Down goes Zambia once more again, what then is the problem

1. Most of the ZAMBIAN FOOTBOLLERS find themselves in the team accidentary.

2. As much as that review hurts, damn it’s true. Medicrity has been burned into our souls and we have become a pathetic, baseless, prideless, cultureless people with no verve to live. Just look at the political situation in our country right now with RB running government like a chicken run! What are Zambians doing about this? Nothing! We just complain & b*%# about it over a beer in the bars, on blogs, on the bus ride home and that’s it. You honestly expect our soccer team to be any more aggressive??? Please give me a break. let’s stop criticising the Chopopolo on poor performance and instead look at ourselves first! Disgusting…

3. Yes,in the above photos they all look defeated.

4. There was nothing much expected when you do not prepare adequately. Zambian National soccer team has not played players consistently.The technical bench is non existent the selection of players from weak premier league is pathetic (There is football in Division just watch).The worst part is that not every professional is upbeat more especially they are playing from non competitive leagues around the world including China. From FAZ there is no clear plan as to what they want to achieve apart from enriching themselves so my appeal is that, let us start to build a team for future by tapping talent from a broader base and stop the nonsense of allowing fake scouts on players wishing to play abroad.Lastly government should encourage private entities to take up sport in ZED.

5. The biggest problem is that non of the Zambian Football Players reads Lusakatime, they could have improved by now, WOZA SOCCER FANS. ZAMBIA KU AFRICA CUP, WE ARE BEHIND YOU GUYS.

6. Every face tells a story. The photo above says it all.

7. There is something to be said about BELIEF!!! If you don’t believe in your own abilities no one will!! Simple, end of story. Zambian football, and just Zambia in general, will only excel if we start believing in ourselves and in our own abilities to be the “architects” of our own destiny. It be in sports (football), economics, politics, business, extra. For as long as we keep pinning our hopes on our opponents to perform badly, we will always be disappointed.

   Football today has become very technical and business-like venture, which calls for adequate planning, serious and clear strategies, hard work, and dedication. Relying on LUCK is, simply put, ‘voodoo’ football—WE HAVE TO LEARN TO WORK AND PLAN FOR GLORY. As Americans would say, “there is no free lunch,…

8. Very good words of encouragement indeed. I personally have leant something from this. You have to make things happen as an individual. You dont have to depend on others always.

9. NIce one,bro.They say that if you want something done,then do it yourself.There’s this syndrome of entitlement in Zambia.Pwople think that they’re entitled to alot of things,but they dont want to work for me.For example,we have so many youths that cry for free education,but only to come and waste that opportunity when they’re given government sponsorship to study abroad.Most people also think that they’re entitled to good jobs after college and then the funny thing is where do you think those jobs will come from if the country is devoid of job creators.Why does it have to take a Chinese national to spot out the potential in our backyard and come to make money……….and the best we can do is cry like babies after poor salaries?You got to realise that no one is coming to better your…

10. I posted a comment on tuesday where I commented that for zambia to perform better we need to look at our system of doing things and that ‘we reap what we sow’. If we want to do well in sport and anything for that matter, we need to invest from the bottom up, this has to start with our children at home, in schools. If I may ask how many kids do you see playing chipombwa these days ?, very few. Most of the time they are busy watching TV and computer games. Just getting billions of kwacha for the national team will never qualify Zambia to big tornaments like the world cup. Am working on a plan to bring kids who show potential in football into schools as long they have certificates. This used to work before, we had school boys internationals. Expect results for this plan in 2018 world cup.

11. fresh memories of kelvin mutale have come. we had makinka, wizkid, hey eston mulenga yellowman, hmmmmmmmmmm, if only we can go back to the formula those boys used. and please when you find the formula dont travel outside zambia in one bunch coz the plane may crash again.

12. The formula is very simple, like someone above stated. We need to start working from bottom upwards and not the other way round hoping for some kind of luck to strike.

13. Even the attire tell s a story…players are supposed to be in dressed in the same attire thats why they are called a team. In some Countries failing to go to the world cup would mean heads rolling..but here its life as usual.

14. #13, it’s the fear of being hustled by angry fans after losing. I guess they feel much safer as they can easily mingle with the general public without being noticed.

15. We are never serious with the way we do things. Algeria had put in alot in terms of preparations against Zambia. That was the best the boys had to put in otherwise it would have been 5-0. The boys could not even shoot from afar all they wanted was to run with the ball into the net. Its better Algeria has gone through they deserve a place at RSA 2010 World Cup. Lets us admit our inadquancies. We are far from competing at the levels of World Cup. You cant win on arithematic calculations like City Ya Moto. Even our so called Super League, look at the goes being scored by Top Scorers, Very low. There is still alot to be done. It was even better watching a game between Chingola High Sch Vs Mwinilunga High Sch not ma rubbish ya National Team. Disband and start afresh.

16. Any meaningful Zambian would not want our team to go to the world cup. there is little investment and political will from all of us. Fire Kalusha bwalya & ask fifa to give us a break and start afresh. coz even the Africa Cup are u telling me that they will beat Algeria & Egypt there? when they cant beat them now?

17. The problem is with poor preparations. Kalusha too is to blame. Remember the London saga? Well, most of thse that made the first team against Algeria weren’t part of the team that played Ghana. They fielded students. Did the same students feature against Algeria?

18. Not long ago, Kalusha was preaching that for soccer in Zambia to develop to a meaningful level, FAZ and therefore footbal in Zambia must be run by people who talk football. Wenow have the same people that talk football runnning FAZ but what are the gains? My own view is that we will lose to Egypt when we next meet and Rwanda will not be easy to beat.

19. Looking at their faces they are the type that loose the match before the ball is even kicked. In fact they look like caddies not national team footballers.

20. I wouldn’t like to take away from Kalusha’s achievements as a player during his prime. We thought he would improve the game as a coach, considering his vast exposure in Europe and elsewhere. We are learning it the hard way. After a below par performance as Zambia National Team Coach, he pushed himself into soccer administration. Whence came a stream of bad performances. Besides coaching and soccer administration, how much exposure do our National Team players have before major tournaments? Surely, the COSAFA league featuring the likes of Tico Tico isn’t enough to fully expose our boys to competitive football. Even Bafana Bafana have realised that the only way to bring the best out of Teko Modise is to expose the lad to quality international players. Algeria is miles ahead in experience.

21. I agree with Blackface. I do not think the current crop of players has failed us. The coach and the players are fine and I believe are heading for a good future. Algeria is a big team. If your main goal was to qualify for the 2010 world cup then you were wrong and too ambitious. We should always gauge ourselves for every competition. Right now we are only CAN materials. Once we begin to compete favourably within our local league thats when we will start talking about world cup.

22. Blame it on Kalu and FAZ. They have messed our team up. The players look like kaponyas…uselesss. I put up an article on zampeople website about them. I am gutted. The next time they pick a team, they should go to UNZA, Evelyn Hone, Zamim and CB. Atleast those guys understand what a tactic and formula is..not these kaponyas. Useless over paid baboons

23. Someone may come from the closet and put up an argument, ‘but those days of Dickson Makwaza, Kapela Katumpa, Jani Simulambo, Ucar Godfrey Chitalu, Gentile, Great Kalu and the like, we used to beat big teams even from North Africa.’ Football has changed bwana! Did you watch Didier Drobga score two beautiful goals for Ivory Coast against Burkina Faso this week? My! my! my!

24. let the players start eating fufu,maybe they can have bigger bodies like the west africans

25. LT; let go of my comment, will you? D!ckson Makwaza is just a cool name.

26. While I agree with the with the article, I also wish to point out that our preparation has not been adequate. The goal minder only joined the team in Algeria. What do you expect from a one week stint in France. The teams that have achieved have had long histories of preparation. I pity the boys, they looked defeated but I think they tried their level best. You cannot fatten a cow on the market day. So untill we get serious with our preparations, we will always loose.

27. #10.Despite the loss to Algeria,I feel Zambia can still get a good result from Egypt.The only problem is that Rwanda will clobber us in Kigali.I watched the Rwanda vs Egypt game and the Egyptians were very,very lucky to win that game.You could see the relief in their faces when the game ended.
    With the world cup dream shuttered,Zambia still has to work extra beat Rwanda and Egypt.Otherwise this whole campaign will bear no fruits.

28. All the chipolopolo defence players are foolish. in our time, when strikers don’t score we did not allow any goals.They allowed two goals in Chililabombwe and one in algeria . I watched your rubbishness up to 01:00hrs at night without sleeping and you think i am happy. Sometimes FAZ try to be serious. why do you hate Chintu Kampamba ? remember how well he played at the last africa cup.Jacob Mulenga and Chis Katongo i do not need you any more in our team and thank you.Kalu why can’t you fire that white mulamu of yours before we fire you?..

29. I think the boys did the best. As zambians we always talk as thought we are the likes of Cameroon, Ghana, Egypt and Ivory Coast plus other strong teams. The simple fact that we wanted so badly to qualify for the world cup does not give us the access on a silver platter. One thing we must be thankful about is that we have a very good coach. Lets have a plan. What is our five year plan for instance?

30. The nail has been precisely hammered on the head! Well said Derrick! Zambia only wins by chance but the fans get excited and believe Zambia is a great team. Oh my foot! We are one of the worst teams on the continent! If we were that good we would have beaten Algeria! The only team that we can boast about is that of 1974, when Zambia played the Zaire Leopards in the
    Africa Cup in Cairo.That year the cup would have been ours but CAF blundered and we lost . Soccer fans, please stop this foolish excitement about our national team, you are only making them worse!

31. We still give you our support courage bane. Mwasakulako imishishi bane wee.

32. Zambia needs to start over!! First of all we desperately need to admit that we do have a problem and then figure out how to sort it out. Winning should not be based on hope…hope can only materialise if a fair amount of sacrifice has been invested!! What investment have we seen go into the sports provision? Whats our sports vision for the next10/20yrs? We have no strategy………..no plan, no direction!! Look at the guys in the picture above. These guys are being blamed for their poor performance yet, they can only do their best. It’s not only the players at fault here…but a chain of incompetent sports administrators aswell!!

33. Very true indeed.The picture tells the whole story about our players.

34. look all you chaps!soccer in Zambia is treated like a hobby,too much influence from vima politicians,stealing monies poor living conditions of the entire team(s),can anyone honestly think if you look at Mamelodi Sundowns in SA player’s conditions compared to ours we are still in the woods,Algeria is superior in may ways,they have high standards of play,discipline,pay conditions living conditions,even when our boys meet these guys they play on our weak psychos,we are first mentally deafeated the physically on the pitch,so all of us who think we can perform ‘wonders’ you are in dream zone WAKE UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

35. ZAMBIA SHOULD BE BALL-BOYS AT 2010 AND WATCH REAL MEN PLAY SAC!!!!!!!!!!!

36. enough is enough what we need now a german style football skills,a coaching team of three,

    one for goalkeeping,one for fitness,one for system and tactic,we are a great football nation and dont deserve such humiliation,we need a coaching staff that is able understand the mentality of our nation and our players,

37. Thanks for the words we can indeed rise from rugs to richies!

38. I think we just don’t have quality players.

39. a person can only be as ambitious to the limits he’s been exposed to.however working to reach those limits does not mean they will stop him from exceeding them.the furthest your sight can see is the horizon but with each step you take towards it,though you do not realise it,the horizon gets further and further for you i.e expands,as they love to say “expand your horizons!” the only way to expand your horizon is to move toward it.the author talks about people who created facebook,firefox and the like.ask most of those people if they ever thought they would get as big as they are today,the’ll probably tell you”no!”.

40. Palibe analysis apa ba LT. If this is what you call analysis no wonder we wont solve our problems. Sikelemi (10) writes better than the writer of this hogwash. For example how do you conclude that the Algerians were more superior? In what aspects? Tell us. Because they didn’t rely on the referee? Come on guys lets have some logic in whatever we write.

41. Despite what it is said on this page, and as an Algerian I found that Zambia football team a tough adversary, especially the game played in Algiers. This is football and it’s difficult sometimes to find the right combination for a wining team! everybody knows that it takes more than just skilled individuals, and politics shouldn’t play any role in sports as such! We in Africa tend to mix everything and try to justify the unjustifiable! a wining team is not a mirror of how politicly stable is a country! I wish Zambia team future success and as the author of this article pointed out, “Life is about taking risks and having a positive attitude to propel you to high heights” Best Regards

42. Hey guys that is why its called a GAME, CONTEST,FIGHT,CLASH which requires great effort and i mean great EFFORT and that attempt or sweat should and does not come over night,it needs a well defined VISION which will include the MISSION statement which the team should understand every time they put on national colors, at least am able to see for the first time the openness of our coach cause he said it that he,s plans is to take the team to CAN but the question, is THE TEAM ABLE TO MOVE WITH HIM or…. You can finish pls good day

43. i believe that one day kakabalika GO ZAMBIA GO

44. The guys on the picture do not look as footballers.Football is no longer about skills.”Brain football” i call it is to day s game.In the pitch, you simply finish what you started in the dressing room.We need good football academies from under 7 years.Pa zed people discover on there own that they can play when they about 12 years, i know you will argue that Kalusha did it that were but believe it or not in this computer world these are changing and very fast.We have skill but now we got to add intelligeth at early stages if we are to compete out side zambia.

45. If 1964 was point Zero we have worked so hard that we are on Negative 1000.The average Zambian has Zero confidence, No dreams and no vision. You can see this in our leaders too by the way they behave, talk and conduct themselves.I believe that there is some light at the end of the tunnel, the problems is that the tunnel is 150 year long.

46. Its really the attitude !! Zambian football players are not serious !!

47. That was pure comedy,guyz can’t even kick a ball,those comedians(zambia soccer team) will surely rank number 1 on the funniest soccer clips chart

48. U ar wasting tax payers money. It’s beta we invest that money in agriculture. Naku African Cup mwikayako, muleonaula indalama bafikamba fyenu. U think we take any pride in winning COSAFA?

49. FAZ is to blame.

    History:
    Zambia National football team did very well under good soccer administrators [The likes of David Phiri, Michael Mwape, Tom Mtine, Haniff Adams etc]… remember we used to wear copper and black consistently – away? even at home?

    Present:
    The Chipolopolo are doing badly. We don’t have good soccer administrators in former players Emmanuel Munaile, Kalusha Bwalya etc …we wear green or white … forced by Nike or some imitation nike Marketing Co. or is it because it would not be profitable ‘for them’ to make copper/black jerseys! or it’s because Zambia would look too powerful for the rest of the world! We have lost our heritage FAZ, NSCZ and the Ministry in Charge, wake up.

    Bottom line is we are lacking proper planning and foresight. Kalu…

50. kalusha must resign

51. Something has gone wrong in zambia in every department not only soccer. We need come together as a nation and see where we went wrong and reconcile one to another before it is too late. We need to do the Moses\ way of searching who the causer of their lose to a small is, until Akan was fishered out. Then they had to prosper again over their enemies. Even the way we have dealt with some of the former leaders???? It may sound unfavourble but….anyway!

52. Why do we expect our national team to be good when we are not good in jobs. For instance the journalist who wrote this article. “Down goes Zambia once more again, what then is the problem”.  Is this English?

53. We are simply a batch of i-dio-ts as a country. The only time a Zambian is aggressive if when he is beating his wife under the influence of beer. We can all be unhappy but put up with it, talk about it in buses and bars. We are all lazy, with no confidence .Wonder why we go out to compete and only expose our disgusting culture of living to the world. Thank God we have never gone to the world cup we could make history as the first team to loose 9-0.What have we ever done well -the poorest, the most AIDS hit lots, now the most brainless leadership. Zambia shall be saved.

54. I totally agree with the author . Zambians are mostly apathetic and passive, we call it peace and justify for lack of the competitive spirit that seeks excellence. There is no fighting spirit or attitude to excel. I dont iknow if anyone was listening to General Miyanda campaign to lead the country . He used to talk about the broken spirit of the nation. I think thats what this author has well articulated.Having grown up in Zambia and invested my talents in the country I love, I have come to the conclusion that its a spiritual problem were success is mourned rather than celebrated, desired rather than aimed for, subotaged rather than built up. truthfully speaking ubwina Zambia ia synonimous with stone aged strategies for living. Blame the ‘Ubwana nyina’ concept from founding fathers.

55. the problem is….the problem is..all we have is just full of problems,n i think we cant blem no one,fans only complains nga chakubaba so much enda ndiwe muku teya,,support the team talk to the goverment,

56. all we got is us

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