Nkana FC coach Aggrey Chiyangi will lead the Chipolopolo at the 2016 Cosafa Castle Cup after his clubNkana FC rescinded its decision not to allow him travel with the team to Namibia.
Nkana chairman Evaristo Kabila has confirmed that the title chasing club who are currently second on the log will allow Chiyangi to be with the Chipolopolo for the whole duration of the tournament.
The development comes after successful negotiations between the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) and Nkana.
FAZ Secretary General Ponga Liwewe traveled to Kitwe to negotiate the release of Chiyangi.
The 1994 Africa Cup of Nations silver medalist was in charge of the Chipolopolo when Zambia drew 0 – 0 against Gambia in an international friendly before the Chipolopolo lost to Guinea Bissau after George Lwandamina was allowed to travel home soon after playing Togo.
FAZ initially announced that Power Dynamos coach Dani Kabwe would lead the Chipolopolo at the tournament after the withdrawal of head coach George Lwandamina and his two assistants Chiyangi and Elijah Chikwanda.
Zambia kickoff their Cosafa campaign on Sunday at the quarter final stage.
The national team is currently in camp in Lusaka training from the Heroes stadium.
No news here m done with chipolopolo
Aggrey chiyangi one of the fool who were picked in a public toilet to assist chicken to destroy zambian football. The man is useless . He is not vocal and he does not contribute anything.. Ponga liwewe is also useless as well
what has happened to Dan Kabwe?
The change you wanted lets wait and see.
iwe kalu is gone. move on. your kandile days are over
Will suffer with these two failures at the helm of FAZ.where are their bootlickers who started watching Zambian football 100 years ago and yet cant see anything wrong in chilwandamina and failure Kamanga insisting that village chicken should continue after feeding the whole country with kunku ya chipumpu and everyone is sick ate is sick.
Its lyk our tecnical bench is 4 any1 who fils lyk coaching kubuta uku zoona ths is nonsense kamanga u hav disapointed me!!!you ar provoking angry fans.
Why r we failin to hire a foreign coach? If the govnmnt can pay traditional chiefs a lot of money, then we can’t fail to pay an expatriate coach. We ‘ve Got selfish leaders in zambian. Ba kamanga naimwe do something
Ati kamanga is very organised. ..organised my foot..
STRIKERS: LUCHANGA, FESTUS MBEWE AND PATRICK DAKA !!!!!! HOW MANY GOALS HAVE THESE SCORED UP TO WEEK 15???
ARE WE TAKING THEM FOR A GOAL SCORING TRAINING IN NAMIMBIA SO THAT THEY WILL BE BETTER WHEN THEY COME BACK? WHAT IS THIS ??
IF NOT MISTAKEN, CONGO DR ARE GUESTS AT THIS COSAFA, PYE PYE!!!
am waiting to c walter bwalya now
Let Chiyangi and company call the following players if Zambia has to do wonders at Cosafa;
1) Walter Bwalya (Nkana)
2. Steward Chikandiwe (Nkwazi)
3. Ronald Chibwe (Forest)
4. Kobe Chipeta (Forest)
5. Diamond Chikwekwe ( Buffaloes)
6. Larry Bwalya (Power Dynamos)
7. Shadreck Musonda (Nkana)
8. Kambole (ZESCO)
For me these are the most outstanding players in the ZPL, Lwandamina is a fool not to have called thse for COSAFA
Also Fwayo Tembo can add value to the team, those who have contacts with FAZ lets influence them to make changes to the curren team composed of the usual failures; Katema, sautu, mkandawire and other failures
Kalusha is gone you cadres should sh*ut up and allow Kamanga do his job we are tired of the team going late for games like what happened against cape verde and ghana. Cheap flight arrangements that cost us. Kamanga will fire Lwandamina eventually can you allow him to work.
the real issue here is pathetic and corrupt team selection from raw coaches
Letter: Kamanga’s 2 Months, 2 Weeks Under Review
Peter Adamu | June 14, 2016
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KamangaIt is incredible that Andrew Kamanga 2 months and 2 weeks into his reign as FAZ President is under fire and is being compared with the previous incumbent who had 12 years to make a difference to Zambian football.
The failure to qualify to AFCON 2017 has been laid at Kamanga’s door when we all know the real reasons for this failure. We have terribly neglected junior soccer and the pipeline for new players has simply dried up.
I contend to this day that the 2012 Africa Cup win was a fluke and a blip in our downward trend for the last decade and a half. 2015 saw the nadir and lowest fortunes for Zambian soccer across the board. Every single national team from Under 17 to the Senior team was knocked out or failed to qualify for tournaments.
In 2016 Zambia was still calling upon or considering as its best strikers Collins Mbesuma, Jacob Mulenga, Christopher Katongo, Winstone Kalengo, James CHamanga who all played in the league 15 years ago and the first three all first played in the senior national in 2003/2004. All the players listed are around 33 to 36 years bracket.
Our midfield anchor was one Isaac Chansa also from that same generation. Our most creative midfielder is Rainford Kalaba also from the same era although slightly younger.
Our cupboard is bare. We have no top class youth client in the pipeline. The days of like 1993 when Zambia could field literally four squads of 22 players who could be competitive at an AFCON are gone. People forget that before the Gabon disaster the two Elijahs Tana and Litana were considered fringe national team players and were never called up even when 30 or 40 players were called up. Aggrey CHiyangi, Evans Sakala, John Lungu, Kenneth and Mordon Malitoli, Zeddy Saileti were all in the same boat.
Yet in the period 1994 to 1997 we were the best team in Africa !!! We were number 1 in the FIFA rankings and we were 2nd and 3rd in consecutive AFCONs.
Why ? We had depth and quality in that depth. Seriously speaking I do not see how say Chisamba Lungu could have played in any national team from 1992 to 1996 !!! I don’t think any of our defence would have held down even a squad place and our striking force definitely would not have matched what we had available that time.
The time to rebuild and revamp soccer has come. It will be painful but it has to be done. We need that conveyor belt of talent that for 30 years from 1970 to 2000 produced quality players. Green Buffaloes as League Champions in the mid 1970s went to Mwinilunga for a preseason tour and were stunned when a Mwinilunga Secondary School team almost beat them !!!
Football pitches in this country have become markets or built over. Schools soccer no longer exist. Age group soccer does not exist. Amateur soccer seems to have disappeared altogether.
The days when a game between Kabulonga Boys and Libala Secondary School could descend into a riot because of passionate fans as it did in 1985 are long gone. By the way the game was held at Woodlands Stadium simply because the crowd for the game was massive.
We have spent our soccer capital and it is time to invest and rebuild. Luchanga, Sautu, Musakanya and friends are good but not good enough.
Brian Mulenga
Just read your stuff above, good stuff there and I wished our football administrators would read that and take note. So you mean there is no more school soccer? The likes of Kelvin Mutale(Naboye), Edward Kangwa were studs and were discovered at school level, so I find it stupid that school soccer would be ignored. By the way this is all Kalu’s doing when he spending all his time in South Africa and not developing local game at youth level. I remember we used to have cocacola tournament and those of us that were in the Northern Province we had JOVC sponsored by Japanese Overseas Volunteers Corporation, I remember there used to be good untapped talents from Schools like Serenje Boys(my School) Mpika Boys, Mungwi, Kasama boys etc Then you look at school from Kabwe that supplied Kabwe warriors with talent, so it is important to put money into school talent. How is the NFL and NBA gets its talent? Colleges. Bring back school football and make it very competitive and rewarding. I think Kamanga needs to work with Ministry of Education and provide scholarships for students that play football, meaning they go to school free, books tutors all paid for. This will encourage students to work hard for those scholarships, Parents will also encourage their kids to work hard as they won’t have to pay for school if they get that scholarship and then FAZ should have clubs draft these players with a guaranteed contracts if they are good enough, then watch how Zambia becomes great again. If Kamanga is not doing this, he will fail as well. You can’t win games without talent.
Whats your point? Because the issue at hand is that the local coaches have failed us. Even the little talent that we have cannot be tapped or selected because of corruption. This country is not short of talent but short of local coaches and administrators.
The cry is that those at the top cannot see these anormalies in the selection process, they fear to question and make the coaches accountable for their decisions. Fans cry are not taken into acount, thats why people are now questioning Kamanga’s administration, which is failing to make rational decisions. e.g how do you hire Kabwe instead of Patrick Phiri? what method was used to hire Kabwe? and what can prevent u and me to question the morals of Kamanga?
l have not finished reading the whole article,because it has already made me upset,Kamanga criticised kalu day and night so what has he brought on the table apart from accepting also that FAZ has no money to engage an expatriate coach.lets accept that we have players who could have qualified us to afcon no matter what.l don’t agree with nurseries blah blah yes its good but Zambian football is big ,we re not Lesotho ot Madagascar with limited players,its just shallowness of our local coaches who l can call pathetic.it all started with janza all this useless players like katema,Boyd and chepeshi costed us .imagine if renarf was would not even use these raw players at all.My blame is janza and his predecessor very hopeless individuals.I blame Kamanga for saying lwandamina will continue as coach that shows how incapable he is.l agree with chisambas sentiments the coach is corrupt who only wanted to play players from his former clubs as the expense of professionals.ichilufumo
I totally agree with you. Raw players costed us. its a pity that Kamanga has got the eyes which cant see. Lwandamina is very corrupt. we need an expatriate coach. The line up in Guinea Bisau was full of amafi yakwa lwandamina na kamanga. We had players who could have raised our mother Zambia’s Flag. Janza also messed up the team big times. The baggar embarrassed us at the AFCON. He went to AFCON with useless players after bamulishamo. Wasting tax payers money.Below are the players who could have taken us to AFCON
1 Kennedy Mweene (Vice Captain)
2 Davies Nkausu
3 Joseph Musanda (He is not finished)
4 Kondwani mtonga
5 Stopilla Sunzu
6 Nathan Sinkala
7 Chisamba Lungu
8 Isaac Chansa
9 Mbesuma
10 Katongo captain
11 Kalaba Rainford
Substitutes
Munyau
Racha Kola
Fwayo Tembo
Lubambo Musonda
winstone kalengo
Buchizya Mfune
Evans Kangwa
Aaron katebe (Played well at mwanawasa for Zambia vs guines Bissau
Emmanuel Mbola
Tired of useless Zambian players and the useless inexperienced Zambian coaches. No comment
BA PUNGWA.
My 8 year old Son asked me how it was in our time when welcoming Chipolopolo from wining any AFCON. I was embarrassed to say that we were seeing it together for the first time. So numbers do not lie. Your super teams from the past won nothing? Real or fluke!
Bakandile aba kalusha have invaded zamfoot & busy spitting thier dirt on kamanga. continue crying, kalu aint coming back mwaumfwa bakandile…
Anonymous, Dan Kabwe was appointed based on qualifications – he just remains with practicals to complete his uefa B. Right now, the only others with this qualification are Janza, Chris Kaundu and I think Kelvin Kaindu based in Zim has completed. With Chris Kaunda involved with the un der 17 ( he needs to finish his project ) and akindu out of the country, Dan kabwe is a the best way forward and I say good decision by Kamanga. Should we go back to Patrick Phiri who failed to qualify us in 2004? would that really be progress . I think he has had his time so let him continue making positive contributions in the local league. Lwandamina has CAF qualifications which he got at gunpoint ie with the new rules that you need minimum caf c to sit on the bench locally, so does Patrick Phiri. The game at national level has become a bit too sophisticated for these qualifications, as we have all seen. We are on the right track by putting qualifications first.
Zambian football is slowly going down,the team going for cosafa will be eliminated period!I thought we got something from the last game but we’re back to the same useless players.going by the standard of our local league my best 11 are 1. Racha kola 2. Katebe 3. Kapumbu 4. Ziyo Tembo 5. Adrian Chama 6. Benson Sakala 7. Charles Zulu 8. Cletus chama 9. Walter Bwalya 10. Chris Katongo 11. Rodrick Kabwe.sub Chikandiwa,kabamba,Luchanga, Donashano Malama, Situmbeko, Fwayo,Sautu,Salulani,Jacob Ngulube,Munyau.we need to take this tournament seriously because preparations for world cup qualifiers and under 20 games next year begins now.
Ba TC, apart from better travel arrangements, you miss out on two good freindlies – we went to West Africa better prepared than we have been, away, in a very long time ! The long awaited bus is here – without any hullabaloo and presented in a manner void of seeking political capital. Selling FAZto the Corporate world is the way to go, but you have ton admit that its a hard sale to achieve in two months, in our current economic environment and looking at our past reputation as FAZ (Kaili yali ninkongole fye” type of operation). Kamanga and Ponga are going about the motions without seeking political capital. Quietly Ponga has resolved the issue of Aggrey Chiyangi’s withdrawal. There are more positives to come. smell the Coffee and get on the positive support bandwagon. This new team needs all our support.
Yeah I hear you, I forgot the bus and all the friendly arrangements. Yes Kalu and corrupt crew burned a lot of bridges and because of that, sponsors are staying away, but Kalu’s cadres ignore those facts. Kamanga and his executive will have to build that trust again. We the private individuals needs to be involved in helping financially, but again, how sure are that this help will go towards developing football and not going into some corrupt !diots pockets? Zambia belongs to all of us and when things ain’t going well, we the citizen needs to step up,but I don’t know how… since our leadership(government) only cares about their political gains so they can continue to loot all the country’s resources.
but the team has bin choosen by george
Andrew kamanga took over the mess left by kalusha and his corrupt minnions jst like obama took over the mess left by bush in that Iraqi war.
bakandile dont blame kamanga but blame your idol who was chucked out. dont hated the player but hate the game
our league has got player even better players in the league would have drawn against GB
Mulandafye ati kalu ali corrupt present your case to anti-corruption or FBI that he be arrested like jack warner, blatter,etc
Am not saying kalu is a saint but he’s better than kamanga
I would have loved to see our U20s playing at COSAFA. These boys need exposure instead of playing old legs like C.Katongo, F.Mbewe and the others. We could actually blend two or three players from the U23s.
South Africa will be playing their U23s going to the Olympics.
Let the young boys GO. Instead of madalas who are going to fail let the young boys give it a shot and bet exposure.
Brazil SACK Dunga upon arrival from USA where they were eliminated in the group phase in the on going Copa America, now folks, that’ what I call leadership at the Brazilian football association not useless FAZ rewarding mediocrity.
Just off topic for those who were born yesterday watch the real chicken George in roots on history channel of DSTV,not this unless coach who thinks Paul katema is national team material,useless very useless indeed