Herve Renard has talked tough that changes are coming in the 2012 Africa Cup bound team but one department in particular needs serious attention.

The other day I sat down with some Copperbelt-based ex footballers who aired their concern over the state of the Zambia goalkeeping department.

Their concerns were not about Kennedy Mweene but about the quality he lacks in competition from the bench.

In particular, they said, does Kalililo Kakonje still deserve to continue being Zambia’s number two?

Mweene has been peerless since 2005 after replacing Kalililo as number one.

Furthermore, I agree with the guys that the TP Mazembe substitute goalkeeper has been inactive since leaving Amazulu in 2010 and so is it justifiable to keep him on?

If so, is Faz telling us that a foreign-based bench-warming goalkeeper was enough criteria to get you a national team place?

Or don’t we have enough quality at home in Joshua Titima of Power Dynamos or Jacob Banda of Zesco United to measure up to Kalililo’s grade?

7 COMMENTS

Dojo do December 4, 2011 At 8:28 pm

Good point put across…
planzo December 4, 2011 At 8:46 pm

its not faz job.it is the technical team comprising of the coach to decide which goal keeper to take,in this case it means the technical team is not doing its job.fire them including the coach otherwise we are just passagers at the cup of nations.when are we going to be serious?
NACHULA December 4, 2011 At 10:56 pm

NOT A FOOTBALL FUN. CAN’T UNDERSTAND A THING.
Gilberto December 4, 2011 At 11:18 pm

Unfortunately only one goalkeeper can play at a time. What yardstick is the author of this article using to show that KALILILO KAKONJE is not up to scatch? If it is that he sits on the bench at his club then there is no point in even writing the article because great keepers have warmed benches and bidded their time. How many decades did Mwanza warm the benches while Efford Chabala played? He went to an early grave never having upstaged Chabala but he was a great keeper as well. Time fails me to talk about Cuducini at Chelsea and Tottenham….
Jacob December 5, 2011 At 5:42 am

Let the coach do his job and do not make football political. The coach will make the decision who to use because that is his job and we hold him accountable for results.
Wanu Ngwee December 5, 2011 At 7:56 am

I agree that our goal-keeping depart need serious attention, in particular Kennedy Mweene’s big-headedness which has made him so unreliable in recent times. He can spring up an incredible save one moment and commit a very silly blunder the next! He must also be reminded that he does not captain the national team, so he must not behave like the captain of the side. Another worrying thing with our boys is the failure to convert set-pieces, and Kalusha must take the full blame for this, coz he has failed to impart this skill into our boys. Too many corners also go begging. Even my little boy knows that the best way to head the ball into the net is to head it downwards, yet most our strikers head upwards as though they were defending! PLEASE WORK ON THESE WEAKNESSES!!
Flagrante Delicto December 5, 2011 At 9:54 am

This fitness trainer will never cease to amaze me. He together with the technical bench must monitor the performances of all the players at their various clubs. We have alot of talent playing in our local league which can add some competition to the squad. Why should it take ex footballers to remind him which departments need urgent attention when he was employed to address these shortcomings? And he wants a US$100 pin per month. What a joke.