The Football Association of Zambia, FAZ is set to appoint Irfan Kawri as Chipolopolo coach, Zambianfootball.co.zm can exclusively reveal.
And George Lwandamina will continue as HEAD TRAINER with both men set to plot Zambia’s passage at the CHAN 2016 tournament in Rwanda which starts on January 16.
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Kawri and Lwandamina will be tasked to deliver the CHAN trophy on February 9 by the Football House hierarchy in Lusaka or atleast a semi final place.
According to the ZamFoot Crew sources in England, Kawri, who has an Asian Father and a Zambian Mother [has a British passport] will be part of the Chipolopolo technical bench for the CHAN tournament.
“Mr Kawri is coming as a coach while Mr Lwandamina will be the head trainer. He is a good coach,” a source told the ZamFoot Crew.
“He won’t be new to Zambian football actually. He was part of the junior Chipolopolo teams when Patrick Phiri was in charge around 2000,” the source added.
The 34 year old has worked his way from non-league to league football in England.
Having failed to make a cut as a proffesional footballer, Kawri earned a Sports Science degree before attaining his football coaching badges.
He has coached in the lower tiers of English football but his breakthrough was at Wigan Athletic where he worked as an opposition scout.
In addition he has a UEFA B and UEFA A licence preparatory course [hasn’t yet completed UEFA A] as well as a member of Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink’s backroom staff at Burton Albion, a league one English side before the Dutch man and former Chelsea striker took over at Championship side QPR early this month.
He also combined roles of youth team coach and opposition scout analyst.
Kawri has been handed the Chipolopolo job and its up to him to deliver CHAN trophy. In short, it is his job to lose.
Win CHAN or get to last four, then he will be in-charge of Zambia’s African and World Cup qualifiers.
In 2008, FAZ President Kalusha Bwalya head hunted for then little known Frenchman Herve Renard and while critics were sceptical about the former Ghana assistant coach and physical trainer’s lack of experience at the top level, the outspoken Frenchman delivered the African Cup of Nations not only with Zambia but also with Ivory Coast.
Is he the head coach or assistant…How can you blame him of he doesn’t win Chan notwithstanding that he isn’t the one that selected the players….
We need people like this, the unknown. The only worse thing about him is the name.
kekekekeke…ba Nostra…the name ka?
zmfoot pliz adviz the difference between trainer & coach in relation to this story& wu wil b above wu?
Ma Rubbish ya Kalu, he is scrambling for success huh? For the sake of this young coach, I wish him success in whatever hand picking process this failed FAZ has used to hire him. Yay we have a foreign coach now, come govt give king Kalu money. Useless corrupt moron with their secretive dealings. No transparency at all.
This guy is not a coach, he is a player scout..understand the difference? Someone that goes to scout for talent for particular teams not someone that reads games and makes adjustments to win games or trains players. Kalu thinks he is going to make another Renard? Ghana looks genius for hiring Avram Grant, oh wait, they didn’t win the AFCON 2015, never mind.
that comment will attract our friends from ghana and fighting will start
It’s not making sense at all.
Hmmm, i prefer to keep Lwandamina but let us see what he can produce. Competition is a good thing!
Even competition for Faz president and Fifa president is healthy.
Iyo kwena tu langala! What have we done to Kalusha for him to treat us like this kanshi?
let us give him chance, even da special strtd small.
a scout for zambia coaching job??. chai chai
This is something else, why is it that FAZ like selecting foreign couches in secret? No transparecy at all…….and zamfoot or FAZ can you be precise who will be the head couch Lwandamina or this player scout?
This is total confusion now.
I feel the entire technical bench should have been changed.the muzungu assisted by Patrick phiri and Muhammad phat.then technical director ponga liwewe not abena Lwandamina na chintu the song bed.seriously we need to change everything at Faz surely how can faz pull out women under 17 from participating in the world cup qualifiers without explanations.ala naikosa pa zed
Pipo let’s try him thou I’m nt sure if he will be better than our lwandamina
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Awe
And where is “Mr La Boom”?…
Sorry about the Moderated comment…just tempers i guess….wat in the world are we doing kanshi!!…
useless coach we are going no where with these pathetic coaches. we need a coach who can take us to de world cup.
do not say herve deliverd afcon to make it look like the headhunt bore fruit. herve winning afcon was a stroke of luck, largly boneti drilled the team. this kawry busness is kalus work, not us, not stakeholders
All the best to this guy
Who will pay the salary for this guy.Is it FAZ or the govt?
Wen herve renard was in ghana as a physical trainer they didnt know they are keeping a coach,he was sported by the same kalu u are insulting wen we were crown african champs the story changed,y are zed pipo owez lyk being negative? lets try da new man and c da change he wil bring 2our own chips i wish him all da best.
Ichipuba chimbi. Shallow thinking. I am disgusted with you Zambians.
lolx TC soccerman. Yh thus true. Ghana hiring Grant couldnt win AFCON. And Zambia would hire another Rookie coach and win AFCON 2017. And Zambia would beat teams like Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, Senegal, Mali and qualify to Russia 2018. Clap clap clap clap go Chipolopolo we love you iyeeeeeee iyeeeeeee
Let’s Wait And See!!!
ala mwandini natubatumpika saana ba FAZ. this is kalu and his old tricks. let us see these guys out of office come march,2016.And those puppet and muppet councilors must not be duped by kalu again or else we will skin them alive.