SIX months after hanging up his boots, striker Ronald ‘Sate Sate’ Kampamba has abandoned his retirement and embarked on regaining full fitness with Nkana coach Mwenya Chipepo hopeful of rekindling the former’s scoring prowess.
Early this season, Nkana appointed Kampamba as a member of the then Ian Bakala-led technical bench. Kampamba, 30, retired alongside midfielder Donashano Malama, who is the club’s physical trainer.
Chipepo said in an interview yesterday that Kampamba has been put on a special fitness programme which will see him returning to action soon.
“I do not want to talk about him [Kampamba]. At the moment we are working on his fitness levels but if you look at ‘Sate Sate’ [Kampamba], he is a very intelligent striker and maybe I can get something from him.
“The most important thing is fitness and he is clever and we want clever strikers in Zambia. He has all the attributes of a striker. I am going to make sure he gets back to his fitness levels and back in the system,” Chipepo said.
Kampamba, a two-time Super League winner with Nkana, won the golden boot in 2012 and 2013. He scored 15 goals in 2012 and netted 18 times the following season.
His age is not adding up