November 25, 2009
Chamanga will be flying with the team.
Zambia coach Herve Renard has had a change of heart over leaving China based James Chamanga out of the Chipolopolo squad that is due to fly out to Kenya tomorrow for the CECAFA tournament that opens this Saturday.
Earlier, Renard had told reporters that he was leaving the player who hit a stunning hat trick against North Korea on Saturday because his club Dalian Haichang needed him back for training on December 2.
The Frenchman had said it would have been pointless to carry Chamanga would have only played the opening game on Saturday and that his place needed to have been taken by someone who would be there for the entire duration of the tournament.
But Zambianfootball.net now understands Renard will name Chamanga in his CECAFA squad and will only release him from Kenya if his club asks for his services.
And Renard will leave the decision to rule Hichani Himoonde out of the trip late.
The Lusaka Dynamos defender who has been on loan at champions Zesco United is with T.P Mazembe who have set up camp in Zimbabwe preparing for the FIFA World Club Championship in Zimbabwe.
Himoonde is negotiating a deal with the Club African Champions.
30 Comments on "Renard u-turns on Chamanga"
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Asilikale on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 7:30 PM
Oh oh thts a gud one ma mould and fear to lose,no prblm carry chamanga for the sake of hammerng kenya who luks stronger in our group of death.
I dnt knw is it impossible to negotiate a deal with chamanga club jst for two weeks, no prblm ryt.
Ok how about one of the yobe bros,i thnk tht wud b better replacement for a 3goal korea hero,wht dou thnk guys.
Mind u,Zimbabwe is also a guest team at CECAFA,wapya again.
Am glad HR nw understand the pain of losng is different with joy that goes with 4 – 1 ululation to c zambians erupt in joyous applauser of a win ahahahahah.
kk11 on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 7:38 PM
Zamfoot, reports indicate that Chamanga’s team does not start pre-season training untill late December hence his availability for the Tournament. So headlining this story as a U-turn by Renard is a tad unfair for the coach and will encourage the Renard bashers to unload n tha man for the upteenth time. This should really be a non story…….
Asilikale on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 7:49 PM
@kk11
Sorry man bt the blog stand.” HR u turn stands”gud 4us an u happy
Positive thinking ..aka Awe on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 7:59 PM
@kk11
I concur with that statement. I don’t think it was Renards choice to not call Chamanga, but it was question really of availability. Atti shani ku Jersey mudala? Hit me up on my email Stillchile(at)hotmail.com next time I’m up there… I’m buying
Seen from afar on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 8:31 PM
It’s good to hear HH will broaden his horizons at TP Mazembe. Hopefully he can still make Cecefa. I hope we will be stronger than Cosafa as i think the quality fielded up north will be higher. Even without the pair, it looks promising if we work hard.
bola pannshi on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 9:00 PM
wuz selling da zambian replica jerseys kansi? last weekend i hd 2 go round lsk n cudnt find find anything n i ended up geting one of those gong’as frm tanzania. shame
Asilikale on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 10:26 PM
@Mr Zambia
hey bakalamba ths is jst grape vine i mean roumor,thts wht is on ground,lets wait for mo news,by the way Mr zambia is it gud or bd cecafa with chamanga
Geogia Russia on Wed, 25th Nov 2009 10:41 PM
Teddy mulonga is new ps 4 sports,intresting apointment. I cant wait 2 c him get to wok.
Kashman on Thu, 26th Nov 2009 8:12 AM
Ba Zamfoot, these Guyz posting Replica Watches nababikapo virus pa site, teti mubafute fye?
Big Steve from SA on Thu, 26th Nov 2009 9:06 AM
Good thing this coach realises that winning is what we want. If we went and played Kenya with no notable goal scorer of note we would have had a mountain to climb to beat them. Good thing he is including one or two pro’s in these smaller tournaments now he will build good coersion and not just see the pro’s four or five days before crucial matches.
Going back to the issue of consistency, Mbesuma scored a brace a couple of days ago and the then very next match doesn’t even make the starting 11. This is why I was not holding my breath when he scored the brace but I stil feel he is worth a call up to the final 23 that will represent in Angola.
dalian china on Fri, 27th Nov 2009 11:11 AM
welcome back to dalian !we need you !
Uncle Bobs on Fri, 27th Nov 2009 2:02 PM
As long as we use amapulanga Enock Sakala and Sunzu Jr (a bit better than Enock) we should forget about winning. Use agile, flexible, multi-dimensional Chamanga and those one dimensional planks for heavens especially that Mashikwe from Zim will be in town. HR shouldn’t have yielded to fans’ plank mentality to call Enock. Next season he wont even be making the bench at ZEGA. Ba Spaks even Rodgers Kola was better than Enock.