Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president Kalusha has said Zambia should not worry about the FIFA ban handed on Zimbabwe over unpaid dues to a coach, saying that case and the local issue where FAZ owes former coach Dario Bonetti in unpaid dues were different.
While declining to state more, Kalusha said there was no need for football fans to worry because Zambia was not Zimbabwe.
He said it would not be prudent to comment on a matter that FIFA was handling because the world football governing body had written FAZ and the issue was being ably handled.
The FAZ chief also denied the association was in contact with Bonetti.
Kalusha said Bonetti decided to take the matter to FIFA and it would be unethical for FAZ to comment on the matter or even communicate with the Italian trainer.
“FIFA has already written to us as FAZ and the association already knows what is required to do,” he said.
FAZ and Bonetti have been at loggerheads since the Italian left the coaching role unceremoniously in 2011 soon after qualifying Zambia to 2012 Africa Cup of Nations.
He was replaced by Frenchman Hervé Renard, the man he had taken over the mantle from, but FAZ contested the claim for compensation, stating the Italian never had a contract with FAZ.
Bonetti took the matter to FIFA who ruled that the coach should be paid.
Zimbabwe was last week kicked out of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers over unpaid dues to their former coach Jose Claudinei Georgini.
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Kalusha bwalya really has to sit down and look at the way zambian football is being run at the moment and be honest with himself if we are moving forward. This Italian guy was fired in disgrace yet Janza is still around. Janza should have been fired a long time ago and replaced with a serious coach preferably European and screened under a stringent and transparent selection process.
Kalu loves money…he can NEVER be objective in such matters…he cuts corners; if one was to go through faz’s books…he is the waste leader we have had in that seat…
Zambia can not manage a good european coach,we failed to pay bonnet and patrice.we had problems paying herve rena,we just need a good combination of experienced local coaches
Kalusha, you are the one who should be banned from FAZ. So you can continue with your soccer analysis on supersport in Randburg, Johannesburg. You are just a liability to FAZ and the nation of Zambia.
Common guys, let’s debate objectively. All of you are disappointed with the Zambian teams’ performances, hence your negative reactions. In the modern Football administration, I would rate Kalu highly. You all remember how Bonetti was recruited, it was not FAZ but Lupiya and Co who imposed him on FAZ.
Kalusha is useless naiwe. He is just assuring us at what the situation stands with FIFA and that his job. As far as general running of the FA is concerned, the guy is a failure as he is not an administator.
He surely knows something that we don’t, so let him handle the situation the he ‘ll take us forward.
foward with kalu ,the only faz chief to have won the afcon trophy
I have stopped watchn Zambian football whilst this guy is around!All the Zambian teams at any level cant score through coordinated play and the tactics employed are naive. The goals scored are fluke goals through rebounds, careless mistakes mistakes on the part of the opposition. The guys chosen to coach are timid guys with no fire as a result the teams have no heart, the tactics are naive with the teams set out to attack and after a while become frustrated and concede, a more sensible setup would be to play compact and use skills and coordinated play to break up the opposition. But kalusha cant allow this to happen and Bonneti wot get his pay becoz kalusha didnt get a cut!