Zambia U20 national team coach Hector Chilombo has resigned his position following his team’s humiliating elimination from the on-going Senegal 2015 Africa Youth Championship Zambianfootball.co.zm understands.
The ZamFoot Crew understands that Chilombo read the writing on the wall and decided to honorably resign his position to avoid the embarrassment of being sacked by FAZ.
The Napsa Stars coach qualified Zambia to the CAF Championship without losing a game but his team fell short at the tournament losing all three group stage games to mark Zambia’s waste performance at the AYC since they first qualified.
He said after the match yesterday that he knew people at home were not happy with the 5 – 2 bashing at the hands of South Africa.
Chilombo said:
“It is a bad finish for Zambia, a team that played so well against Mali and Ghana. I’m not happy as a coach.”
“South Africa played well and was better organized. They were effective on the counter attack. Zambia is considered a powerhouse in football and I know people back home are not happy. We are building a team for the future and we will go back home and prepare.”
“The boys need to be encouraged because they have a future ahead. We have learnt a lot at this tournament from the technical team to the playing body.”
“The level of the competition has gone up and the standard is high. Zambia will host the 2017 edition of the African U-20 Championship and we hope to prepare a good team for competition.”
You deserve respect sir, i take my hat off my head for you. you have given your best, just that things could not go in your way. You are far much than JANZA
You still have a lot to learn. Whoever appointed you coach didn’t know what he was doing. You have embarrassed us big time! FAZ bring back Lwandamina or Phiri Patrick to the under 20. Look at Ghana! For how long has Teteh been incharge of that under 20? He has been there for some time. We need consistency and not just loyalty to appointing authority and kick backs!
@Anita, he knows that’s why he has stepped down
Honourable coach if you ask me. Realised he underachieved and did the right thing.I personally would want him to stay on despite the failure.he has learnt his mistake . FAZ should be the ones to go.
Truly Zambian, You are a leader may be next time your team in the future will do better. All the best big man
@nobble eagles, he is one of the few people in Zambia who can do that,i wish it was the case with the senior coach. the man has demonstrated how a leader should take things. not holding on the position when it is clear that you have failed to deliver.
Hehehehehehehe….. hihihihihihihi…… kikikikikiki…. hahahahaha. Oh Thank GOD am not a zambian.
And thank God we don’t live in the Lions den of Boko haram.
that’s better my brother ,because losing like that no one can accept ,
Zambia’s waste performance? Mr writer it’s not your fault okay. if what people here know is to refer to a region as waste Africa why won’t your writers be writing waste instead of worst.
That’s what honourable men do. Janza should’ve done the same.
The zambia under 20 that participated at this afcon has a lousy defence. One of the weakest defenses zambia has produced at under 20 level. The class of 07 beat Uruguay at the world cup. It just shows you how the difference in class is huge.
ok so we hav sure men in zambia, who can resign gud show. But the team should be kept i was imprest wth same players.
Bola ku wina not ukuteya
Good decision from the coach. Honestly we have some sleepy auto pilot admistrators running football now but to go with that we have a fatal problem of coaches, we simply dont have the coaches. There maybe 1 or 2 coaches in Zambia who can compete but the others are not upto scratch. They are everwhelemed in international football far easilly. It goes back to the admin. We are lost and there should be an intervention.
This coach looks like a BOXER!! LOL
With those hardened jaws, thick neck and big head, Zambia can include him in their OLYMPICS BOXING TEAM TO BRING SOME GOLD MEDALS!! LOL
How an HEAVYWEIGHT LOOKING BOXER became a national coach beats me!!
Haha
He can knockout John dramani mahama in the ring.
Nope he can knock your Bantu father off your mother and RAPE HER LIKR A DOG!! LOL
U UGHLY ZAMBIAN BABOON LOL
Hahaaaaa!!!
Honorable thing to do sir and thank you for your services. I think you just didn’t have luck in the Ghana game and material was a bit raw.
Now this is honourable of the coach. This is the quality of honour we miss in Africa. If only people like Issa Hayatou could take a leaf and learn the importance of such honour we would not have the nonsense football leadership we are currently experiencing in Africa.
For this particular action I salute you coach. Despite this terrible performance you did win us the cup in Zimbabwe and for that we are grateful.
Step down, reflect, work on the things you have reflected on that caused the dismal performance and you will come back stronger.
How many preparatory matches did the team have before the tournament?
You can not reap where you did not sow.
Next will be the under 23 and then the women who we even failed to ferry home from their last tournament.
Let us not blame the coaches as the administration is doing zero in making our women and youth heros.
Hector was a good intelligent player and able vice captain for chipolopolo,I salute him for resigning
Big Steve let’s not give them any praise for the cheap cup in zim. Who cares about that cup. That cup can’t even be reported on BBC news.
There is no evidence from the report that he has resigned. In the post match press conference he gave no indication he had intentions of resigning. until I hear it from the horse’s mouth am reserving my comment but what I know is that Zambians dont resign.
U guys need to really re-strategise cos dis streak of disappointments is becoming alarming, nobody will take u serious if dis
continues for some time.
Teteh and his looks,can he be compared to Hector lol
Kwashala ba JANZA hector has done the honourable thing
If you are so handsome than Hector Chilombo then you are insulting your maker who created you.let’s keep to the discussion
The likes of Teteh are the ones that give credence that man indeed originated from Apes!
It’s high time zamfoot seriously stated to moderate all the comments here because some of these foreign bloggers rant like reckons
Ever since thus administration came in, under national teams football has gone down, cant wait to see them bad, this habit of losing its affecting our die hard support
Ba Kalu, take a leaf from Hector & you will lose nothing. Be a man!