Another recorded tumbled for Zambia as their fine run in the Cecafa Cup came to a spectacular end when little Zanzibar claimed the scalp of one of the big tournament favorites.
Zanzibar sneaked into their quarterfinal match-up with Zambia as one of two best third placed sides to beat Herve Renard’s side 4-3 on post-match penalties in Nairobi today after a scoreless draw.
Zambia on the other hand were hitherto today’s match on a roll with three successive wins and without a goal conceded after topping Group A on a maximum nine points.
Thomas Nyirenda, Luka Lungu and Kennedy Chola all found the target from the spot but defenders Charles Siyingwa and Captain Dennis Banda both fluffed their penalties to see Zambia out of the Cecafa Cup.
Zanzibar have lost all five of their previous meetings against Zambia prior to today’s historic win over the 2006 Cecafa Cup winners.
The national team is finished. I never knew that the tiny island of Zanzibar had a football team that could even give our team a beating. No wonder the FAZ president has turned into a street fighter. The circus maximus rolls on.
And we will hear some people singing: but they played well, but they played well. No matter how much we praise them, the fact is they are coming back home!!
Despite of winning three matches, Zambia coach entered the compitetion without hope of lifting the trophy. How can you expect the players to win the compitetion when their master had no hope???
Be careful about the coaching guys what they say to foreign journalists differs greatly to what they say to Zambian journalists >>> protecting their jobs while betraying the hope of nation. CAN is just one month you will see same results.
This coach must go, we must not fear anything by sacking him. It will be a disgrace to go to the AFCN with this type of coach. it is nenver too late but i am afraid to say he is a very useless manager.
The coach can have a game plan but its the players to execute it. There is no football in our country , thats where the problem is. Our league is very low – poor standards. As much as the coach is to blame the players are as well.
Whats new? …LOL…
It is high time Zambia withdrew from all international outings to regroup. Until these boys and their maFAZi administrators become serious about their assignments, we should have no national team.
# 7 you are absolutely right, the team should stay at home to regroup itself for a long time. there should not be any international games any more because you the more you lose the more the embarrasemnet is to the country. pliz try and regroup yourselves for atleast four years.
Yaba! What is Mr. Liwewe’s take on this one? Personally, I am lost of words.
This team is foolish….don’t blame the coach just yet. Look at ba Kalu with his experience couldn’t help to redeem Zambia from its slumber when he was in charge as coach. I think things have gotten out of hand to such an extent that even little Zanzibar can beat us…really??? Uyu musebanya and ba Kalu shoud all but forget to run footbal in Zambia, instead he should concentrate on his wife and children. Let somebody else with the knowledge and expertise of football run this FAZ, stop dwelling on someone’s past glory. Let’s do what Ghanians did…go back to the drawing board and come back with force. Otherwise minnows like (Zanzibar) will contune to embarras our chipolopolo boys…they deserve better. They need to be well looked after. Do they have their own bus now…I wonder?…
Zambia looses to Zanzibar, a province in Tanzania.
I hope those who thought that Kalusha was a failure as FAZ president are very disappointed now. This clearly shows that Kalusha Bwalya is a very good administrator. For Zambia to be beaten by Zanzibar is a very good sign that Zambian football is forever improving. I hope that we can give Kalusha another term of office so that things can even get better. Well done Kalusha. We should have gotten rid of Teddy Mulonga a long time ago. Probably by now Kalusha would have brought us the World cup.
We are very lucky because by the time we will be playing at the AFCON in Angola, Kalu will be behind the bars and wont influence selection of players.
VIVA KALUSHA. KALUSHA FOREVER!!!!!
Kalusha is slapping people without reason. Zanzibar?? When has Zambia lost to Zanzibar? Kwatha manje! No football in Zambia. Instead of Chipolopolo, the team is firing Blanks. What’s the word which is an opposite to bullets?
this is unacceptable…total shame really…
Teddy Mulonga was the greatest FAZ Chief, not this small thug called Kalu. Zambian football is finished, even the so called foreign coach is nothing, because he cannot see the weaknesses in his team or is just the money he is able to see?
Teddy Mulonga was the greatest FAZ Chief, not this small thug called Kalu. Zambian football is finished, even the so called foreign coach is nothing, because he cannot see the weaknesses in his team or is just the money he is able to see? Kalu is not the coach, granted, but is he the FA President and like Rupiah should be ready to take the blame.
I don’t totally blame the coach because that’s the material that he has to work with. I can’t expect him to perform wonders. Abaiche ba fi color makula period. I think FAZ needs to be disolved completely. Hanif Adams could have done a far better Job as he has at least some experience in running football affairs. Politics in Zed has taken so much toll on the local population that I would not be suprised to see Kalu reside at plot 1.
silly bloggers. negative unhelpful and bitter. give solutions you pathetic bunch of cyber cadres
We no longer need an expartriate coach. Nigerians are going to their world cup with their own native coach. But us why do we still depend on so called bazungu. I think Patrick Phiri could do better than Renerd.
Zambia looses to Zanzibar!!! Akapondo’s sanctuary
Let this Kalusha’s brother in law called RENA start off for france straight from were he is.let him not touch the soils of zambia.
Kalusha could you please leave the running of football to people who are ready to listen and be advised.
My dear you have only managed to marry white wive YES in this game you have beaten us 20-0 but not in the game of managing zambian soccer.kindly let those with small names run football in zambia unlike you who is BIG HEADED for NOTHING.YOU HAVE FAILED DEAR>YOU CAN TRY TO DO SOMETHING ELSE AND NOT SOCCER, you are not a good coach and not an administrator awe bane namufilwa.katusheni ku South maybe try to be only a commentator of soccer on supper sport channels.
Good luck in your next potifolio.
I nver new zanzibar had a national soccer team until cecafa
Iwe chi # 17, supporter wa ba Manchester U nwa ited, the solution has been given by # 7.
Iwe chi # 17, supporter wa ba Manichester U nwa ited, the solution has been given by # 7.
much as i always blame players I think the coach should go now maybe we need a coach with more juju than the frenchman can ever have. its too embbarrassing
We had agood coach in the name of patrick phiri but ka chi colour ka kalu fired him for this good for nothing expertriate
For some time now, Zambia national team has been loosing to a many unskillful national teams such Lesotho etc …..but alas and despite massive financial support, things have even worsened as demonstrated by our national team which is now loosing to provincial teams in the name of Zanzibar….I wonder who shall beat the Chipolopolo national team next…..very shameful
For some time now, Zambia national team has been loosing to a many unskillful national teams such Lesotho etc …..but alas and despite massive financial support, things have even worsened as demonstrated by our national team which is now loosing to provincial teams in the name of Zanzibar….I wonder who shall beat the Chipolopolo boys next…..very shameful
wats new!!! Where is the 6-0 YOU WERE EXCITED ABOUT OVER UNKNOWN COUNTRY OR WATEVA THE CALL THEM???
Shame on Zambia,too much shake shake
We need to continue support our team as loosing is part of the game. Dont loose hope guys, we have more tough games ahead os us.
Whatever goes round comes round. in as much as we complain and say all sort of things against our national team and the soccer administrators, we should try and look at things in a big picture. Zambia’s failure in soccer is just a snippet of many things which are not going well in our country. At least in soccer, the scores are there for everyone to see but in terms of other national development objectives, we have f**ck*d up politicians who keep on defending the poor state of affairs shamelessly even when the country and its citizens are getting poorer each and every day. Please let the Chipolopolo boys show the general citizenrly displeasure by loosing each and every game. Can’t wait for more of that during the AFCON in Angloa
Zambia’s demise in football is closely intertwined with the break-up of ZCCM and the so-called
‘total liberalisation’ of the ecomomy. When everything is left to the whims of ‘investors’ and local
aspiring capitalists, the state, and its ‘concern’ for grassroots sports, whithers away. Having a
planned and supported reservour of sports talent is not the same as merely pouring money into
a soccer trip to a tournament. With this chosen socio-economic system of unabashed wealth for a few and abject poverty for many, Zambia’s embarrassments in sporting sojourns will only get worse.