The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has finally unveiled the KoPa kit which will be available for sale on the market starting next week.
FAZ announced at the start of the year that they were launching an in-house kit for all the national soccer teams which will be also be available for sale to other sports teams.
The kit was first used by the Chipolopolo at 2018 CHAN tournament in January.
However, the replicas have not been available on the market since then.
FAZ General Secretary Ponga Liwewe said the Association is targeting to sale 150,000 jersey in the first year.
“There has been immense demand from the public and we intend to sell no less than a 150, 000 replicas in the first year across the country. This is the target that we have set and it is achievable,” Liwewe said.“Of course the biggest activity is when the team is in action, we have four Africa Cup matches coming, two at home and two away.”
“We have undergone the process of recruiting retailers who will be distributing the brand. We are going to announce the names of those retailers and we will officially have the product in the market from next week Wednesday. We will announce the retailers so that the public can engage the retailers,” he said.
The replicas will be selling at K250.
“LOcal and Indigenous”? This is neither a local or indigenous brand. The name is a slang from Copper and in the slang “Ba Kopala” meaning the people living on the Copperbelt or a reference as well to people who hassle “pa Migodi”, or more sarcastically people who have money.
The materials used are made in China, the putting together of the materials (Textile manufacturing and associated branding is not locally done, at least for the original ones used at Chan).
So what is local about the brand? I would rather suggest that more is invested in promoting genuinely local branding from A to Z not these cheap Chines undercut methods of branding. In china anyone can brand its cheap to do that
At Redlinso Njakita: An explanation of why a brand arrived at in this fashion can be viewed as local was made sometime back.
In that article the focus was on who manufactures the many football jerseys that are on the market today, branded and unbranded? The answer,which we were told was arrived at by way of reseach pointed to Asia. The explanation further made suggested that some big brands whose origins have been completely disassociated with Asia are manufactured in Asia.
This is the truth that customers would not like to here about merchandise modus oparandi. View it this way, If your country was manufacturing copper wires and selling them to the world without insulation, the insulated product that would flood the market( including your Zambian market) will never suggest that the wire was made in Zambia. That is a bitter truth, but it is what makes big companies that buy a product to sell it make money. Your Zambian wires would carry information like Made in Germany. A product of the republic of South Africa, Proudly U.S.A.
Shut up
We’ll never appreciate, I like it congrats faz on this one. Local is laka
So shallow minded pipo criticise anything what z wrong with the kopa brand being made in china/Asia??you everithing from china z fake?do you know were Mafro and some of these brands are manufactured from?..Thumbs to faz we will buy the the jersey especially that it z quality locally designed brand!
you think everithing from china z fake????
Hi, what is the order of kits? The green is the home kit, orange is the away and white is the third?
Mafro was better…