-Forgotten Zambian striker Collins Mbesuma could make the Bursaspor first team ahead of Sundays away league match to Ankaraguku in the Turkish Capital.
Bursaspor’s official site reports that Mbesuma is set to make the final 18 man-team that will travel to Ankara for their mid-table clash this weekend.
Bursaspor and Ankaragucu are 11th and 8th on the table respectively on the 18-team Turkish Super Lig table.
Mbesuma has been struggling with fitness since joining Bursaspor from English club Portsmouth last August.
-A Rainford Kalaba-less Zambia have delayed their departure for Swaziland today, Thursday due to a flight congestion problem from Lusaka.
The team was expected to leave for Manzini via Johannesburg today but have had to put back their departure to Friday to avoid traveling in two groups over the next 24 hours.
Zambia will travel as one group on Friday instead ahead of Sunday’s first leg match in the inaugural Caf Africa Nations Championship preliminary round qualifier.
Faz will send it’s Under-23 team to face Swaziland instead of the senior team whose programme has been put on hold due to Saturdays annual general meeting and executive committee elections.
Moreover, Patrick Phiri’s contract as Zambia head coach comes to an end this Saturday March 29.
-Promoted Nkwazi have ended all speculation today about whether ex-Lusaka Dynamos coach Oswald Mutapa would return to the team played for and later coached after he was unveiled today as the clubs new head trainer.
The development will see Shex Chipoya who helped guide Nkwazi back to the top-flight after just one season relegated to Mupata’s assistant.
Nkwazi’s gain is Dynamos loss after the latter failed in their bid to retain his services for this season after guiding them to an impressive run last term.
Dynamos under Mutapa mounted a strong challenge for second place before running out of steam to finish sixth on the Premier League table.
The Queensmead side is currently searching for Mutapa’s replacement after two unsatisfactory results under the caretaker duo of Lucas Phiri and Joel Kabemba.
Dynamos have one point from two games while Nkwazi have four after the first two round of the league matches.
Mbesuma needs to be on a nandos advert
UNDISPUTED LUSAKA TO CHI-TOWN, please ha! ha! Hiiiii!
Good nes for Mbesuma, we really need him to have some game time. The zambian frontline needs sharpening. It needs someone to parner Chris.
good news, mbesuma is a great player i just hope he gets back to his fitness. we need goals.
YES 3 an 4 ur right need someone to patner katongo and believe u me if mbesuma ,katongo, mulenga, felix are at their best zed will be a force to reckon with.more needs to be done in the midfield and defense before we kicko off the qualifiers for 2010
Zed pipo kindly brief on Kalabas issue is the boy injured or what? i feel for him and Emmanuel Mayuka who is now clubless.
Sending under 23 for CAF qualifiers is putting a bomb in our pants. Dont cry foul when Swaziland give a hiding to these youngsters Chipolopolo.
HK # 7.The U-23s are playing in the new Caf Africa Nations Championship not the Caf Qualifiers for Angola.Personally i feel this is a step in the right direction for Faz to let these young boys play in this new competition.It will give them exposure as we look to for players to replace the E.Tanas,Ian Bakala’s ,A.Sinkala etc who might have played their last games for Zambia.Let them learn.Believe me these boys can play Swaziland and get a good result.This is a team full of talent.
7 and 8 they are playing CAFAfrican Nations Championship CHAN 2009 qualifiers. the whole idea is to let the home based national team players play in a competition. Sending under 23 is not good enough this competition is as serious as the AFCON.The qualifiers will battle it out in Ivory Coast next year in January. FAZ would have done something about this. They have put all there brains and bums in the elections. shame
#6,this boy Kalaba was in an accident….flipped his new car man!!!Hope that injury an`t that bad we miss his services even at ZESCO FC.
The Mayuka Saga is now over, Buffaloes and warriors have resolved the contract problems. Buffaloes has cancelled the contract and Now Mayuka can play for Warriors
Heptor and Kay Thanks for the infor. i have been wondering. these boys are good and they need elderly advice. i read an article saying FAZ deregistered Mayuka.
Mbesuma must regain fitness quickly, otherwise age is catching up with him!
#9 Mwamoneni i know these are qualifiers for African Nations Championship.Which local players do you think should have been included in the team?
Kalaba is a good player but he lacks descipline. He needs to be counciled otherwise that talent will go to waste. This reminds me of the power dynamos pay master kellies Mwaba.
Zambia is run by clowns gents soon Kalu might be there,Vera is already there,you saw those defenders against camerown,i even saw phiri a master clown.I knew inonge was never going to be au whatever coz the muslim world are not ready to have a woman on top.lets be aware of clowns in zambia.too much of comedy.