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Emmanuel Amunike Appointed Coach of Zambia Super League Side, Zanaco FC

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Former Super Eagles Assistant Coach, Emmanuel Amunike has been appointed as the head coach of Zambia premier league side, Zanaco FC.

The ex-Nigeria international will be in Zambia to take over as the new head coach of the Super League giants.

Details of his contract are sketchy at the time of this report but the former Tanzania senior national team head coach will be on his way to the Zambia capital, Lusaka in the next few days to resume duty

Zanaco last won the MTN/FAZ Super League Division in 2016 and came second in 2021.

They lost their league match 1-0 at home on Sunday against Forest Rangers.

Amunike led Tanzania to break 39-year jinx after he qualified them for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON in Egypt.

He led the Nigeria U-17 Golden Eaglets to win the 2015 FIFA World Cup in Chile.

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    • What if they can’t do the job? This is actually selfhate cos you wouldn’t have complained had the coach been European. Like the xenophobic South Africans you don’t want other blacks.
      Selfhaters are what Biko called blacks who hate fellow blacks. They hate themselves so much they can’t see excellence in their kind. Only in the white slavemaster

  1. What if they can’t do the job? This is actually selfhate cos you wouldn’t have complained had the coach been European. Like the xenophobic South Africans you don’t want other blacks.
    Selfhaters are what Biko called blacks who hate fellow blacks. They hate themselves so much they can’t see excellence in their kind. Only in the white slavemaster

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  3. Rashidi Yekini Memorial – FIFA Remembers Him by robosky02(m): 2:40pm On May 04, 2016
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    The photo of the 58-time Nigeria international captivated the world and even today the former striker, who in 1993 was the first…

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