Zambia Voluntary Soccer Fans Association (ZAVOSOFA) says the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) is to blame for Zambia’s 4-1 loss to Ghana in a friendly played in London.
ZAVOSOFA Patron, Pastor Peter Makembo says FAZ should desist from issuing statements that will disturb the morale of the nation but instead put things in order in preparation for the game against Algeria.
Pastor Makembo further said FAZ should apologize to the fans and the republican President Rupiah Banda who was in the fore front organizing finances for FAZ for the London trip to be a success.
He told ZANIS in an interview in Lusaka today that FAZ should concentrate on building the team’s spirit in readiness for the match against Algeria next month adding that pointing fingers will not yield any results.
Pastor Makembo said the fans have not lost hope as the game against Algeria is a must win.[quote]
Meanwhile, Association of National Team Supporters (ANTS) has since asked FAZ president Kalusha Bwalya to step down.
ANTS Secretary General Bob Kayukwa said Bwalya should resign on moral grounds because he has practically failed to run the affairs of football as FAZ President.
Kayukwa accused Bwalya of taking advantage of soccer fans in the country adding that there are a lot of other soccer legends in the country that can run the affairs of soccer when given an opportunity.
Last week, Zambia was forced to field an under strength team against the Ghanaian’s strong side following FAZ’s failure to secure visas for ten foreign based players.
Yesterday, FAZ president Kalusha Bwalya said no individual was at fault in Chipolopolo’s embarrassing outing to London for an international friendly against Ghana on August 12.
“We have thoroughly gone through the processes and circumstances leading up to the game in London and have unanimously concluded that no individual was at fault and that no effort was spared by the secretariat and team management in rounding up the players,” he said.
Bwalya said everything possible to meet the expectations of the Zambian people in the London game were done.
“We tried everything humanly possible to meet the expectations of our people by fielding a formidable side and this is evidenced in the official team list we sent to the organisers in London,” he said.
Did you honestly think you could beat Ghana?
How can the whole Country allow a FAZ president to reside in SA??? president by remote!!!! I should apply for senior public position in Zed and still leave pa Jozi!!!
I dont think our National Team has had enough preparations to face Algeria? I would love our boys to beat Algeria at their home turf. But realistically writing, it will be an uphill batlle from which i dont honestly see Zambia coming victorious. There will be another round of talk again. Thats what we always do is in it so?
What is so special with Kalu?His days are way back gone
This is just a worst of time.
Yeah Brother Kalu, Zambians are not grateful people, you work so hard and organise a friendly with Ghana in London, all you get is fire him. Did you not manage to improvise and make a national team? Who could have done better than what you did especially as you had to make sure your new wife got to watch Chipolopolo in action enroute to your honeymoon?
You managed to show us that no one individual can make a team, there are 1m Zambians who can play footie!!!
When the Chess Fed. asks for pittance to send a team of five, there is no money!
When FAZ asks for hundreds of miilions to send no team at all, there’s money!
Grand Master Amon Simutowe(Zambezi shark) had to pay from his own resources to attend the Libya tourney and nobody is even talking about refunding him. Great Kalu shud step down before we lose respect. We love you GK, but we love our bola even more. God bless America …. sorry Zambia!
Kalusha shut up your month. Dont you realise that each time you open your mouth you are annoying us even further. Look at how much tax payer money was released towards this fluck? Learn to say sorry.
Of course no one individual at FAZ iz to blame for the London fiasco becauze no one did anything at all! And pleaze take note; the issue here iz not about lozing the game to Ghana, but the (dis)orgnization of the whole trip.
If Kalusha Bwalya is saying they did their best, then their best is not enough as it ended in a fiasco
Ba yaba imwe? you dont even pay tax what are you talking about. you are the one who is supposed to be quiet
Its wrong for one to say Zambians are not being grateful to Kalu. Everyone knows his great contributions to soccer development but he cannot hold the whole nation hostage by not running the affairs of FAZ to greater standards. The guy has no administrative capability. Since he took FAZ Leadership, there has bin alot of uncoordinated planning it has all bin trial and error. Meantime GRZ is bin pumping Billions of ZMK in FAZ and we are not going any where. Soccer is a game of emotions to both the fan and player. We are not asking for 10/10 results at least 8/10 not wat is obtaining 3/10. Algeria is busy with its preparations as FAZ there is nothing serious really happening. Kalu should be brave enough and give FAZ Presidency. Its not personal pride but national pride. Let him do other things
If what happened in London is ‘what was humanly possible,’ then Kalusha does not know what competent human beings can do. I fear for the future of football in Zambia.
I also don’t understand how Zambians can allow a FAZ president to reside abroad. it just doesn’t make sense at all. this is a very important position and we need someone in an office monday to friday.
ba Kalu you’ve done our country proud but i firmly believe that you should resign on moral grounds. you spend more time analysing soccer on Dstv that the time you should be offering solutions in Zed.
PORNSTAR # 11. No attacks, is that the only contribution a normal person can come up with. You are a porn for sure.
Kalusha should accept that he is incompetent. He was great on the field playing, but not as an administrator. I am sick and tired of these chaps who think they are supermen just because of some achievement in the past. Knowing Sepp Blatter should not be a ticket to nonsense and free reign for Kalusha to do as he pleases. We need to start forcing these chaps to do what WE WANT!!
You will never be a leader. Kalu you have failed all the aspects of football administration. Step down, sick and tired of your lies not forgetting satellite administration.
It seems mediocrity is the new normal in Zambia.
DEAR MR FAZ PRESIDENT.
THE SHAME OF LOSING 4-1 IN LONDON IS NOT ON THE ZAMBIAN SOCCER TEAM; ITS ON YOU! IN MY COUNTRY THE BULL OF ‘LEARNING FROM THE OCCASION IS TIRED LINE GOOD FOR POLITICIANS ONLY. KALU, LISTEN MAN ZAMBIANS DONT LEARN FROM MISTAKES, COZ WE HAVE MADE ONE TOO MANY BEFORE!
ONE ENGLISH WORD DESCRIBING CURRENT FAZ IN AN INEPT INSTITUTION. IF YOU FOLKS CANT ACCEPT FAILURE ( YOUR SENTENCE: WE DID EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER) THEN WHAT DO U CALL A 4-1 BASH> SUCCESS?????WE THOUGHT YOUR EXPOSURE WOULD OPEN YA MIND A BIT. NOW WE UNDERSTAND WHY PPL SAY YOU SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COLLEGE EVEN FOR ONE WEEK! HEY KALU I HAVENT FORGOTTEN THE DAYS YOUR WORKED HARD FOR ZAMBIA, THE GOALS YOU SCOARED SINGLE HANDEDLY, THE COMMITMENT ON YOUR FACE IN YOUR HEART AND LEGS. BUT U HAVNT DONE MUCH…
Having watched our super tired boys being humbled by an average Ghana team made me shed tears at our mediocre ledearship at FAZ.Kulusha,Munaile,Chilemena and Co. must vacate football house and instead form an old soccer players Association.
Zwaaa Meen!!
Since the early nineties I stopped passionately following Zambian football. Just work hard enjoy your lives and watch this great comedy called Zambian football.
Kalu do not push your luck too far. We need proper administrators to run FAZ and not you chancers mascquerading as celebrities.
Performance on the field is directly linked to the boardroom. If we think our young players are going to perform miracles on the field when our FAZ boardroom lack direction, a sense of duty, enthusiasim, and at best dysfunctional, then WE CAN KEEP DREAMING. Any game/match starts way before the ref even blows the first whistle—-ORGANISATION, STRATAGY, PLANNING, PSYCHOLOGICAL & PHYSICAL PREPARATION OF PLAYERS, extra. All these things require time, leadership, and vission from the entire FAZ organization. Improvization has never lifted football standards anywhere on planet earth!!!
KALU we all thought with your exposure things were going to change for the better at FAZ. What happened, ba mudala??!!
Kalu has terribly failed. Kalu should know that when you plan something and it doen’t to plan then you have not succeded, you have failed. Something,somewhere was not done accordingly. For Kalu to start to defend his committe shows that these guys can not learn from thier mistakes and should not lead FAZ.
KAlu is way over his head may the fool plz step dwn!
Heey ….guys let Great Kalu enjoy the musungu wife…….I wonder why he likes basungus??????
Please ba kalu listen to people, you cannot serv two masters at one time, Zambians and DSTV. The end will be disastrous, better stand down now! Zambia does not need a psuedo celebrity to run our football.
heheh but kalu chipuba ayi ni lol
If I were Kalusha, I would apologise and the resign. Just as people are supporting Chiluba, Clubs were all crazy at having Kalu as FAZ President at the expense of experience and maturity of Ted Mulonga. Kalu has no soccer adminstration background. On the contrary Ted was GM for the BoZ Ndola and then DG at the Tender Board. While in Ndola he was Ndola United Chairman. That time Utd was a team to reckon with. Ted could have lifted soccer in Zambia had it not been politically interfered with especially by one FTJ. In future deligates to the FAZ council must not vote out of emotion but out of logic.
Imwe bafi $$$$$$ just leave Great Kalu alone coz those 10 players wouldnt have made any difference, we would have lost all the same !
You all speak with authority over matters that will not put food in your stomachs, tissue in your toilets and women in your beds. Viva indifference!
Zambians, this tendency of condeming things even when you do not believe is wrong. How many of us really support the development of soccer in our country. Development in terms of both moral and finacial support. How many of us go to the stadiums to watch league games. Its so embarrasing seeing the state of our soccer pitches on TV. Those are the real issue that determine the levels of soccer development in a country. Algeria beat us at home by 2/0. But away it was 1/0. Why, its because the state of the algerian pitch is in far much better condition allowing good play. Let us move away from mediocrity and start supporting the development of this beautiful game.