Former Chipolopolo coach MILUTIN SREDOJEVIC says excessive experimentation in player selection contributed to Zambia’s poor performance at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations -AFCON.
SREDOJEVIC says one of the main challenges facing the Chipolopolo team was an imbalance between young and experienced players.
He explains that for a tournament of AFCON’s scale, Zambia would have benefited more from relying on seasoned players to provide leadership and stability on the pitch.
SREDOJEVIC adds that to address the situation, there is a need for a clear long-term strategy outlining how players are developed and gradually integrated into the national team.
By Chansa Kunda, ZNBC
This is why Micho was never right for Zambia. He is talking about experience of players… Zambia has experienced players now, bola na lesa are mature now.
The problem is actually much further back, Bola Na Lesa only got coached by poor foreign coaches. Seven, Micho, and holiday Avram.
They have no experience to play succesfully at this level because no one has trained them.
You can’t pluck any foreign coach, if you are going to that it is better you stick with Wada Wada.
The coach you select must have the correct attributes to coach and train players in a specific sustem of play. Zambia tactics were useless under Grant, Micho, Seven. God knows what these coaches were telling the players…
Micho… hasnt spent more than a year in each job…
Same as Sven. Only stayed a year in each job…
The man who coaches Zambia must have very specific qualities and a very specific character.
How about Mbesuma?