The Zambia national team has regrouped and commenced training for the 2017 Gabon Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Congo Brazaville to be played this month.
The team which is camped in Ndola had 23 local players training on Monday as the team geared up for the two must win encounters against the group E leaders who are tied on 4 points with the Chipolopolo after the second round of games.
The foreign based players will join camp starting next week.
Zambia host Congo on Wednesday 23rd March at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium before the two teams lock horns in Congo on Sunday 27th March, 2016.
The local players called to the Chipolopolo camp are:
Goalkeepers: Jacob Banda (Zesco United), Racha Kola (Zanaco), Lawrence Mulenga (Kabwe Warriors).
Defenders: Dauti Musekwa (Zesco), Stephen Kabamba, Adrian Chama (both from Green Buffaloes), Donashano Malama (Nkana), George Chilufya (Zanaco), Boyd Mkandawire (Napsa Stars)
Midfielders: Buchizya Mfune, Jackson Chirwa (both from Buffaloes), Solomon Sakala (Warriors) Benson Sakala (Power Dynamos), Mwelwa Mwape , Clatous Chama (both from Zesco), Spencer Sautu, Mwila Phiri (both from Green Eagles), Charles Zulu, Salulani Phiri, Isaac Chansa (all from Zanaco).
Strikers: Christopher Katongo (Buffaloes), Adamson Mulao (Eagles), Conlyde Luchanga and Patson Daka (both from Power).
Thanks for information any permutations on which players are likely to be dropped….
Chipolopolo all the way. We need tough friendly games to prepare the team please!!!. We must beat all our opponents home and away and finish on top of our group.
Head to head stats… Zambia has won 3 , drew 2 and lost once.Their new coach wants to play with an air tight defence when they come to Ndola hoping to finish the job in Brazzaville.
good Boyd is back in team. I think he better than Kabamba. #3 naishupa fye pa Zambia. Just Donoshano Ku 3.
I think Isaac Chansa hasn’t been in form as we saw ku CHAN. To me he should pave way for Singuluma…
That mulao is raw.shuld b dropped (likula)
Singuluma can’t play the role that Chansa plays, he may be out of form but we still need his experience as don’t have many players like him at the moment.
Mulao disappointed me at CHAN……Guinea game!
Mayuka is a big star in Egypt already. He is being worshipped like a god on social media. Why is is lwandimina favoring two failures patson daka and this Adamson. Those 2 embarrassed us at the chan. Mayuka must be called back. Lwandimina cost us 3 points when we failed to beat bissau at home when he played patson daka. I’m going to protest till he does the right thing.
Charly musonda junior has missed the big chance of captaining zambia one day and being crowned African footballer of the year. Winning afcon and possibly going to the world cup. Just like zambia gave Herve Renard a platform to be famous zambia would have done the same for charly. But the musonda’s have failed to reason. Good luck trying to displace eden hazard and Kevin de bryne in that Belgian team. I hope he doesn’t end up a frustrated bench warmer and regret the opportunity which was presented to him.
Ba JHN< WHO IS Lying, someone says "We followed procedure" and other says, neither I, nor the player has been communicated to. We just saw it on facebook"
If both are telling the truth, would I be right to say that FAZ calls players via facebook?
Before we talk about chances missed, let us clear this. What is the truth on this matter?
By following procedure does Lwandamina mean, "I consulted with the officials at FAZ and they gave me the "go ahead" to call Charly Musonda via facebook." Is that how all the players have been called?
Lets be serious.
I understand the frustrations of the father. How can you work on "speculation" If he comes, he might just find himself on a plane back to Spain since "nothing official' was granted, using his own money. All in the name of patriotism.
Patson Daka again…. do we hv 2 march 2 bola house 2 get rid of him. He’s had so many call ups but with nothin 2 write home about. Drop him so tht he pulls up his socks like wht mbesuma did. Call players based on form not history.#jst gonna leave it rite here.
Why always talking about de so kod musondazez family as if we don’t hve gud enough players in de country li.
John the comedian. You really think the musonda kid needs zambian before he can flourish….. I am sure you are kidding.
And who told you he can’t gain the world cup opportunity from Belgium. Dude we are talking about belgium the number 1 team in the world. Spain germaniy argentina are behind that team and you are here boasting of offering him a better opportunity. Your country is ranked what in the world 70 something I guess. You really want to compare world number 70 with world number 1… The lad has a better opportunity of going to the world cup(even more than 1 appearance) with Belgium than he can ever get with Zambia…. Zambia don’t even have a coach with a real contract the football hnuse.
Johnny did you see the team list for Zambia qualifier. Do you think you can entice the lad with that kind of team. Sunzu is the only player in ur squad that plays in one of the top european league. He doesn’t even play, he bench warm regularly. Compare the list with what he will get with belgium hazard, Benteke, Fellaini, Kompany etc.
And hey Belgium is a country that give opportunity to foreigners just like France.
I don’t know what the coaches see in Patson Daka, Jack Chirwa and Adamson Mulao. Very strange selection indeed.
Badosqi zambia is a soccer powerhouses fifa ranking is irrelevant what number was zambia when Renard won afcon and became famous. Charly musonda can use zambia to rise to fame just as eto did with Cameroon and played for Barcelona. Charly would easily be African footballer of the year in 2-3 years and the entire europe would clamour for him. He will struggle to displace eden hazard. Eden hazard is a god in belgium so charly must be content as a bench warmer.
Give it a rest John, Charly Jr DOES NOT NEED ZAMBIA to in anyway. Are you talking about the same Zambia national team that will (if they do actually) pay him $250 appearance fee and then ask him to buy his own ticket and not arrange for his visa if the team is playing in another country? Much as I want him to play for Zambia, he is better off cashing in as a bench warmer in Belgium or England. Lets not be selfish, but if the kid plays for either of those country, he also gets free healthcare meaning that if he gets injured, the take care of his operational expenses fully. Do I dare ask if that would happen if he played for Zambia? Please put yourself in this kids shoes, of course you and I are angry about Charly not playing for Zambia and as such will be rational in judgement and that’s fine, but man, we don’t know the facts other than knowing that he is better off financially playing for his country of birth, unless you have your heard stuck in the sand and believing that Zambia will be better for him financially.
Adamson mulao likula jxt drop him
Much on Adam Mulau,de guy is gud as compaired to singuluma or patson daka. He shows his presence in de pitch like de way he did at CHAN an being de first time watch hime.
De first to watch him
OFF TOPIC: SIMATAA Simataa says if FAZ was serious about calling Charly Musonda, they would have sent George Lwandamina to Spain to watch the player.
And Simataa, who is Charles Musonda’s personal friend, says the former Chipolopolo legend learnt about his son’s call-up through the FAZ Facebook page.
Meanwhile, sources have revealed that sports minister Vincent Mwale who recently met with the Musondas in London, intimated to Chipolopolo coach Lwandamina to consider Musonda’s children.
Charles Junior, Musonda’s third son, has risen to prominence with his skilful display at Real Betis in Spain where he is on loan from English Premiership giant Chelsea.
His older brothers, Lamisha and Tika, were also youth graduates at Chelsea and Anderlecht.
“They have always known about Charles’ children for a long time, why now? And I talk to Charles [Senior] every day, he is the one that alerted me yesterday that, ‘Ba Simataa, I have seen on Facebook ati umwana bamwita (Simataa, I have seen on Facebook that they have called the child) but no one has communicated with him or us’…so that’s how I went to check Facebook and saw what was there and we talked,” Simataa said.
He said if FAZ was serious about calling Charly, they should have sent Lwandamina to Spain to watch the player as does Belgium national team coach Marc Wilmots who is keen on including the youngster in his Euro 2016 line-up.
“We went to [Africa Cup in] Tunisia in 1994. Actually Anderlecht refused to release [Musonda Senior] because of the way he was treated after he was injured on national duty. He was injured for a long time and Anderlecht decided to maintain him on the payroll because of the work he had done for them. So after Tunisia 94, then coach Roald Poulsen requested to see Charles but there was animosity from Kalusha as captain, so he was dropped. We called him again for the Gabon game in 1996 – the game that Gabon came two hours late. There was animosity again, and this time he dropped from the team and he left, that’s it,” said Simataa who was acting FAZ president at the time.
He said it was not fair to paint a picture that Musonda was bitter and unpatriotic when he sacrificed his health to play for Chipolopolo with an injury.
“Yes, he was abandoned but that’s why some of us started the healing process when I briefly acted in FAZ later in 1994. The man is not bitter, he talks to us. It’s a simple question; why can’t people at Football House call him and tell the nation that ‘we called him and he refused’? The minister goes to meet him, and you rush to Facebook without contacting the player or his parents, what are you trying to prove? They want in a few weeks from now to show that they are magnanimous, it’s not right,” he said.
And sources close to Football House said: “Yes the minister spoke to the coach about Charles’ children including those older ones at Chelsea, and the coach seized the initiative to communicate the minister’s views. But without initiating contacts, they rushed to communicate on Facebook. Actually nothing has happened behind the scenes apart from the minister’s visit. Actually it has been suggested that FAZ sends Lwandamina to visit the family because they are not difficult according to what the minister related with them last week. But we wait to see if George will be allowed to travel.”
Musonda’s wife Angela has been the most vocal of the family, stating that her son had a choice to play for either Belgium or England and can’t be forced to play for Zambia.
Imwe! Forget this Musonda boy story we tired of it. We have a lot of players to talk about and whom will benefit from…
Another example of what happens when you invest in your children. If these kids were in Zambia they would not be as good as they are right now. A lot of former players had children that are boys, but you don’t hear their names. Right now Colins Mbesuma is investing in his sons football skill, that kid scores goals with his eyes closed, so don’t worry Zambia, you are about to have a Didier Drogba/Eto calibre striker in 8-10yrs time if South Africa does not snatch that kid. When he is playing with his peers, he would be mistakenly to be 5yrs older than everybody and that’s how good he is, The is a natural born striker and he dominates convincingly.I am not making that up, So kudos to Mbesuma on being a good father and making sure that his boys continue the legacy.
The boy I am talking about is Lineker. he is good. He scores an average of 4 goals per game. There was a game he banged in 7 goals in 1 game at his academy team in South Africa.
Patson…kanshi even yourself u cant see that we dont want u near our chipolopolo? why cant u refuse the call? u re not a footballer.change your career.this is not u-17 where u cheated your age and got an advantage over those helpless Banganda children.Patson God is hearing the pain u bring to us. do yoself a favor by quitely staying away from the national team.we Zambians Dont want u.listen pliz!!!!!!!
haha..Is he thst bad?!
Patson has potential but it just not his time.
LETS CONCENTRATE ON TRAINING WE HAVE A GOOD TEAM.
wow John thus some wild dream. Even Messi struggles in the Argentine national team. Note that Zambia would compete against teams who have star players and players as good as and even better than Charly. North and West Africa i.e. Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana have quality that attracts foreign players of foreign decent. Zambia needs to do a lot to get the likes of Musonda and future bi-national.stars to have some passion to play. Separate patriotism from mediocrity. No one likes to be associated with failure
The Squad Is Ok But Not As Much Why Lefting Players Like Chisamba Lungu, Mukuka Mulenga, Emmanuel Mayuka, Bruce Musakanya Daniel Munyawu And Felix Katongo. Than Giving Chance To These Other Players Who Have No Experience? Please Our Head Coach Do Something We Love Our Team And We Are Proud.
Patson failed to shine this afternoon when Power beat GBFC.