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

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

  2. Rashidi Yekini Memorial – FIFA Remembers Him by robosky02(m): 2:40pm On May 04, 2016
    On Friday 4 May 2012, at the age of 48, Rasheed Yekini passed away after a brief but serious illness. Nigeria’s record goalscorer (37 goals) ensured his name went down in the history books when he scored the Super Eagles’ first ever FIFA World Cup™ goal at the 1994 finals in the USA in the 3-0 group stage win over Bulgaria.

    FIFA.com looks back on his memorable goal and subsequent celebration. Yekini who played for several clubs in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Switzerland, could hardly believe he had scored and spontaneously grabbed the net, shaking it in celebration.

    The photo of the 58-time Nigeria international captivated the world and even today the former striker, who in 1993 was the first…

  3. Rashidi Yekini Memorial – FIFA Remembers Him by robosky02(m): 2:40pm On May 04, 2016
    On Friday 4 May 2012, at the age of 48, Rasheed Yekini passed away after a brief but serious illness. Nigeria’s record goalscorer (37 goals) ensured his name went down in the history books when he scored the Super Eagles’ first ever FIFA World Cup™ goal at the 1994 finals in the USA in the 3-0 group stage win over Bulgaria.

    FIFA.com looks back on his memorable goal and subsequent celebration. Yekini who played for several clubs in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Switzerland, could hardly believe he had scored and spontaneously grabbed the net, shaking it in celebration.

    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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