16 players on Tuesday fly out from Lusaka for Johannesburg for final Zambia training camp ahead of the 2012 Africa Cup.
The team will departure for Johannesburg at 13:00 hour on South African Airways from KK international Airport in Lusaka.
Tuesday’s travelling party will include Jonas Sakuwaha who missed the first two weeks of training camp due to injury.
Sakuwaha confirmed that he was fit and would travel with the team to South Africa.
Swiss-based striker Emmanuel Mayuka of Young Boys also joins the team when it regroups today in Golf View Hotel in Lusaka today ahead of departure tomorrow.
Zambia will be based at the garden Court Milpark and will be training from the Wits University grounds.
Goalkeeper: Kalililo Kakonje (Unattached)
Defenders: Joseph Musonda (Golden Arrows, South Africa), Hichani Himonde, Francis Kasonde (Both TP Mazembe, DR Congo), Nyambe Mulenga (Zesco United),Thomas Nyirenda (Konkola Blades)
Midfielders: Rainford Kalaba (TP Mazembe, DR Congo), Isaac Chansa (Orlando Pirates, South Africa), Felix Katongo, Nathan Sinkala (Both Green Buffaloes), Jonas Sakuwaha (El Merreikh, Sudan), Kampamba Chintu (Bidwest Wits,South Africa)
Strikers: Christoher Katongo (Henan FC, China), Emmanuel Mayuka (Young Boys, Switzerland), Evans Kangwa (Nkana), James Chamanga (Dalian Shide, China)
all the best to the guys.
Players will suffer home sick and tired of kicking the ball, taking One month in camp and one month competing. Most professional players from other countries are still with their respective clubs. the great Didier Grogba, the Toure brothers (Ivory Coast), and many others. Wacibindila wacisiya. :( what’s this rush for Zambia and why camping in SA whenever there is an international match to be played outside the country (Zam) How much spent on hiring those grounds and accomodating players and officers. FAZ is enriching SA :( FAILING to build own stadiums as a result.
This is unbelievable Zambia has one of the most competitive club league in Africa and does not have a training camp for the national team, you always have to outsource everything at great expense, so even our competitors in group will eavesdrop on us!!
FAZ and Kalu are utterly USELESS!!
FAZ would have bought a 10 acre plot/land in the outskirts of Lusaka or Copperbelt when land was cheap and easily built a training camp, this is just like building a 3 star Motel with a modern gym and two football pitches …didn’t Kalu have a free pass at the last World Cup in RSA wasn’t he taking notes…dull chap!!
I read a report on one of the sites that mentioned Zambia as the worst country in Maths and English. I doubted it at first, but after reading the report above, I strongly agree with the report. Its like LT gets its News writers from Grade fives.
We boil at different degrees for sure…
Can’t you be proud that Kalu & his friends organized a different training atmosphere for the boys? This is same as deciding to go and play at TP Mazembe or play at Konkola, who will be more motivated?
#5. Jay Jay -Well said. I still do not understand why at the least a place like BP sports complex with a gym, library , theater , phisiotharpy facilities has not been built for this useless team. The amount of money they spend at Pamodzi thru the years, going to SA is a joke.
you dont just talk please be involved the litle effort you put in might take alot of change to zambia we understand you people in the diasphora get alot of money please help us
*_*_*_South Africa will go down this time*_*_*_
“The team will departure” Wagwaan family………Zambia is a english speaking nation.
It is so surprising and shamful at the same time to camp in south Africa each tym there is an Africa cup. FAZ does not even need to buy land for constructing a training facility.
Government has got some gazzetted land which it can easily give to FA. Imagine a month long preparation in a foreign country.
Those guys wound have done well to set camp here at home, train vigorously in week days and get a weekend to see their families and back on training. Remember, all work and no play makes John a ….. boy.
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Sadly us Zambians always have to outsource everything at great expense imagine if FAZ had a home-based state of the art training facility how much they would have saved..they would use that as business venture for additional revenue streams when the team is not in camp ie; Managers college, conference facilities, weddings etc.
Only when FAZ has enterprising commercially aware savvy individuals at the top are we going to move forward, in the meantime its hand to mouth snacking off tax-payers money.Â