Chipolopolo midfielder Enock Mwepu and Chambishi based business executive Chikabala Kaleta have organised the Changwe Kalale memorial youth football tournament to be held on Friday at Chambishi Rugby Club.
Former Zambia Under-17 star Kalale died last year after a spine injury sustained in a road accident in 2014.
He was travelling to Lusaka to join the senior national team camp when the accident occurred in Kabwe.
And Kaleta has told Radio Icengelo Sports in Kitwe that the memorial tournament will be an annual event.
‘Changwe Kalale was not only a football player but a hero for the people of Chambishi and society in general. His life needs to be celebrated,’ Kaleta said.
Kalale and his peers Mwepu plus Patson Daka led Zambia to a maiden Africa Under-17 Championship held in Niger in 2015.
‘Changwe’s existence in football has inspired many young people who are still playing even in his death,’ he said.
Kaleta added:’ Chambishi has got a very rich history of football as you know it has produced the likes of Webster Chikabala, Davies Phiri and Moses Sichone. That age had passed but another age had to rise which comprised Enock Mwepu and Changwe Kalale.’
Even Moses Chikwalakwala,Emmanuel Siwale,Maybin Chikwanda etc.
marubish the boy was a nothing in football and WHY SPONSOR SUCH A tornament , please better do ka memorial go ku grave yard lay wreaths ,clean the place help his family not kulionesha na tuma tornament twaupuba ATASE
Comment: you are very foolish and inhuman. how do you think so low . by the way, are they using your money to organise the tournament? foolish you.
I never knew people could be so heartless even towards a dead person, muntu wandi to hell with your hatred
Anyoko uli chipuba