Preview: KCM/FAZ Premier League
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There will be five other top flight fixtures including Lusaka Dynamos’ trip to Choma Eagles , Forest Rangers versus Kabwe Warriors and already relegated duo of Young Arrows and Nakambala Leopards visit to the Copperbelt and face Konkola Blades and Zamtel respectively.
In the final fixture fourth placed City of Lusaka travel to Ndola and date Roan United who have shifted base temporarily due to crowd problems in Luanshya. Zanaco’s home tie against Chambishi has been postponed due the bankers missing six players away on International duty in Zimbabwe.
Table-toppers Zesco United could open a six point lead if they collect maximum points against the inconsistency Mathews Phiri’s Red Arrows at Nkoloma.
Fighton ‘Big Figh’ Simukonda will be missing three key players; Jacob Banda, Hichani Himonde and Enoch Sakala who are away on international duty while the airmen will only be without the duo of Jimmy Chisenga and Ndhlovu.
With second placed Zanaco not in action, the Ndola side could increase the tally to 57 points with only 5 games to go.
Power Dynamos should enter their game with Green Buffaloes on high after their last win over Zesco United in the Barclays Cup quarter finals last weekend. Dropping points in this tie will diminish any chance of the Ndeke boys’ CAF continental football hopeful next year.
Click here to view the league table.
Full Fixture
Choma Eagles v Lusaka Dynamos
Forest Rangers FC v Kabwe Warriors
Green Buffaloes v Power Dynamos
Roan United v City of Lusaka FC
Zamtel v Nakambala Leopads
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welcome Ba Zesco,we dont care if you reached the group stages of the champions league but we respect you.we will show you the difference and you see why we are surely the brazzing arrows.
Arrows 2 Zesco 1 it was supposed to be 2zero nomba namwifwilako uluse,i was watching training session in the morning abaiche naba pya.
What a weekend this will be and being dinamo of course i will be at woodlands, of course i can boast of hard tackling laughter who has a no nonsense philosophy ask Jackson Mwanza and he will tell you, we have kennedy Mudenda, if you saw what Mukuka was doing on the right yesterday come and see what Kennedy will do on the left, then we have perhaps one of the best midfielders but for his size, Joseph Sitali to marshal the midfield. Thank god that chap Elson is not seeing any more game time, he is a waste of space on the power team, if we are to compete in continental football next year we need a striker or two because honestly we have none, i wont say because Luka is not around and bla bla i fancy we will beat buffaloes 2-1. On the other hand if Red Arrows play the way they did against Zanaco, hmm then Zesco have cause to worry because they had a good game, Kamutazi was just brilliant, what is it with these old guys they are maturing a litu too late. Zega always wins albeit when they haven’t put up a splendid performance except against power though, lol so 1-0 to zega
umwana arrows kamuzati ,sibanda ,judge ,Timo ,Sakala , londwani okay mukamona ubukali bwa kanjamu Arrows
LIfe is a change of series to bad for zesco coz the will register a lose at the hands of the Kajamu tepepe Arrows,nkoloma will be my destination.abaiche ba sparks naba kwata game ni lesa somone.
Yes baDoc and baSpaks.
It’s great to see Power90 back in full effect. Kabole has completely turned things around by instilling an attacking philosophy into the Ndeke boys. It’s so refreshing to see a team winning 2 or 3 bar rather than the usual 1-0 or 0-0 that characterise our game. I really hope that ‘the Kabole way’ is a contageous disease and other clubs catch the bug as our league needs to become a lot more exciting and the best way to ensure excitement is a goal-fest! Spaks, who (if anyone) do you think Power should get to pull on the No 9. shirt?
Doctor, I didn’t know that you are an Arrow? If I had known I would have told baZambia when we were at Sunset. I have to say that I have a soft spot for them because they seem to punch above their weight and like to use wingers (maybe it is because they are the airforce team). I am a big proponent of wing play. On the evidence of the game against Zanaco, Sibanda is a good player. I would like to see more of the boy. Kamuzati was also really dominant in that game and completely shut out the Zanaco frontline. Is he worth a recall?
Guys, I don’t mean to stir a hornets nest but can we have an update on the allowances issue? Mr Mwamelo came on and issued a statement effectively calling Zamfoot liars. Is there any investigation into the claims or are we going to do the typical Zambian thing of burying our heads and forgetting?
Also just reading on Muvi TV website that bailiffs have visited Football House and taken property because a car hire firm is owed money.
Eye’s on the ball?!
2bad 4young arrows and nakambala i stil believe zanaco cn win da league
Mwapoleni bane. Batila ati; Uwakwensha ubushiku ba mutasha ulucelo, sharp konkola blades kakabalika panthu abaiche ba Y. Arrows wil be baptised. Konkola Blades forever
GBFC Vs Power, I hope this one will be as explosive as those days, when bena Francis Kagiya Balepisha Bena Michael Musonda ama olilo. I once witnessed ba Michael Musonda uku ba pika kuli ulya umu ngalato wa kwa Kagiya pa Gabbitas Stadium, ba Michael uku tinta kagiya mwi jesi awe tata lyalepuka. Those were ama days kwena. I will never forget that game. That was when Power had bena Bizwell, Alex and co. and GBFC had bena Kagiya, Miltone Muke, Jack Simbule, Lutoba, Biwell Chibwe etc. Anyway ni soccer stars of the past. May the best team win today and I hope ni ba Power D. a baby born with teeth
I forgot Peter Power Abaleya Kaumba, whom I first watched at Chiwempala Stadium when Power were mu Division 1, but on their way to the ZPL. They were playing KB Davies who had Fighton Simukonda now Zesco coach at center back. The first time I saw bena Peter Kaumba and Co. na jesi ja yellow and utu ma black strips from around the chest going down wards (admirul or smething like that). I recall that game very well having seen abena Richard Stevenson ( did not play) and ba Grant Chisenga. It was amazing. Bati yali ni Power Dynamos under Arthur Davies(MHSRIP)
BaMuzo, how I wish you could provide a live commentary of the action over the web! Guys, we need to chat about the Napsa declaration and take stock of where things are. I am fearful that we might be losing momentum on this.
I really do not know the way forward, cause it is like good ideas are not welcome. Katwishi
A very warm welcome to you all we are live at woodlands. Whisper we get bak to u and away we go
Gbfc applyin early pressure and i hear arrows is 1-0 up,
Thanks Spaks. Keep us updated with scores and goings on.
Well wel wel the match has opend up with some lovely football, simon bwalya joseph sitali n mudenda hav taken things personal 0-0 non the less
Bielefeld have just beaten Energie Cottbus 2-0. Chris scored a good volley at the near post.
Whisper, i received the email from Francis on the “Napsa declaration”. I would like to contribute my two cents aswell, but alas i won’t be making it to Zambia anytime soon. Is there an online forum on which we can further communication, i suggest using the Fanzone – Zamfoot forum. Is that ok?
chris Katongo has scored for his team in their 2-0 win!!!!
@Seen from afar
I am not in Zambia at the moment too, but the discussions at Napsa concentrated on improving the site and making it more professional. I think the guys in Zed are making good progress but I would like to try and contribute too (as would a few others I suspect), so my appeal is that we have an update on where things are and areas needing attention. I think your suggestion of using the fanzone is fantastic. I will try and co-ordinate something.
Where are you by the way?
It has ended 0-0 and zesco has won 2-1
Whisper, i’m in Manchester. Are you down south near London? Looking forward to an open and focused discussion to improve and help Zamfoot.
@Seen from afar
Yes, I’m in London.
@Spaks
Sorry ba Dinamo, mukose!
Lack of depth in our team had truly let us down.For one chiwaiki was below par and the guy was just too selfish,we controlled the first half well and we would have gone two up.Thumbs up to the goalkeeper he was great.
We missed the services of Jimmy Chisenga and due to lack of right backs Judge Mkandawire deptised and did a good job but after he changed the position following the instructions from the coach William chinyama started to charge more upfront and crosses started coming in.
Timothy Mbewe is as well a let down,we need better strikers we dont derserve to sit were we are sitting on kcm table.we controlled much of the game but we lack depth,how i wish Jimmy Njobvu played.
good news for zambia thanks Ba Whisper.Arrows is good side we need a good coach and do some good business during the transfer window.Sibanda is goog player and we can see the best from him if they play him on the right position probably just behind the strikers,the chap has got a good swift feet.
Doc why not offer your services as coach?
Guys, why is there silence on the site. We are playing in the final today!
Typical Zambia. Go to the cosafa website they have live updates.
anywhere online, where we can watch the game? please update us
its boring there guys, need here where we can put our ideas and prognosis
Bola yatampa
anybody watching?update us please
0-0 so far game 50-50. Bob in the stands watching the Game. Stadium packed. Zambian same line up that played semis start.
thanx Sibs.how many minutes played so far?
Zambia 2 corners Zim 10coner. We playin well slightly having an edge maybe 55% to 45% possession.
zim already 10 corners? Sibs
Sorry Zim 1 corner.
ooooooooo thats good.great Jojo.keep it up
Zim have equalised H.H beaten by their numer 9, loose marking by H.H.
These guys on the cosafa website aren’t giving us the ‘flavour’ of the match. Can someone give us a blow by blow account?
Henry Banda scored a lovely goal . beat about 3 Zim defenders in the box and took a short.
Sorry Sibs and Jono, I was busy writing the post when your contributions came in. Thanks for the updates.
My man remember we watching the game as well as sending comments forgive us for errors. Its a tough & tense game H.Banda booked for a bad foul.
Guys any site to see the much?
1-1
Zimbabwe are playing the long ball forward. We building from the back Luka Lungu playing better today and S.Mwansa also good game.
Zim have scored !! 2-1
BaSkillari, nothing mwana. We are relying on the good will of Jojo and Sibs (doing a wonderful job) for updates.
The guys on Cosafa are just telling us about shots and corners. We also want to know who is shusha-ing who and the like.
Come on boys!!
HH has cost us 2goals.
H.H bad marking he went up for a header but the same number 12 for Zim beat him to a header to score. He’s a former basketballer we told. Hes not very tall though same height and build like H.H. It was a cross from the right wing.
how many more minutes to go
@Whisper
Affirmative ba Whisper,
Good luck to the boys.
Jojo and team keep it up:)
3-1 to Zim they dominating now !
There is a blow by low account on Cosafa!!!
first half? or second half
its 1st half
3-1?! At least this tournament isn’t recognised by FIFA!
amamamamama ine 3 goals first half? whats the problem?
HR is very predictable, his formation and tactics are very predictable. Any team that counter attacks can and will beat Zambia. hope this will bring the best out of HR.
Knowing Hr he is panicking and trying to make changes.
Half time. I thought HR would start with F.Sunzu today our frontline is gone dead Sakala needs help. A.Mukuka is being roughed up today hes been out twice or so with the medicals. Dennis Banda was substituted just after the second goal.
If i’m not mistaken Zim has never beaten us by more than 2 goals i may be wrong but today it looks like happening. The Zim central defence is not being strecthed we neeed Sunzu in !
This relaxed playing in defence is costing us. Dennis and Hichani are playing like we are already winning the game. At least the coach finally had the good sense to remove Jimmy although it was after the striker on his flank had already banged in two goals. The Zimbabweans had three touches in the box befor the third goal how ridiculus is that. We need another body in midfield and another striker I think the Zimbabweans have totally read out our 4 3 3 game plan and for the last 20 minutes of the second half are running through our midfield. We need a change maybe the traditional 442 cause they are toying with us at the moment. Lets see if there is any promise in the second half
Guys, can one of you sum up the first half. Where are we misfiring?
I am loving this, way to HR, we need you for world cup 2014.
Sorry guys. Again you were too quick for me
no comment
I meant 20 minutes of first half though I also agree with Sibs Felix Sunzu should be brought in. Allan has been targeted and I will be surprised if he finishes the game cause the ref is also not providing enough protection. HR should not panick but I hope he trained the boys in alternative formations cause we need a new formation in the second half.
Guys who’s wearing jersey number 20 at the back ?
Looking at the second goal during the highlights i think D.Banda should have headed that ball away before it got to H.H and the Zim #12.
HR has no idea about football, his 433 formation is too predictable and is not working for us. Any sensible and good coach would have changed the formation a long time ago.
We don’t produce the quality of players who can play the dutch system, we are used to the English 442 formation.
Though I am not watching the game, I am fully confident that Zim are not defending too deep and are using much of the wide players. Any team that plays like this will have a 80% chance of beating Zambia.
Two substitutions left. Zim may shut up shop and allow us to attack again. I don’t think it’s over just yet.
Guys, considering that hardly of our local teams play 4-4-3 could it be that the players find it very difficult to adjust to the system at National team?
30 mins remaining our frontline still needs to push forward.
@Seen from afar
Zambia under HR does not score more than 1 goal and I don’t see us scoring 2 goals in this half.
@Whisper
Thats true, that is the point we have been to to clarify ever since HR became coach. He does not understand our national brand (442). We don’t produce players for the 433 formation.
5-2. AM OUT!!!!
HR should go, I don’t even want him at AFCON if we happen to qualify.
What’s happening?
what is the score???????????????????????????????????????????????
16 minutes to go.
Sunzu is brought some life up front after coming in for Sakala.It looks like Zimbabwe are wining this ones.
Sunzu is brought some life up front after coming in for Sakala.It looks like Zimbabwe are wining this one.
two different national teams,one caoch,cosafa one and the world cup afcon one.whos at fault,i think hr is failing us.
hmmm
wat is the scoreline?
Eish. What can I say? I think HR’s posiiton is becoming untenable, if we lose in Rwanda then he has to go even if we make it to AFCON.
ooooooooohh i dont knw what is the solution to our national team.always disappointing.anyway, the whole country is in a natural calamity. only God knows
It’s over 2 minutes to go.
We’ll see what HR has to say, he has not said very much of late. We’ll see what the fall out is…
AWE NATUFILWA
scores please….is it true it 5-2? i’ll be surprise if HR takes zambia to AFCON…..Then i don’t know what it will take to open the eyes of the zambian people how useless this guy is. Being white doesn’t make him a great coach
HR should have been fired along time ago, the man has no football knowledge. Do we even need him for the Rwanda game? With his tactics, HR might even cost us a place at next years AFCON.
HR is only over rated in Zambia by some fickle fans and FAZ, the rest of the world know the guy is useless who is just a useless dreamer.
Sebastian Mwansa was my best player for Zambia for me.
This might sound wrong, I am very happy that we lost against Zim and lets hope Rwanda destroy us 3-0. I really need a beer for this. Hope this will make people realize that HR is no national team material.
H.R, Whisper I agree things look untainable.
I think HR going is one thing and the quality of our players is equally rubbish though.
It will be disasterous to go with HR to AFCON. That guy is not he best we can have. From day one, we all knew we were getting a raw coach who was not any better than the Zambian coaches.
why did faz employ such a person without any cv?they like cheap labour.get a coach who ll deliver.not ayo madzabwani awe nakana.loosing against zimbabwe, eeee mama ine mavutoo
hi contract should be terminated 2morrow.his tactics doesnt work. we have players who need to be improved.i have been watching the way chri katongo, mbola and jacob mulenga play at they clubs, if we can use these players very well, we ll go very far. hh is will do nothing for us.why employ somebody who doesnt even speak good english?that one is an obstacle as well, how can u express yourself to the players.he should go before we go very far on fifa ranking
3 – 1 against zimbabwe?how is the world going to look at us?the way they know zimbabwe.
Guys,
If Rwanda need 2-0 to qualify to AFCON. They will have 3 or even 4, unless something is done to the central defence and defending midfield.
The defence was simply pathetic. I have always been jittery about the central defence of Hichani and Denis Banda. These two guys are two blame for all the goals that ZIM scored. These are the guys to play in kigali?. They tend to be slow and poor in judgement. It was the same in the game against Algeria in Chilis. I honestly thought Renard could have tried Kamuzati at this tournament.
I am one of the people who has been calling for Enock Sakala. I think he has proved that he is not international material. He should be droped immediately. The chap is lazy and painfully slow and cannot do much with his feet.
Stopilla Sunzu, has one big problem in my view and i hope the coaching staff do talk to him. He simply cannot make a good pass. Today, almost all his pases went astray, thereby giving away possession and putting the team under unneceesary pressure. Thankfully he was substituted.
I think that Red Arrows Dan Sibanda should also have been tried. He is such a wonderful midfielder. In my view he has much more impact than Henry Banda as an attacking midfielder.
As for the coach, Zambia will not lose anything nor shed a tear by doing away with him. However, this should have happened immediately after the Egypt defeat.
Against Rwanda, Isack Chansa, William Ndobvu, Clifford Mulenga should see action and there should be a review of the central defence. But with Renard, i wonder if this can happen.
hh doesnt make any changes to the team.the same team which failed against egypt is the same team he ll use.i dont understand him
A lot of bloggers criticized Nyambe Mulenga before He got injured, and the same bloggers praised HH. I remember a couple of us stading up for Nyambe Mulenga. Just think about 3 goals against Zimbabwe Egypt failed to put that many goals behind the Nyambe Mulenga led defense at their home ground. I was never comfortable with HH in the back, if you watch the highlights of the game against Algeria you will find that Algeria should have scored more goals because of HH. I mean these same people wanted Enock Sakala to be given a chances, but they are complaining about his performance at the tournament. At some point they had asked for Mbesuma, i’m sure there are more players that the fans feel should be in the national team and when they (players) fail fans will find other players to talk about. HR should be fired, bring in Patric PHiri and I hope He’ll make it because if He fails His going to be fired for the 3rd? 4th? time. Then one wonders why We never get anywhere, We’ve been changing coaches and players as if its a club.
lets bring in a new coach, not va ba pp.he has failed us before. why should we go back to him? get a big coach.to make money we need to use money.so lets hire a coach that will make a team, experienced. hr easily looses hope, one we have been scored, therefore making him unqualified
faz have got money, they should train their own coaches
We are just in shambles everywhere-country running on autopilot, self-imposed fuel shortages etc. What do we expect with football?
I agree with you, but then again this problem goes far beyond HR. I mean think about it, We used to be among the best teams of Africa; why is it taking us too long to get back on our feet?. What We are offering are short term solutions, some claim that We don’t have players who can fit in the 4-3-3 formation how can you then claim to be a national team material When you cant adjust to some formation. Could this be why We don’t have a single player playing in a big club? Because they are failing to adjust. If you cant adjust to a new formation then you should not be in the national team. This just goes back to what some blogger’s have been saying, We do not have quality players.
LETS GIVE RENARD ANOTHER ONE YEAR TO SEE IF HE GETS IT RIGHT AND DON’T SAY HE DOESN’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ZAMBIAN FOOTBALL COZ HE HAS LWANDAMINA WHO HAS BEEN NATIONAL TEAM ASSISTANT FOR SO MANY YEARS AND HAS OBVIOUSLY INFLUENCED RENARD HERVE IN PICKING THE PLAYERS FOR THE NATIONAL TEAM SO MAYBE IF RENARD HAD A GOOD ASSISTANT WE COULD BE IN A DIFFERENT SITUATION. THE OTHER REASON WE LOST THE FINAL IS BECAUSE ZIMBABWE HAS A BETTER LOCAL LEAGUE THAN OURS WHICH HAS NO REAL INFRASTRUCTURE THATS WHY ZIMBABWEAN CLUBS DO BETTER IN CAF COMPETITIONS BECAUSE THEIR LEAGUE IS VERY COMPETITIVE . AND THATS THE REASON THEY ARE ABLE TO BUILD A STRONGER LOCAL BASED NATIONAL TEAM THAN ZAMBIA. I THINK FAZ SHOULD HIRE SCOUTS OR GIVE RENARD MORE MONEY TO TRAVEL OVER THE WORLD TO WATCH ZAMBIAN PLAYERS IN THEIR VARIOUS LEAGUES SO HE CAN MAKE DECISIONS ON PERFORMANCE AND NOT JUST NAMES. IN THE END I SAID IT THAT ZAMBIA’S DEFENSE IS THE REASON WE ARE IN THE KIND OF SITUATION WE NEED EXPERIENCED CENTER BACK DENNIS BANDA AND NYAMBE MULENGA ARE NOT BAD BUT THEY LACK THE EXPERIENCE TO PLAY AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE MOVED TO SOUTH AFRICA OR EUROPE TO GET THAT KIND OF EXPERIENCE. ANY WAY ALL THE BEST IN THE FUTURE ZAMBIA AND RENARD HERVE IS OUR MAN NOT MATTER WHAT WE SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Did I expect to be a good signing? No, if he had something special Ghana wouldn’t have let him go so easily. Ghana rejected HR.
2. I am I disappointed with the national team performance? No, it has always been expected that we will loose many games, it is just the case of how many will loose.
3. Should HR stay beyond AFCON? I really don’t care, its not my decision to make.
4. Will Zambia get any better in future under HR? We haven’t gotten any better since he became coach.
HR should change the formation ASAP, if we play the same 433 in Rwanda we beat us and might not even qualify for AFCON. He plays the formation the wrong way and the players don’t seem to like it.
I hope Rwanda beat us so that we get rid of HR ASAP.
We travel by plane we loose, we travel by road the same. What next? Let them walk to Rwanda maybe we shall win
1. Did I expect HR to be a good signing? No, if HR had something special Ghana wouldn’t let him go so easily. Ghana rejected HR.
2. I am I disappointed with the national team performance? No, it has always been expected that we’ll loose many games under HR, it is just the case of how many we’ll loose.
3. Should HR stay beyond AFCON? I really don’t care, it is not my decision to make. It did not want him last year, performances are not getting any better.
4. Will Zambia get any better in future under HR? We haven’t gotten any better since HR was appointed coach.
5. Are you sad that Zambia did not win the COSAFA and that they did not qualify for the world cup next year? I did not expect them to qualify for the world cup, and I did not expect them to win the COSAFA cup either.
6. Do you expect Zambia to win the CECAFA cup? No, I don’t expect them to win anything under HR.
7. Will Zambia qualify for AFCON? We should have qualified for AFCON before the Rwanda match anyway. It will depend on how many goals Rwanda are going to score but I expect Rwanda to qualify for AFCON.
8. Should Zambia qualify? Even if they qualified I don’t expect them to get past the group stages.
9. Do you have players to win AFCON next year? firstly we don’t deserve to be competing at AFCON next year. I wouldn’t talk of wining AFCON at the moment, that would just be my wishful thinking.
I hope Rwanda beat us so that we get rid of HR ASAP.
There is no hope
People look at a picture of Chris of this site lifting the Cosafa Cup. My point is those days Zambia had a full time, all the players in South Africa. Even when we won CESAFA, its not like we had local players, it was a full time. I have even said HR is the best coach but my point is firing him is not a solution. In any case Zambia can not afford a top notch coach.
HR should go now. We cant wait till he disappoints us against Rwanda and cost us a place at CAN.
@Chamz
Apparently these players are so dull they cannot adjust to a (simple) 4-3-3 formation, which should be too easy for any player in any national team to understand. Chamz How do We school these chaps? Could this be the reason our pro’s settle for small leagues?To save themselves from the trouble of mastering other formations? That’s not good for our future, sometimes a single game calls for more than one formation. I don’t see how We are going to get anywhere by only mastering one formation.
Game12, that is why I don’t blame the coach 100%.
If we don’t qualify for Angola, I would expect HR to resign or be fired. Even if we qualify for Angola, I don’t have too much expectations. We just don’t have good players, you guys can blame the coach as much as you want to. Think of it Zim managed to host Cosafa despite economic problems.
@Gametime12
@Chamz
Gents ine nanaka kwena na ba chipantepante. Bushe bulwele bwashini kanshi? God help Zambia please. I do not know what to say
well thats what zambians are best at blaming and blaming….. Fuel crisis is also to blame for the dismal display of our boys….. OK its enough now HR is leaving.!
I expected players like F.Sunzu to start this game and Maunga Kabuku to have come off the bench. If i was the coach i would have started F.Sunzu in the game and let Enoch to come off the bench.
Currently from what i saw in the three games we played at this year’s Cosafa i feel Felix is in better shape than C.Mbesuma and G.Singuluma. This is my personal opion. The guy showed strength, power in the air and he was able to take on players. All i saw in Enoch is aerial ability i have nothing personal about the guy but i feel he has a lot to work on as a striker.
Having said all that i have said i would include F.Sunzu in the team to play Rwanda and let Chintu Kapamba replace D.Banda or HH at central defence. But knowing HR kaya?
Justice, follow these steps and you will never be heart broken:
1. Continue to support Zambia on the basis that you are a Zambian not that we have a good team at the moment
2. Accept that we are not a soccer giant, we are not on the level of 1996 and 1994 at the moment.
3. Don’t have too much expectations ( like going for 2010 or winning Africa cup etc)
4. Accept that we don’t have good players
5. Don’t endanger your health because of Zambian football
6.Dream that in future boys like Allan Mukuka, Mbola, Sunzu, Mayuka will make it big and play for big teams.
7.
8. Visit Zambian websites, like this one, Lusaka Times, read comments on Zambian football laugh and have fun.
These facts will help you overcome ichitima and ubulwele like BP.
@Sibs
I totally support you on Sunzu. The last time I watched him was when he came on as sub Vs Cameroon at AFCON2008, he was great to watch. The boy has “FISIC” he is strong and not afraid, but I just wondered why PP did not use him in the next game, same goes for Kalaba. Sunzu is the best striker we have, partner him with Jacob and we will see goals
Correction above i was supposed to say, that’s my personal opinion not opion. Sorry!
Thanks bro man
Sibs, HR is both right and wrong in what he says:
We saw Enoch Sakala, HR said the guy is not international material-from what I saw of Enoch there is an element of truth. Its even better to have guys like Jacob, Mbesuma. I don’t think Felix is match fit, that is why he only played a few minutes.
On Chintu, the problem is not defence, the problem is scoring, at least we scored 4 goals in Zimbabwe. HR said only three players will be part of the Rwanda team. I guess this will be: Stophilla, HH and Dennis.
That is why it does not make sense to say Cosafa and CECEFA are part of preps because most of these players, don’t play for the main team.
@Justice Kafusha
Justice Mudala that’s where i fail to understand H.R tactics in “little” things like this. When you look at statistics between the two strikers you will see that Sunzu had more attempts at goal than Enoch. Though the other had more game time. Yes the boy is got “body” and everything.
Chamz who looked fitter Felix or Enoch ? Yes the guy is unattached but he looked a better option than Mbesuma again this personal.
Chamz though i agree with you on alot of the above. Good advice !
Chamz how do u talk of or write of Felix not being fit, when we have had clubless players being featured for important World Cup qualifying games? I won’t buy that one brother. Fwayo Tembo, S. Sunzu, Mbesuma, Nkausu, Felix Katongo were all picked by HR despite not having game time. That excuse we need to discuss
HR should shut his big mouth now, what we expect in Rwanda is a win anything short of that many of us won’t accept. FAZ could you please buy HR a ticket from Rwanda to France or where ever he wishes if we fail to make to AFCON2010
Another bad weekend, Liverpool lost and Zambia got wired by those kwere kweres. But in
I have now decided to use my real name from now onwards. These things have copyrighted you know, but dont call me Kolokmbwa when we meet, i will punch your nose !
In all fairness, they were better, sharper in front of goal – basically clinical. The goals they scored were good and well worked out. They showed us what we have been lacking upfront. We have to ask ourselves questions about our srike force which hardly threatened. Our defence was exposed ( if I am not mistaken Dennis Banda was substituted for Thomas Nyirenda ) but it really didn’t change things much. Is that Jacob Banda the best local goal keeper ? Is he better than Davy Kaumbwa ? I only fault Renard on two things – team selection and tactics. Why did he leave kennedy Mudenda of Power ? the boy would have provided more attacking options which were lacking. Why do we play with one striker upfront even when we are down ? I also wondered about the logic of substituting Sunzu for hachipuka when we were chasing the game. I Thought attacking options would be introduced in such circumstances.
Anyway, the positives are the revelations of Sunzu, that left back wearing jersey 4, that Luka phiri wearing 17 and of course Allan Mukuka. We live to fight another day
To say the truth, Enock Sakala is very slow and kind of lazy guy. His shooting is poor. For sure I believe why HR said the guy is not national team material. Felix inzu is even better in my view but I dont know why HR was starting Enock. I believe we have a long way to go. Because even the coach is inexperienced. How do you expect to perform with a trainee coach?
Playing the long ball over the midfield to try and get Enoch in the box was a tactic that failed throuout the 1st half. Reasons are that Enoch is not strong on the ball and even with his height is not a ball winner. How did the coach continue with this failed tactic into the second half, I’ll tell you, his inexperience told him to.
Sunzu did not come to the party but was held onto until so late in the game and yet we had Kebby on the bench, again inexperience speaking volumes for itself. Fine we changed the system and started with the short passing game that saw us get 3 or four shots on target but the Zim goalkeeper came to the party. Our head coach should be an assistant and not head coach. The insistance on playing Jimmy was just shocking, after his performance in the Mozambique game he should ave been put back on a bus to lusaka and not played again in the final. I bet if we were to record his percentage of accuracy on passing he would be in the negatives, not a single cross and one attempted overlap that also resulted in nothing. Luka Lungu did not imprese me until this game, he was one of our better players on the day. Allan kept getting lost for spells at a time in the game. The Zimbaweans kept takin him down and I think this caused him to somewhat freeze. We were the best team at the tournament until this game. The Zimbabwean coach took the time to read our game plan from the Mozambique game and I guess even to his surprise we came into the final with the exact game plane and not a single change to the line-up I think that was a gift to the Zim coach. There a lot of places and directions to point fingers for our failure to win these small tournaments these days but i will only point out that our tactics on the day were just not well worked out and thought through and this responsibility lies squarely on the coach.
@Kolokombwa Unveiled – Winza Sichali
Kolokobwa Unveiled . That’s the thing i was saying why do we play with one striker when you down and all in all games. When we had two strikers start a game against Namibia just check the attempts we had at goal in the first half and how many saves their keeper had to make? We were a threat.
Joel Santana the former Bafana Bafana coach was very defensive, one game he played three defensive midfielders plus the four defenders at the back in fact most of his games he used to play two defensive midfielders. Tactics like these cost him his job. HR is defensive minded no wander we have scored less goals during the World Cup qualifiers.
ati trainee coach, really interesting. Lets wait for Nov, 14 when we fail to go to AFCON, then we’ll realise that Kalu and HR are both Ngong’as!!!
And you know thats the problem with us, we only make decisions when we have hit rock bottom. When this guy drives us so deep into the ground thats when we will let him go and start trying again to climb out.
HR has no tactical knowledge about football. He is very defensive in his formations, how he plays with two defensive mids is out of this world. I would understand if we were playing Spain or Brazil. What happened to the 4-4-2 system. We have very good wingers in kalaba, Allan Mukuka, Felix katongo, Clifford Mulenga. Why he abolished the 4-4-2 system katwishi.
We will not see our players playing in England or Europe when our team is being thrashed ma 2-0, 3-1 and scoring ma 1 gaol.
Sibs, I said and I will repeat, HR is both right and wrong in what he says:
People are now saying Mudenda! We cried for Henry Banda, while he played at Cosafa. We cried for Enock Sakala, HR has been proved right. We have cried for Sinks, Fwayo, Mayuka, Singuluma, Mbesuma, Chamanga, all these players have been tested with no positive results. Now we are saying Felix Sunzu, I am sure HR has a good reason for not playing him all the time. Jacob Banda was playing in Africa with Zesco, I guess he is the best gamble locally.
Stoppilla Sunzu though gud lacks match alertness
I agree with you on crying for players, I dont think it is the players that was the core of the problem, I believe it was tactics or lack of . We should have had a diferent game plan aganist Zimbabwe and two or three changes in the line-up. It was not the players it was the tactics that cost us the trophy.
Kwena natupwa ! Getting wired by Zim like that ! Big Steve, i agree that we cant blame the players but one can also sypathise with Renard. In terms of strikers, thats the best we have locally. Enock Sakala just came out of the Champions league and Sunzu has just come from a professional stint. Can we do any better. The leading scorer is congolese. Look at the next highest scores, around 11 goals if i am not mistaken ! Twalipwa ! Gibby Mbasela and Kenneth Malitoli would both score 27-28 goals in a season each and yet they are playing for the same club ! Look at where we are now. Mudenda however should have been there. I think Renard owes us an explanation for some of these decisions, tactics, substitutions etc. Has he ever been on a phone in programme ? can Zamfoot convey these questions so that we get the picture of his line of thought ?
Kolokombwa ala taumfwa wa seke shsa sana, nga bu Mike Tyson bwafuma kwi??
@Big Steve from SA
Good points u have come up with. In addition the coach should just resign. He should not wait to be fired. Let him go to Algeria and coach a club i.e. if Algeria qualify for SA2010 otherwise he will not be welcome. HR kabiwe fye mune chapwa
kabiye
The 4-3-3 formation is for teams like Barcelona and Brazil. Barcelona and Brazil have always played this system because of the kind or rather type of players they have/had. Look at Barcelona now they have Messi, Zlatan and Henry in front, look at their midfield and defence. Infact they play 3-4-3 when attaching and 4-3-3 when defending. They have the right players for the system. HR should look at the players he has got before choosing a system, but ka guy kaliba sana uku yumfwa. Go back to France and see which club will give butter and bread none at all. Why should our football suffer because of HR and FAZ, just why. 4-3-3 HR ubu kopo
4-3-3 just resign
whats the measure for failure in Zed terms kansi?? The whole point of an expatriate coach is the expectation of better results than a local coach so if this expectation is not met what is the expat coach there for??? The same way our locals did not get us to the world cup this chap has done the same. Our locals were even closer than him and our locals won these small tournaments and he has failed to win any of them. What is it that continues to justify this guys stay kansi?? Kalusha’s admin that can say there was no one at fualt after playing students in an international friendly is another joker that needs to leave administartion and management to administrators and managers. Footballers should play fotball and if they have the caling coach football. If Kalu could see nothing wrong with what hapened in England then there are obviously many things that are wrong in football house that his eyesight is not able to focus on. This crop of administrators will get us nowere and the fact that the coach is useless is just a byproduct of the useless leadership at football house. Its even evident in the arrogance of both the administartion and the coach.
Personally, I think HR has been playing to the peanut gallery way too much. Every player the fans request, somehow ends up getting called up. I’m almost beginning to wonder if there is some sort of people telling him who to try out. Lets also understand that we took an experimental team ku COSAFA. Angola sent under 20’s SA sent local young guns and we did the same. It is good that some of the younger upcoming players got a chance to wear the national team jersey and honestly thats what tournaments like COSAFA and CECAFA are for. I like that HR is trying out new players and new formations to try and address the current situation, but he really needs to find a way to motivate the players. We should accept the positives of this tournament, and not really continue to rest our laurels on COSAFA, for Zim ..this is their AFCON since they are not going they had to perform in the only tournament they could. For us, SA, and Angola it was a time to try new things and new players. Now that its done, well back to the real task at hand,… surviving in Kigali. HR needs to stop playing to the crowd, he should stick to his guns..like he did on the Tana situation. He has tried everyone we have asked for…now he needs to pick who he is going to keep. I agree with Gametime12 any soccer player should be able to adjust to a 4-3-3. And it worked until the final game so you can’t blame the coach for sticking with it. Unless Zambia can pay Sven Erikson the sort of money required, I suggest we hunker down and play a multitude of friendlies before AFCON (if we qualify) also bane can’t we play a friendly before Rwanda (ask Malawi or Kenya..they have a crunch match also)
@Big Steve from SA
Well said mudala. Maybe failure to qualify for AFCON will be the wake up call required. Though I think if we do qualify for AFCON we could do better than most expect. I say tis because having a dismal qualifying campaign might work in our favour in terms of being underestimated by our opposition.
Am enjoying this as when i say players should see playing for Zambia as a privelege and not a right people think i just talk. Naifwe fwema fans sometimes are content with failure-i was amazed to hear people talking about some players stabilising the team after we lost at home to the same team that we drew with away at the dreaded Cairo Stadium.
Enoch Sakala is the plangest pulanga and to have such unskilled players as pointman in a final says a lot. Look at the Zimbabwean ex-basketballer target-man na skill akwete. Honestly guys nangu twalipwa noti every Jim and Jack should play ku squad. Even Peter Chilemena (by the way Ba Spaks got him a scholarship in the USA) is better than Enoch Sakala as even step (emakapulaya Ba Fred Mwila balekana abaso ati iyi structure teyabola). Whether he scored for ZESCO or not, i wouldn’t play him in any team i would coach.
Bailiffs swept FAZ House last week. That’s why i said Presidential fundraising ilya wasn’t long-term (remember Hope Foundation, MMCI etc things that people only support just because the President is involved). If at all all was well and good, these so called Corporates should make Chipolopolo self-sustaining as is the case kuno ku Tanzania where NMB Bank(Sponsored by Rabobank like ZANACO) and Serengeti Breweries sponsor the National Team while Vodacom (can we stop blocking them coming to Zambia so that they sponsor Mighty and Nkana like the do Simba and Yanga in liaison with Serengeti Breweries here).
Last Saturday I witnessed the 5th biggest derby in Africa (1.Al Ahly-Zamalek, 2. Kaiser-Orlando 3. Raja-Wydad 4. Asante Kotoko 5. Simba-Yanga in Tanzania) and Patrick Phiri’s Simba beat Yanga 1-0 to make 10 wins in 10 games, Patrick Phiri has cult hero status here. Met him at a hotel i went to have lunch today and we had a good chat(Phone number +255765302467 incase any of you need to talk to him).
@Uncle Bobs
I have to quote you on this one “(emakapulaya Ba Fred Mwila balekana abaso ati iyi structure teyabola)” this right here separates you from all the yapping from people who never played football in their lives. Some coaches would even send you home just from watching you run, Bwa bola ni bwa bola. All these boys the fans are praising are all wacked out average players, nothing special about any of these players. Yet We expect them to beat Egypt, and the funny thing is every player the fans asked for was given a chance. This has been the case even back in the days. I remember We used to have players like Haile (Rasta) in the national team just because the fans loved him. This has been a one of the root of the problems.