Zanaco winger cum striker Charles Zulu is set to attend trials in France.
The 19 year old is likely to miss out on the CHAN tournament in Rwanda.
Zulu who has been capped by Zambia is expected to leave for France on January 7 and attend trials at French Ligue 2 sides Sochaux and Nantes.
Sochaux has history with Zambian players after Stopilla Sunzu and Nathan Sinkala had a spell there.
Last year, Zulu attended unsuccessful trials in Spain.
o da best young man france is gud 4 african players
Die a little young man. I know you will clinch a deal this time.
good luck young man France is better than going to congo, die a little for your future this time.
I doubt if this boy will make it in france last time he was linked with the move to south African clubs orlando pirates and sundown now france.I just wish him all the best.
when god says yes no one can say no 2016 is the year of rewards he might make it, if he fails this time then he should just try going to Congo,Zimbabwe, Kenya or Gabon because he has failed in Spain, south Africa and now he is going to France.
Kalengo wz paid abt $70 000 as signing fee by AC Leopards n wz offered a monthly salary of $10 000. Who cn turn down such an offer.
FROM ZESCO UTD WEBSITE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
To: All Media Houses
From: Zesco United Football Club
3rd January, 2016
REF: LUSEKELO KAMWAMBI’S OUTBURST
Zesco United would like to express its disappointment in National Team manager Lusekelo Kamwambi’s outburst on the transfer of striker Winston Kalengo to AC Leopards of Congo Brazzaville as reported in today 03rd January,2016 editions of the Sunday Mail and Sunday Times of Zambia.
This is not the first time Kamwambi in his capacity is rushing to the media to condemn Zesco United, last May he accused us of refusing to release players even when he knew we had midweek games to play.
As a club, we do not deal with Kamwambi in any correspondence because there are senior and higher offices that we communicate to at the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ), in this case the issue of Kalengo’s transfer has been discussed with the General Secretary, George Kasengele and the President Kalusha Bwalya who have the knowledge about the transfer and the efforts the club put in to stop Kalengo from traveling.
The two senior FAZ officials have at no time rushed to the media to condemn neither the player nor the club, so to us Kamwambi’s outbursts are baseless and he seems to be talking about a deal he has no or little knowledge about.
The Club did not want to go in details of the Kalengo transfer but since Kamwambi has gone to the press, we will lay down the facts as follows;
Before Kalengo traveled to Congo, he was granted permission to go and negotiate his transfer by the National Team and Zesco United coach George Lwandamina and immediately the deal was finalized the first person he called was the coach.
The head coach then called ZUFC team manager Mabvuto Banda and requested that Kalengo be removed from the CAF list because he had signed a new contract.
Upon signing the one year contract Kalengo was paid about USD 70,000 as signing fee and was offered a salary of about USD 10,000,Kalengo then contacted the ZUFC to formalize his transfer since he had already made a decision to leave the club.
Prior to leaving, ZUFC had engaged Kalengo who had only two months left to his contract to revise his contract and add the following conditions;
-To give him a professional contract like foreigners at the club
-To give him permanent employment at Zesco Limited to sustain his future
Unfortunately both offers were turned down by Kalengo who said he wanted to look at other offers (from Saudi-Arabia which was only for four months and AC Leopards which he settled for) before making a decision, we wish to categorically state that no club from the South-African PSL or anywhere else gave Kalengo any offer
It is quite surprising and disappointing that the National team technical bench led by George Lwandamina can condemn the Kalengo transfer when he travelled with the blessing and permission from the coach, it was in their power not to grant the player permission to travel for negotiations.
We wish to put it on record that as a club we put in our best negotiations with the player but unfortunately AC Leopards beat us to the conditions as the only consolation we had was to offer him permanent employment which he was not ready to take for now.
We hope that these utterances by Kamwambi do not have the blessings of FAZ because they have the capability of bringing the relationship of Zesco United and the Association in disrepute.
Kamwambi should realize that the club has come to the aid of FAZ at short notice because of the cordial relationship, for example Zesco has sacrificed the head coach to be at the National team while paying him his full salary and allowances as per his contract with the club and the use of the team bus and driver to transport visiting teams among other things.
We therefore feel undermined by the National team technical bench through Kamwambi’s utterances who should have just taken few steps to go to the coach’s room to get the full facts of the stated player transfer.
We wish to appeal FAZ to tame Kamwambi’s mouth as he is not the right person to be issuing statements on behalf the Association on matters he doesn’t understand on Zesco United. Kamwambi should learn to consult and get facts before running to the media to be seen as the intelligent one.
It is such people that are dragging the name of FAZ in the mud with their excitement.
We wish to thank the FAZ President Kalusha Bwalya and General secretary George Kasengele for handling the matter professionally and we hope to continue working cordially in the year 2016.
Issued Jointly by
Justin Mumba – Club General Secretary
Katebe C Chengo (Ms) – Club Media Officer
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Ama managers mwamonekela ,ati maybe he never got his cutsome where some how ati that is the way now the cookie crumbles pa zed. this Zesco spokesperson can embrass you ati he is just a some fish us we correspond with Abenaki Kalu and chi Kasengele,so lesekelo have breaks in your mouth Zesco temunobe period,hahahahaha hehehehehe.
Charles I am positive will make it this time. He has improved of late more especially in wings 11 or 7. God will be with him.
This Youngman destroyed Mozambique for Zambia to qualify, he is a gem . We wish him all the best of luck available on earth, coz once developed fully, he can carry Zambia on his shoulders.
Small body and short, not in France, South Africa and Congo yes! France unless he is very skillful to compensate for height and small body.