FAZ President Andrew Kamanga says it is unprecedented that Football House has been able to sustainably foot over half of the Chipolopolo coach’s salary.
New Chipolopolo coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic has yet to sign his contract due to a bureaucratic delay at the Ministry of Sports.
However, Kamanga said in a radio interview on Tuesday with Flava FM of Kitwe that FAZ was currently footing its 60 percent stake in Micho’s dues while Government has set aside US$10,000.00 for the coach’s monthly pay.
“I am actually surprised that you have not even mentioned that for the first time, the FAZ has committed resources to pay the national coach in addition to what the Government is paying so that ultimately if we were financially independent that is a matter that the FAZ should be able to address,” Kamanga said.
“That aside, that even now, within the limitations of what we have, we are able to contribute $15,000 to the coach’s salary is a good start.”
Micho was hired in February, 2020 and took charge of his first assignment on March 12 in Chipolopolo’s 1-0 friendly win over Malawi at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka.
But the momentum has been halted due to the Coronavirus pandemic that has forced all domestic and international competitive games to be postponed.
A good start? FAZ should pay the coach’s full salary. Its the minor sports that should be getting government support not a potentially lucrative sport such as soccer mwebantu. Athletics needs a coach. Rugby needs a coach. We want a coach in the Basketball team and we never receive government help. From a long time back FAZ is just a dumb organisation that doesnt know that it is sitting on a goldmine. I am very sure if we got a FAZ president from Europe the association would immediately start making big money. How come Denmark which has a smaller league, smaller population than us makes more money from football?
Why do you look for a foreign coach when you know your pockets are empty?
Credit should go to Kamanaga and his team. This is a job well done and quite commendable. This is the first time we have heard faz taking such a responsibility to foot 60% of the coaches salary. This means it wont be long before faz will no longer depend on GRZ for such support. This is the time to show those guys at the ministry that we can stand on our own. With such a measure its easy even to lobby for support from the cooperate world. Because they will see they are dealing with serious minded people. This is what happens when you uphold high levels transparency,accountability and eliminate corruption almost to zero. I know that those detractors are not happy to hear such news because they always want to ride on the failures of others. Though you hate Kamanga just swallow your…
Well done the Kamanga and congratulations to the hard working Kamanga executive for paying the coach without government input,with this gesture,Kalusha Bwalya should forget about ever bouncing back as FAZ President,instead he should concentrate on lobying in becoming a district commissioner for Mufulira.
FAZ should be boasting about qualifying us to World Cup and Afcon
This is not the time of signing a foreign coach when you know there will be no games played worldwide. Let this man go back and come back after the situation is normalized. I’m sure he won’t mind as he would also like to be with his family in his home country in times of crisis.
Well done Kananga and team, you have brought back sanity at football house after Galu and team vandalized everything there! Galu and his cohorts are blaming you for failure to qualify for Afcon! We can’t rule out that its Galu , Boniface Mwamelo and their cohorts that have been bribing men’s national team players so that they put in half effort, so that Kamanga’s team is accused of failure! Remember Mwamelo was banned for such illicit acts!
Well done Kamanga and team, you have brought back sanity at football house after Galu and team vandalized everything there! Galu and his cohorts are blaming you for failure to qualify for Afcon! We can’t rule out that its Galu , Boniface Mwamelo and their cohorts that have been bribing men’s national team players so that they put in half effort, so that Kamanga’s team is accused of failure! Remember Mwamelo was banned for such illicit acts!
Now you understand that you cannot get any under out from the state if you are stubborn and not in good terms with the government