Lwandamina snubbed an anxious bunch of reporters during a scheduled post-practice briefing at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka.
The Zambia coach is still steaming following the leaked final 2016 CHAN team list that was slashed in the dailies on Tuesday before he could drop the bad news to his axed players.
“The coach said he will not speak today,” was all Football Association of Zambia spokesperson Nkweto Tembwe could say after all was set including the sponsors backdrop all rolled out for Lwandamina.
Lwandamina has had his fair share of journalistic skirmishes especially at post-match briefings shooting down questions he feels are either unpalatable, wrongly addressed or phrased.
Meanwhile, Zambia leave for South Africa on Friday for a short camp and where they will face Angola in a friendly on Sunday on their way to Rwanda who will host the CHAN tournament from January 16 to February 7.
Zambia are in Group D at the CHAN finals where they will battle Zimbabwe, Mali and Uganda.
Chipolopolo will play Zimbabwe in the two sides’ opening Group D match on January 19 before taking on Uganda in their penultimate game on January 23 and will play Mali on January 27.
This is another clear evidence of no standard procedures laid out at FAZ, the press love them or hate them but they are your tool to promote your merchandise freely and boost sales…but who can this manager as he has no contractual obligations everything is done in the bar or take away with the Galu.
*…but who can blame this manager…
Zambia is centrally located and as such the hospitality industry could have taken advantage of this to offer conference and sports training facilities for various visiting teams. Isn’t it awkward that teams have to travel all the way to south africa from the north east and west to then connect back to a west african venue for a tournament? Ba ministry of trade and commerce coupled with tourism can’t you strategies business opportunities like this for entrepreneurial citizens?