Red Arrows Women Football Club head Coach Simon Bwale bemoaned poor officiating from the referee after his side went down 2-1 at their backyard at the hands of Green Eagles Women Football Club who have not tasted defeat in their last 3 games.
Going into this game the Air Women were coming from a convincing 6-nil win away to Luyando Foundation while Eagles held Yasa to a nil-nil scoreline, so there was a lot that was at stake in this fixture.
Bwale told the ZamFoot Crew that despite the game is okay, he was not happy with some of the referee’s decisions.
“The game was okay, we played well despite the referee making some wrong calls. This is the second game he has done that, the first was when we played Nkwazi Queens in Chibolya and also in this game. I don’t know why he is doing this, We don’t know otherwise the game was okay we played well. It is just the referee who has let us down. The players were geared for the game,” He said.
He called on referees to also play a part in improving Women football in the country as they are also part of the game. He mentioned that his side had a couple of penalty appeals and were all denied.
-We had about 3 penalties and he disallowed one that is the problem. And the way the referee is saying that I won’t blow any penalty. Where are we going now are we improving women football or we want to kill women football? Because even the referee he is also part of the players. We want to improve women football he is part of the play, he killed us- Bwale.
There was no much talk between the players and the referee in the second half and the Arrows technical bench had to talk to their players to continue to uphold their high disciplinary levels.
“We talked to them during half time to concentrate. You know our team is a club of discipline so what we said, we talked to the players that let us maintain our discipline stop talking to the referee. We have officials we have our secretary we will do something to the FAZ so that they know what is happening in women football circles.”
The ZAF sponsored side has a number of players currently on National Team Duty at the ongoing 2019 COSAFA Women Championships in South Africa for the Senior and Under 20 side and Bwale believes that their absence has absolutely not affected the team’s performance.
“No!! That’s why we registered 35 players, only that the referee disturbed the players you know how women are they are different from men. They were geared for the game that’s why we said let us play so that even those at the national team we encourage them, we give them the morale that our girls are winning just like how they are also doing well in South Africa,” He told the ZamFoot Crew.
Maiwase Square scored for Arrows while Eagles found the back of the net through Amira Njobvu and Racheal Moono for the game to end 2-1 in favor of Eagles.
