Zesco United defender Billy Mwanza is out of danger after he was hit with a fire flare stick and injured on Sunday evening in the teams’ 1-0 loss to Al Ahly of Egypt in Cairo.
Mwanza needed four stitches on his arm after a flare hit his arm causing a 4 centimeter wound early in the second half of the Caf Champions League second round, return leg match.
Zesco club secretary said from Cairo that Mwanza who collapsed after he was hit by the flare was rushed to hospital where he was treated for his wound and later discharged.
Mumba said Zesco were lodging a complaint to Caf through their delegation leader George Kasengele over the incident.
Al Ahly supporters pelted the pitch with flares that left a thick plume of smoke over the stadium before the hosts scored the decisive goal in the 67th minute through midfielder Mohamed Barakat.
Its good that he is out but these guys should be burned.
I think these arabs must be punished by banning them. ZESCO must be allowed to go ahead in the competition even if they lost the game. Injuring a player in that way is punishable offence
What do u expect in Egypt with this arab tension going around. U are even lucky that nobody is dead. The attack obviously affected the teams performance and the key defender for that matter, was worse.Well congrats ZESCO it could have even been a bigger margin than that 1-0
I HOPE CAF WONT BEHAVE LIKE FIFA IN THIS CASE,WE NEED JUSTICE TO PREVAIL
The osama boys at work. They will pay for this
the problem is that in zed, we do not know how to effectively complain. this result should effectively be nullified and a replay ordered. remember how how we messed up the whole thing with diramba?
Ya, this is not good. What did the match official say? CAF is pro North African and complaints like this usually go nowhere! If it was a team from another region you would have seen them smoking out fire!
I dont know why ZESCO even continued playing this match. They should have just left. Let the game be abandoned and claim you couldnt play without your best player injured. CAF would have had no choice but to either disqualify the Egyptians or order a replay at a neutral venue with the Egyptians paying all the expenses for ZESCO. It has happened before in Egypt against Zimbabwe. These guys are violent. The replay was played in Europe and Zimbabwe qualified by vitual of a scoreless draw. But with Kasengele as delegation leader, it too much to expect anything positive.This is a straight case.
Zesco must appeal the result. That was intimidation and it affected all their players on the pitch. The game should be replayed in a neutral venue