:16
sakuhawa you ‘re the future for zed football.Wrk hard.
Uncle Bobs wrote on 6 October, 2009, 5:18
Never,
I don’t whether size of economy is directly proportional to sports investment especially when I think of perhaps smaller economies like Burkina Faso having hosted the AFCON that Zambia failed to do in 1988 leading to the Dag razing down. Also remember the ALL AFRICA GAMES saga