Emmanuel Mayuka was singled out by the ZamFoot Crew in 2008 alongside Rodger Kola and Stopilla Sunzu as ‘Zambia’s symbol of present and future.’
Has he fulfilled that tag?
A career that started with Mphanza Chiefs in the non-league has seen play for Kabwe Warriors were he rose to stardom. One of his highlights at Warriors when he banged a hatrick for Warriors at Nkoloma Stadium in a Cup game.
Click here to read how Egyptian media welcome Mayuka in Cairo
Then he trekked to Israel and who would forget about that banana like winning goal against Maccabi Haifa when played for arch rivals Maccabi Tev Aviv.
In Switzerland he had a successful spell at Young Boys before a move to Southampton in England were he made 16 appearances mostly off the bench with a return of 1 goal.
A loan spell at Sochaux didn’t really work out and then Metz.
Now at Zamalek, many Chipolopolo faithful are still hopeful that he will regain his old form and have one more push at any of the top 5 Euro leagues.
And it won’t end up in from Cairo to Cape move!
Below are Mayuka’s pics in Egypt…
Mayuka might be on the bench on Sunday for Zamalek
Ready for work…
gud pic
When he moved to Southampton I thought he will become one of the greatest African strikers. He had good record and the time looked right. On my part I’m very disappointed. By now he should have cemented his place in England. today we should have been talking about a move to bigger club. He has so much potential but l feel he has time on his side. A good season can turn his career around.
This man’s football career seems to be stuck in reverse gear.
In my opinion most of our players fail to fulfill their full potential because we somehow fail to groom them. Groom them to a level where they are prepared for anything that comes there way professionally. Mayauka is a perfect case in point, the minute he started earning something like $20,000 per week/$80,000 per month (K.880,000 per month) his performance went down. He gained weight, clearly stopped pushing himself to do better, only thing you’d hear or see him doing when he would come during the off season is drink, spend absurd amounts of money in hotels and not pay attention at working on his weaknesses. He never worked towards getting permanent game time, anyone who wants to prove a point works towards that. but Mayuka just never did at Southampton. look at Charles musonda’s son, he knows what he wants and his being groomed to put career before luxuries. Charles musonda’s son is now training with the Chelsea first team after working hard to impress. You can see the young man is hungry to do more than just train with the first team, he wants to play an official EPL game. you don,t see that hunger and discipline in our players of putting career before luxury. its a shame but Mayuka is still young and you can still see glimpses of his potential. but his time is running out, he needs to pull up his sock otherwise he will end up back in Kabwe sorry to say. I don’t wish that on him and hope he turns the tables for himself and mother Zambia’s Chipolopolo
For some unknown reason I read:
FAT boy Mayuka in Egypt.
Mayuka needs game time to regain is deadly form and rebuild his confidence. I think Zamalek will afford him that chance. For some reason, I strongly believe Europe has not seen that last of him
Finished chap from Europe to Africa and you re even happy.Zambia is next and division one for that matter.
When Sunzu moved to China you said hes finished… Mayuka will come back soon as well
Chris is back, Chansa is back, its time to get home I guess. Better be where you are celebrated than where you are relegated. Kalaba was wise. Why go to Europe where they don’t understand you. Rather stay in Africa where they celebrate you.
Were is mbesuma, u talked rubish but now reliable mayuka ii rise i still ve hope at 24 he has the future with him
This is OK for mayuka the boy was finishing in europe let him gain form he can be lethal again. As for Renard he is about to be named the new coach of Kazakhstan he is now coaching teams his level.
Are still blaming Ronald Koeman?!!!
@ john.. Ke ke ke ke come and repair my broken ribs
Caf tournaments since 2010
Afcon 2010-Angola
Caf U-20 2011-South Africa
Afcon-2013-South Africa
Afcon women 2014- Namibia
Chan 2014- South Africa
Caf tournaments since 2010
Afcon 2010-Angola
Caf U-20 2011-South Africa
Afcon-2013-South Africa
Afcon women 2014- Namibia
Chan 2014-South Africa
West Africa since 2010
Caf U-23-Senegal
Caf U-20- Senegal
Caf U-17 – Niger
John your inferiority complex towards west Africans is alarming. Now do you feel stupid? Besides go and take a look how west African teams performed in southern Africa compared to southern African teams.
What stopped you from winning Afcon 2010, 2010? How about 2014 Chan? The fact that U-23 afcon and U-17 were hosted in west Africa didn’t stop a serious footballing nation like south Africa from qualifying to the world events.
Whenever you fail you look for something or someone to blame, instead of looking inwards. That is the mentality that has kept Africa behind for so long. I guess Caf also tells European clubs to only sign west African footballers too. Crybaby!
And again your unusual obsession with Herve Renard. Are you hot for him or something?
I can only wish him well. His career though has taken down slide. He needs to boost his confidence. Please can his urgent or someone sit him down and give him a good fatherly talk. He needs this at the moment.
Sorry meant to say his Agent
I want my CB to beat uganda despite playing on Uganda (humuganda stadium), but I will support ZIM & ZAM 4 todays games. @ Paradox, please, freq 4 ghana free channel tv, am in Mwense rural district. DSTV is expensive.
Wow! I was once a Kalampa Boy the school of hard Knocks. I was there at Mwense Boyz , though I hear its a co-education now. Zamfoot will do their best , or tune to radio 2
Ba Mayuka mukose ku Egypt uko mwaya. I believe you still talented and you can recover and be a player you used to be in Israel and in Switzerland. I wish you well man.
So Zambia is playing today and there is no build up or any discussion? I think we are not taking Uganda seriously and it will be our undoing mwe.
I am actually very worried about today’s match against Uganda. I strongly feel Uganda are currently stronger than this Zambia game. It won’t be easy for Zambia. Uganda will be all over Zambia. Watch this space. A draw will be a very good result for Zambia, while a win will be a bonus.
Billy, I agree. Watching the highlights of the Uganda Mali game, it really looks like the Uganda team is pretty good. Zamfoot has gone to sleep on this, and there has been zero build up or discussion. I think things like that cause me to think that people are writing this Uganda team off. I would not do any such thing especially in a tournament setting. I hope Lwandamina learnt something while watching the match between Uganda and Mali. The Ugandans also seemed to be pretty tall so I can see alot of pressure on set pieces. Zambia need to seal this with a win so we can qualify early. Not this business of playing the last game in the group with butterflies in your stomach, ello na BP.
Meant to say … this Zambian team.
A talent gone 2 waste he will soon become a 25yr old veteran like how his friend Clifford was. I wish him a quick recovery to form, otherwise tefintu. Shout out 2 da Chipo boyz pliz doooon’t disappoint.