Herve Renard’s continues to make headlines in the aftermath of Zambia’s quarterfinal exit at the Africa Cup in Angola.
Renard has stated that he is now eyeing bigger things and in particular is looking at being in the dugout with an African team to this year’s World Cup.
Should we give him our blessing and let him go or should we go on bended knee and ask him to stay?
In the midst of the celebrations, he has also disclosed that he enjoys a lot of support from President Rupiah Banda than some section of FAZ’s executive committee.
Furthermore, news just out in Friday’s back-pages is that Renard is allegedly not in good terms with FAZ vice president Emmanuel Munaile over administrative issues.
Is Renard being divisive or just exercising his newly found freedom of speech after qualifying Zambia to its first Africa Cup quarterfinal finish since 1996.
Hero or misunderstood?
Debate:
Ba Renard has now grown wings, pliz let him know that its the players hardwork which brought the glory not his ‘film star’ looks. I think its time for him to go coz he keeps on bragging of his so called achievements so that Faz can fear and offer him more money. Kalu take the P.E teacher where he came from!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let him go he now has Zambia on his CV i wonder how he was given the job in the first place because i looked at his back ground as a coach. If he wants to go to the world cup he should have made sure that Zambia got there.Stupid chap!
as i said yesterday?? zambia does not pack for anyone! he knows where he puts his underpants his bombasa etc. he knows where we buy tickets from. he knows we have taxis which we can actually call and they come pick u up and take you to the airport! so bane! i think he knows the way to nigeria or the so called “big team” let him go! we dont have money to feed his money hungry soul!
p.s. he can leave his wife if he wants. we are not bothered.
It is quite clear that renard has proved his critics that he wasnot a mere physical trainner than a coach.
Renard is a straight forward man , he was ready for anything from FAZ adminstration.
The man understood the mentality of the likes of munaile.The same munaile almost costed us what we acheived so far at the lastime of africa cup nation by advocating that renard be suspended. look at our splindid performance. Now he is at it again by wanting to frustrate renard want or not right now renard is a hot cake. How many times are we going to change coaches and players for the national team? The man knows why he does not want to change the technical bench. Simple they have been together for sometime and players are used to them. If munaile helped constitute a technical bench does not…
He might be a hero now but will be a zero soon.
Renard is big headed and walking on fractured ground. Please understand that there is nothing that you have achieved in Zambia’s soccer to be proud of!!! The best for Zambia and whoever is supporting him if they are indeed serious and want to see Zambian soccer to greater heigths is to let THE DREAMER – Mr.Herve Renard leave and go elsewhere!!! He is dull and unteachable!!! Greatest weakness is reading the matches and utilising the available and abundant talents at his disposal!!!! Please let a local coach take up the job and pay him exactly the same package as the current bogius coach Renard is getting and watch the results. Remember to also equip him with the Toyota raider and just watch the perfomance of our Chipolopolo. No serious team can hire Renard. Atleast Shehata is worth it!!!!
This guy should just go. He was obviously luck our boys got to the quarter finals. We have talent in Zambia. This guy has an inflated ego. He should read Zambia’s great soccer history and he’ll know he was very lucky to have landed the job. I wonder how he got it.
‘Mulekenifye aleya’ kaili he met his target – quarter final…what a sorry coach.
To call a quarter-final qualification ” a great achievement” is a very big insult to the socer-loving Zambianz! Even if this haz come after 14 yearz, the fact still remainz that we have done alot better than that before and not once. HR should leave Prezident RB out of this and must be made aware that FAZ iz not just Kalu. Before we were eliminated from the AFCON, I said HR should be fired whether we won the cup or not, and I have not shifted from that pozition. Piece of advice to HR pliz humble yourslf wherever you go if you must achieve your ambition.
The Frenchman like any other person is proud of his achievement with Chipolopolo Boys.Looking at his CV at the time he came, it gotten richer.The question of whether we let him go or not does not make sense. Who earth would like to be associated with failure. Let us not practice PhD Zambian mentality.
whats this fussy about HR! we are behaving as though he is a very good caoch. what has he achieved for God’s sake! last 16 in AFCON. this guy made us qualify on the poorest record ever as a nation. sorry but HR has to go and let him train that big country. am fed up with this HT story.
I wonder why we are so excited about qualifying to thw quarter finals on 4 points. We were just lucky that the other teams had draws. In 2008 we also had 4 points from 1 win over Sudan and 1 draw with Egypt and 1 loss to Cameroon. This time we had 1 win over Gabon, 1 draw with Tunisia and 1 loss to Cameroon. We did not qualify to the next round because the other teams did better. Therefore we can not say the coach is better with an identical record and a much worse qualification record where we only managed 2 goals in four matches. We should all have noticed that the coach had his own ambition to safeguard and the team’s doing well was to help his CV and not the progress of the team and country. Now that he has got what he wanted he wants to make noise! What has he won since we got him?
We have fallen to teams like Zanzibar under his watch and failed to beat Swaziland twice save for the contested penalty in Chililabombwe. Zambian soccer is no better now than it was before he came. He needs us more than we need him were the words from the Ghana Football Association when we employed him. In my opinion, he has not proved anything. Only coaches who took us to finals and 3rd place can claim to have proved something.
guyz you just like critcizing and yet renad did his best.the man found a team which was not peforming for the past years.he tried to make the team a team and all that you see is mistakes.with the current national team even if you bring Acapello to coach it,you would do the same because this team needs time to be belt to a national team level you can be proud of.renad keep on dreaming as that is your destine.
Most of you lads have one thing in common. That is Zambia at heart!! Honestly, if you all looked at the infrastructure and also the mediocre people such as Kalu running FAZ, i don’t think Zambia will do any good in football. For Renard to pick what is available and make an appearance at the quarter final stage of the CAF africa cup is a great deed. We should give him credit, regardless. We should infact be able to negotiate a deal with him, keep him and altogether support him. He is not using Zambia to get anywhere … this is life! Remember, even you lads are living in diaspora and improving your lives and resumes. Try doing that in Zambia!!! Live Renard and instead get the Kalu’s and Munaile’s out of FAZ. This way Zambian soccer will show at levels such as the World Cup.
if there is anyone with an over inflated egos here its you zambians. what footballing history is there to talk about in zambia? somebody help me out here!! true we have produced and continue to produce underachieving great footballers. to my mind this is not the same as being a great footballing nation.
get a life!! nonsense!!!!!
THIS CHAP U CAL LENARD IS JUST A SIMPLE I*D*I*O*T IN MIDST OF SHALLOW MINDED, POOR DESPERATE ZAMBIANS WHO FAIL TO READ BETWEEN LINES. HE’S NOT EVEN A WORLD CLASS COACH. IF HE IS GOOD ENOUGH HE WOULD HAVE WON COSAFA CUP WHICH OUR OWN PATRICK PHIRI WON AGAINST ANGOLA. WHY SHUD ZAMBIANS KNEW DOWN TO LICK THIS ILL TREATED CHAPS SHOES WHEN IT IS HIM WHO WAS LUCK TO HAVE THAT CONTRACT?? WHICH OTHER TEAM DID HE COACH TO SAY HE WON TROPHIES???? HE WAS GIVEN A CHANCE IN ZED TO DO EXPERIMENT BECAUSE ALL WAS ARRANGED BY KALUSHA WHO IS ALSO A PIECE OF S*H*I*T IN FAZ! THIS CHI LENARD IS F*U*C*k*E*D UP. LET HIM GO AND HE WILL BE SUCKED WHERE IS GOIN COZ IT IS ONLY IN ZED WHERE HE CAN PRETEND TO BE A COACH. I GIVE CREDIT TO PLAYERS AND NOT THIS CHI FRENCH CHAKOLWA..
LET HIM GO, WHY ARE YOU BEGGIN HIM AS IF HE WAS COACHIN FOR FREE AFTER ALL HE WAS JUST LUCK TO DO EXPERIMENT IN OUR COUNTRY. I WOULD RATHER GO FOR MAZAMBIQUE COACH. HE WAS SMART AND HE KNOWS WAT IT MEANS TO BE A COACH.
EVERY 1 SAW THIS CHI LENARD THAT HE IS BLANK, HE HAS NO IDEA WHEN THE TEAM CANT FIRE. HIS SUBSTITUTIONS WERE QUESTIONABLE. VERY DULL… HE JUST WANT MONEY. HE HAS BEEN PROMISED MORE MONEY COZ THEY THOT HE IS GOOD AND YET NOT. IT IS THE PLAYERS WHO ARE GOOD AND GIVEN A ZAMBIAN COACH HE WHOULD HAV DONE MUCH BETTER GIVEN THE QUALITY OF PLAYERS AT TH MOMENT. FUSEKI…….CHI LENARD. GO ..GO…GO WE DONT NEED U LITTLE EMPTY HEAD. U ARE PRETENDIN TO BE A COACH. GO AND BE SUCKED IN TWO MATCHES..
Renard should know that there have been coaches who have taken Zambia as far as semi-finals, even as far as finals. Also in 1994 we were just one goal away from the 1994 USA orld cup. He should not be that big-headed for nothing. What is a 1/4 final after all? Is he the one who identified those players in the squad? No!!! They have been there even before he came:felix, Chris, Rainford, Musonda, Mweene, Mulenga,Chamanga, Chansa, Kampamba, and fomer under 20 boys like Njobvu, mayuka, Sunzu were all identified by the likes of Kalusha, Patrick Phiri, etc So The Chap has just exploited what was there before.
Just to add one more thing, if he thinks he can coach Nigeria or camerron, he will be trashed within the first month of his job. Zambians were just patient and tolerant with him looking at that bad qualifying record. We were just luck to get to angola after all, poor Rwanda could have even gone ahead of us. And why is the President begging for this useless coach who who just lucky to get Zambia to the 1/4 final? I mean we just sneaked through the back door to the 1/4 final! Gabon almost equalized. People we wee just luck!!!! It is not the goo coaching that got us to the 1/4 final. Please, Please ,Please President Banda let this chap go
Renard did a good job at the CAN but he is over-rating himself too much. He is just destroying what he has just built. Although I am not Emmanuel Munaile’s ally, on this one Renard is going overboard. He wants to take us for granted. We have had better coaches before. If he is tired, let him pack his bags, we are not stranded at all.
Let him leave, he is not worthy and his recent interviews have been very unprofessional. This man has become a joke and he is not bigger than Zambia. Allez!
u can just go H Renard. we are tired of your comments about leaving. God will replace u with sum 1.
Pack and go with your man Kalu
To hell with RH. Qualified? What qualification? I am shoecked that Zambians tend to celebrate mediocrity!:o