Honour Janza has dropped Mukuka Mulenga while benchwarmer Emmanuel Mayuka is in the 12-foreign-based players called up for October’s 2015 Africa Cup Group F qualifying matches.
Mukuka is one of five players axed by Janza for Zambia’s forthcoming 2015 Africa Cup Group F qualifiers against Niger away on October 11 and at home on October 15.
Joining the 21-year-old Bloemfontein Celtic playmaker off the list are two other fellow PSL-based compatriots.
Striker Collins Mbesuma of Mpumalanga Black Aces and veteran defender Joseph Musonda from Polokwane City have also been dropped.
Also dropped are TP Mazembe striker Jonas Sakuwaha and midfielder Felix Katongo of Al Ittihad in Egypt.
Meanwhile, striker James Chamanga returns to the team for the first time since Zambia’s 2-0 friendly defeat against Brazil in Beijing on October 15, 2013.
However, Mayuka keeps his place despite not playing a single competitive game at Southampton this season and for Zambia in the Group F qualifiers.
The 12 players are expected to join camp in Lusaka at the end of this weekend where they will find the 17 home-based players enter camp on October 1.
Goalkeeper: Kennedy Mweene (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa)
Defenders: Emmanuel Mbola (Hapoel Ra’anana, Israel), Stopilla Sunzu (Sochaux, France), Kabaso Chongo (TP Mazembe,DR Congo)
Midfielders: Nathan Sinkala (Grasshopper,Switzerland), Rainford Kalaba, Given Singuluma (Both TP Mazembe), Chisamba Lungu (Ural, Russia)
Striker: Emmanuel Mayuka (Southampton,England), Christopher Katongo (Bidvest Wits,South Africa), James Chamanga (Liaoning Whowin, China), Jacob Mulenga (Adana Demirspor, Turkey)
MUCH AS WE APPRECIATE 2012 AFCON WIN, I STILL FEEL our so called professionals lishiana fye….i dont see any professionalism in some of these..the likes of mayuka, chamaga just to point out a few, li lucky fye. LET ME WARN JANZA IN ADVANCE,,PLIZ MAKE THESE SO CALLED PROFESSIONALS SUPPER SUBs OR if THE YOUNG LADS SCORE more 2 NIL IN FIRST HALF, NOT SUB UNLESS OTHERWISE, ESPECIALLY KATONGO, MAYUKA, CHAMANGA AND MULENGA. KATONGO PLAYED WELL AS SUPER SUB..I THINK ALL THSE BIG GUYZ SHOULD BE ABLE TO READY THE MUCH WHILST ON BENCH…BUT MUKUKA WAS SUPPOSED TO BE INCLUDED. TP MAZEMBE PROS ARE THE BEST WE HAVE SO FAR..VERY ACTIVE ESPECIALLY SPER KALABA…
Not Mukuka he has no match- fitness, Mayuka was supposed to be dropped also.
The problem is Kalu calls the shorts on which players to call to the national team.
Big lie. Kalu this Kalu that
Who is Honour Janza please advise me, is he the best of the current crop of coaches in Zambia or is there simply because he is a Galu puppet?
THAT’S WHY HE NEVER WANTED TO DO AN INTERNAL OR LOCAL ADVERT TO GET AN EXPERIENCED LOCAL COACH…HE JUST HAND PICKED SO THAT HE CAN HAVE AN INDIRECT COACHING ROLE..WE ARE TIRED OF YOU GREAT GALU!!! YASHANI KANSI BA!!! YO CONTRIBUTIONS ARE OVER LEKELENI KO BAMBI BAKAAMBA BA GALUU..
JANZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I reserve what I wanted to say!
I am a kalu supporter but over Janza I’m consistent. This is the wrongest coach Zambia could have chosen because he has no experience. Zambia needs an expatriate coach but in the absence of such Chansa wasn’t the man. He doesn’t have the credentials of Chicken George, Man fred Chabinga Masautso Mwale so why pick him? No serious national team has ever done this. Does Zambia want to compete with Djibouti, Fiji, and Cyprus or does it want to compete with Nigeria And Ghana? Bupuba fye
“I am a kalu supporter but …..”
And there you have it this is the selfsame reason why I call Zambian fans Zombies; they can see the elephant in they room but choose to ignore it!!
Iwe Jay jay there is no person who can be condemned roundly or even praised roundly unless your assessment has an agenda or is heavily biased. Those of us who went to university were always reminded of that.
The Percy guy above is a normal rational human because he see pluses and negatives in Kalu. You on the other hand are heavily jaundiced out of your extreme hate for Kalu so no sane mind can listen to you.
Lack of seriousness in our dealings.everything is like part time on people tasked with responsibilities sponsors alike.people, may I ask here, what are our expectations in this Afcon?
Emmanuel Mayuka (Southampton,England) Bench warmer, Christopher Katongo (Bidvest Wits,South Africa) bench warmer, James Chamanga (Liaoning Whowin, China) Chinese goods, Jacob Mulenga (Adana Demirspor, Turkey) I have respect for this guy,for me his too slow a striker kind of a Russian roulette his more an attacking midfielder.The rest of the squad is ok but the strike force looks as blank as the timer 50×50 brandering i bought from Buseko Market
JONZA PLEASE INCLUDE PLAYERS LIKE EVANS KANGWA, RONALD KAMPAMBA,ROGER KOLA AT THE STRIKING FORCE, NOT TO RELYING ON SAME RECYCLED PLAYERS
4 MUKUKA MULENGA its OK i like the young boy but i hate his local club ‘POWER’. Coming to the main issure i would like to see JANZA concentrate on home based young players.
You will prove me right this squad will not qualify on the basis that this coach chi copo he doesnt knw which players to use how to fuse the old and the new.he keeps listening to other pipo instead of doing his job by using his skills
Well said ZE MWILA, I have the same sentiments like yours. Uyu Janza lifutu (he knows nothing about football) and he doesn’t play his card right. A combination of twin strikers of Evans Kangwa and Sate Sate would be deadly for any team in group F. To my surprise he decides to use the usual off-form dudes. Yes, his performance replicates his looks, no wonder.
I hope Mukuka Mulenga has been dropped on medical bases, and not skill.
Good luck guys. Bola ni mucibansa, who new the greats could painfully lose 7-1 in the history of the great game?
Janza is a wrong coach for our team he does NOT know what to do Mayuka is a wrong player to appear in our team now he is not a factor anymore
Surely the likes of Chris K, Mweene, Chamanga (with due respect & appreciation) are beyond their prime; more less shelf life is gone. Much as we need experience in the team, we seriously need a fresh injection of young and fresh players. Look at the results of late……………..shambolic. Its great injustice to the team
Ba janza be serius can u call mukuka let him be supa sub even mbesuma.