There is strong speculation that George Lwandamina will be unveiled as Zesco United coach over the next 24 hours.
Sources have said the deal is sealed to bring the former Red Arrows coach to Ndola and is expected to start work after the Zesco Directors football tournament that will be held in Lusaka from Thursday and into the weekend.
The development will see current coach Tenant Chembo relegated to Lwandamina’s first assistant coach while Alfred Lupiya will assume the second assistant position.
Chembo has been in charge since January, 2013 after taking over in an interim capacity following the departure of Wedson Nyirenda after he was handed a lucrative deal by Mozambique club HCB Songo.
He was later handed the job on a substantive roll in June after some impressive results and eventually led Zesco to a second place finish behind Nkana.
However a litany of winless results, five of them in 2014 pre-season friendly’s, that culminated in a 2-1 defeat in the Charity Shield semi-finals loss to Red Arrows on February 1 have forced management to bring in Lwandamina.
Lwandamina has been linked with the Zesco job since mid-January after he was suspended from coaching duties at Arrows for alleged poor performance despite winning the Lusaka club the 2013 Barclays Cup and a top four finish.
Sounds better, Zesco is a big team needs a big coach
BA RED ARROWS YOU THOUGHT LWANDAMINA HAD NO VALUE,NOW U SEE.
Lwandamina welcome to Ndola, we need a better coach than Tenant Chembo. He has to learn from “Chicken” and he too will be a very good coach in future. Its like giving mighty ManUtd to a “small” Moyes!!! Go Lwandamina go…
Dont compare Chembo to Moyes. Chembo is far much advanced than that MoreYears
George you are more than welcome at zega we want pipo like u who can produce good results, its only that pipo doesnt appreciate you contributed a lot to Zambian football.
so namu zambia emofyaba ifyaso, i thought it only happens in EPL
Morning Soccer Lovers in our beautiful Country Zambia.My question is this.Are we going to continue firing Coaches in Zambia after certain poor performance of Team?When you are in an exam room,when you fail the exams are you going to blame your Teacher or yourself?The Teacher and the Coach are one and the same.One the Teacher is not writing the exams for you and that goes with the Coach.The Coach merely add input to your mental strength while you are on the field of play.
Secondly poor investment in Teams also contributes to poor performance.PLEASE LEAVE THE COACHES ALONE FOR THIS YEAR 2014 WE WANT TO MOVE A STEP AHEAD IN ZAMBIAN FOOTBALL.
People, George was not fired by Arrows. He was put on administrative leave for refusing to play in the Charity Shield, claiming that the team was not ready! All efforts to convince him otherwise proved futile and in the end the issue got so heated that the coach became insurbordinate saying he was a highly trained coach who could not bend to the whims of non footballers (the executive)!! One got an impression that he just wanted to get fired! Arrows were magnanimous enough to give performance as reason for the suspension. George is indeed a good coach, but has problems with discipline. He was fired from Worriors and Buffaloes for disciplinary reasons. Arrows is a military team and discipline is cardinal. Good luck to him at Zesco. We can only wait to see if the team will stomach his indisc