Chipolopolo striker Bornwell Mwape has suffered an injury and will not be available for his club Amazulu’s midweek fixture.
Mwape who is part of the Zambian squad that will play in the Cosafa Senior Challenge team next month picked up the knock in last week’s 1-0 defeat to log leaders Kaizer Chiefs.
Kickoff reports that Mwape was seen hobbling around on crutches at a training session on Monday, but Usuthu coach Steve Barker says the striker escaped serious injury.
“Bornwell Mwape will be unavailable on Wednesday but he will be available on the 29th [against Platinum Stars] and it is just a precautionary measure for him to be on crutches,” explains Barker.
Mwape’s injury is also a blow to his club as he is the club’s current top scorer with six goal.
Not a good player. Not national team material
Let us not worry about players who don’t make a difference..not fit to play in the national team.
National team material or not or whether he makes a difference or not this is Zambian soccer news and Zamfoot has the right to report it.
In many ways Bornwell represents Zambian football. He shows us the level we have reached and where we fall short. He has shop experience but lacks fundamental skills ie scoring technique, kicking technique, ball control etc. He cannot be blamed for this. He plays how we taught him, but we were very bad teachers. I think youth development should be done by expats. They are better educated than former Zambian players currently doing that job and they seek to improve their skills meaning results always get better. Zambians must be forced to do so ; forced to get caf and uefa licences since they won’t take up the initiative themselves. Zambian coaches prefer to use their money for beer. As soon as they stop playing they stop keeping fit. They become fat with port bellies. How many look as fit and energetic as Mourinho, Conte or Simione. Even the elder statesman Pellegrini looks fitter than younger Zambian coaches. It truly is a shame.
Very good observation Vunga. I have been harping on the same thing here on this site before. Youth development in Zambia has always been focused on physical, but never tactical or technical aspects of the game. I saw this ku boarding. When he had a Zambian teacher as our coach, training consisted of ama pressups, frog jumps, abit of a passing drill, shooting…not instructed just chipante and then practice game. The juniors were being coached by a Briton and their training was full of drills, and their practice games were done on 5 aside pitch ello nama formation. That junior team beat the senior team in a practice game, ifwe dizz.
The moral of the story is that technical know how, tactical know how, is a neglected art form at youth level in Zambia. Your observations are on point. Zambian coaches need the extra training and motivation to make these things happen.
“VUNGA” you are very right on Bornwell as well as coaches. At the moment Zambia has only one professional to talk about Kalaba. The rest have nothing to offer.
Players can be molded into good strikers, defenders, wingers & midfielders by good coaches. All what Kalusha has talked about falls under good tutorship, no player can develop those attributes on his own.
Caution should go to our sports journalist, they like praising ‘AMAKULA’. The case in point, they were calling Sate Sate, Mukuka Mulenga etc as High Profile players who missed the game in Nigeria but will feature for Zambia in the return match.Look at their performance, it was pathetic to say. Truth may it be no one has bothered to find out how many games has Sate Sate featured in since he went to Egypt.
Kalaba our best player, also at TP Mazembe is nothing to be glad about when smaller footballing nations (Obamenyiang-Gabon, Ssengong-Benin i think!, Adebaypor-Togo, Serero-Ajax etc) player at higher levels!
Ki ki ki Ki @Vunga ati nama pot bellies and true that the contes and friends look much fitter than our bunch of coaches.