Zesco United has moved ahead of the pack and introduced a self-imposed foreign player quota.
A lot of lip-service has been flying around over the last five years for FAZ to introduce a foreign quota especially in the first and second tiers following a flood of imported players in the league.
Zesco have now taken it upon themselves to lead the way with a five-foreign player quota cap.
“I wish to inform our strategic stakeholders, especially ZESCO United fans that we are mandated by the ZESCO United Football Club board to reduce the number of foreign players to five by the end of 2021. This process has already started as part of preparations for us to reach this target,” Zesco CEO Richard Mulenga told Zescounitedfc.com.
Mulenga gave the arrivals of Zambian internationals Bruce Musakanya from Red Arrows on a year -long loan and Kelvin Mubanga on a permanent deal as a free agent from Nkana as just the start.
“The club has put in place strategic measures to ensure that this process is executed smoothly. For example, Kelvin Kampamba was strategically brought in to ensure that there is cover in the midfield in case one of our midfielders left the club at the end of this year. Bruce Musakanya is another creative midfielder that the club recently signed to provide similar cover,” Mulenga said.
Zesco have also promoted two players from their youth team namely striker Enock Sakala Jnr and midfielder Kasoma Luwawa.
Meanwhile, Mulenga also announced the departure of Burundi midfielder Enock Sabumukama after three years at Zesco whom he joined from Le Messengers Ngozi.
Zesco is the most civilized team in Zambia. Even coaches don’t fight with fans.
Micho must go, those sexual allegations are bad for Zambian soccer.
We should enact a pact with fellow SADC countries such as the one the EU has. This would be concerning freedom of movement for workers, freedom of association, and Measures aimed at ensuring that football competition obeys the principle of fairness and openness . Football is an industry like any other so it should not have rules for only one neighbourhood
This quota system has a advantage when it comes to building a national team. At some point SA had trouble picking the national team when their league was flooded by foreign players. Whichever player the coach got interested in was found not to be South African. The coach got frustrated and went back to Brazil.
Kci you are full of lies. When was this? South Africa has had a quota system from 1992 when they were readmitted into world football. They allow each team to field five foreign players. SAFA has tried to change the rule but clubs have protested. Bafana’s first Brazillian coach who signed a R100 million contract for four years left because of family problems not because of frustrations with foreign players. He was succeeded by fellow Brazillian Joel Santana who was fired after two years. Parreira returned and even suffered a 3-1 home defeat to Zambia in 2007 AFCON qualifiers. He left after the 2010 world cup
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