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Roger Kola in South Africa

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Former EduSport Academy FC and ZANACO player, Roger Kola (19) has been signed by Golden Arrows of South Africa. Kola’s move to Golden Arrows was today confirmed in an interview with EduSport chairman, Oscar Mwaanga. Mwaanga emphasized that “Kola’s move to Golden arrows is a short term move aimed at giving Kola time to consolidate his prolific scoring abilities before he moves to Helsingborg”. Kola is expected to join his new Swedish club, FC Helsingborg after his loan spell at Golden Arrows.

Unlike recent media stories reporting that Kola has sneaked out to attend trials in Sweden. Mwaanga said that Kola has had his soccer career set by securing his future with one of Sweden’s big clubs, FC Helsingborg who has put him on a short loan at South Africa’s Golden Arrows. Kola’s signing with Helsingborg FC automatically meant that he was ineligible to play in the CHAN tournament which is exclusively for local based players.

Mwaanga further said that Kola has played for EduSport Academy team since he was 14 years and has been nutured by the little known yet successful Zambian’s youth coach, Dickson Chuungu; who also coached and developed the likes of Fwayo Tembo (Tunisia), William Njobvu (on trial in Europe), Justine Zulu (Israel), and Hichan Himononde (defender national team) and other players featuring for the junior national team.

87 COMMENTS

  1. Isn’t this the reason why the French Coach is mad!! All the creme de la creme is out!! How will the coach build up a time. with Ifisoso?

  2. 22 minutes gone still 0:0, Elijah Tana best zambian player so far. Fat Boy Mbesuma misplacing paces, but looks good on the ball. Zambia have not managed a shot on target so far

  3. # 12,soccer fan no 7,oh you are blogging from the stadium thats cool keep on updating us just make sure that the ball shouldnt hit on the computer screen coz ninshi yakosa ifye we wont be having first hand info :d/

  4. Well Zambia is really being outplayed and a great save from Kennedy Mweene. The Zambian defence is working overtime. Midfield dead..front line, don’t even go there. 40 minutes gone and no shot on or off target from Zambia. No wonder we dont’s score ..

  5. HALF-TIME: 0 -0. I don’t see Zambia scoring, they are playing like they travelled to get a draw. Am off to do something else, the match is not exciting and not worth watching. Predication South Africa 2: Zambia 0. Zambia are playing like a team without purpose. Am out of here

  6. Why dont we try iciyenga,Iciyato pa zed,pantu soccer kwati yatukana mwe.The chaps baleipantawilafye.Or we can do other games like kapula matanta,touch,akabwabme. :-j:-j:-j:-j:-j:-j

  7. soccer fan no 7.thanx a span my bro, you are a true patriot.a lot of guys down there have ignored this much.but i can’t blame them because some can not afford to stomach the embarrsment of watching those clowns parading themselves there as the zambia national team.no wonder ndeipanika.ndefwaya zoona ukubwesha skill muchibansa.by the way who is there as coach now that long nose is on a boycott.please send me your contact so that i get in touch we discuss
    My role on the field and when i should start.i want sana sana egypt or cameroun

  8. 75 minutes gone SA 1: Zambia 0. Zambia totally outplayed and if SA was a good team we would be 5-0 down. No plan to get the ball to strikers at all..and guys here is the funny one ..they just showed Kalusha sitting next to Macha Chilemena, and boy you should have seen the excitement of Macha to see himself on a big screen, he even waved big time with a smile from ear to ear oblivious of the useless performance of the team on the pitch. That is FAZ executive for you guys

  9. kola in south africa,these chaps of nowadays are so desparate that they can go to any country just to make a name that they are professionals.next time you will hear kola is in timbuktu, or kola is in darfur. It’s total agony.now the golden arrows in south africa aren’t they just like our nkwazi.ukupusana fye kwa fyalo. at least even at nkwazi you are guaranteed of a permanent jod with benefits as a cpo

  10. Jamaco,

    Namunjelela ka! these guys kuti pakwipaya na high blood pressure.I have alot of thinks to think about.Abana,Abakashi,abeshikulu isikulu na bola yapa Zed awe kuti wapena. :-j:-j:-j:-j

  11. MAT PLS WATCH THE FOLLOWING

    Chiluba looks like a baby Tiger!! (ON THE OTHER THREAD)

    He reminds me of w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CMtVFtqd0

  12. FULL TIME : SA 1 Zambia 0. As I said I didn’t see this team scoring at all and if this is the team we are sending to Ivory Coast, Katwishi. Good luck guys ..get bonse ba pente to pray 48 hrs a day if you want to make it past the first round with this team. I love Zambia but I don’t like what am seeing. By the way, SA featured their locally based players as well

  13. #32 tawakwata amano. How can compare Nkwazi and Golden Arrows. Check their website and see how the club is managed. Why are you not in Kalingalinga yourself. You are in Namibia and telling your friend to be at Nkwazi. Voca tumone.

  14. zambian players never go far because they lack discipline.i hope this will be addressed by the coaches nurturing these young men. **==**==**==

  15. Thats what we get with kalu and his ##$#@!%$% adminstration.

    Fire Monsieur Renard ASAP!!! ~X(:o
    kwasala ku luza kuli seychelles

  16. Please mwebantu have hope for Zambia, kola is only 19 yrs and he has made his trials, why cna’t we be encouraging. This is the Zambian poor mentality; why zambian are losers. All of you chaps; big losers. What have you ahcieved compared to other country citizens

  17. Bafana edge out Zambia
    Super sport 3
    27 January 2009 (22:32)

    Bafana Bafana got 2009, and their preparations for the Confederations Cup in June, off to a winning start when they defeated Zambia 1-0 in a friendly international played at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Tuesday night.

    Bafana have now stretched their winning record to five matches and overall there were a lot of positives to come out of the match.

    Kaizer Chiefs winger Siphiwe Tshabalala was outstanding and grows in confidence with every game for club and country.

    …..

  18. Soccer fan # 7 you’re a true fan and I personally appreciate the live update please keep it up thank you. As for Galu (Kalu) and his bull s*#t white trash he calls a coach I don’t any kind words for running our football standards to the ground. I still cant get the idea of our FAZ president residing in SA and running Zambia’s priced sport. Please remove these bastards for ruining our soccer.

  19. ka #36 elo namona amalushi yobe ka mwana mala yambi.now what do you want to tell us about golden arrows.is the website going to convince me about about their standard of play.it’s an act of desperation on the part of a footballer to be jumping from one mediocre team to another. If these chaps can be a little bit patient and wait for a big platform to show their worth.they can make it.CHAN will be a big platfoam now because of idiocy this ka chap will miss it.how many players of late have been poarched from the south african league into any league in europe? That’s why because ot twits like you these boys will always be chasing a mirage.

  20. We are really feeling up players in Kangaroo leagues. Atase, So fi Zambia lost 1 – 0. Well well if you want to suffer from erational disfanction, watch the Chipolopolo boys Play. Malabishi. For Kola I wish the Boy can go to a bigger team. I tell you the boy might rot at Goldenballs, or sorry Golden Arrows. This is a trap, I have never heard of an agreement between the swedish team and G.Arrows (to laon the Players in South Africa)??. I smell a very big fat rotten dead COW not a rat, too small.

  21. Roger collar most likely is not 19yrs. he could be 22. The coach has added little value in my view to the team since he came.Kalusha was a good footballer but i doubt his leadership.

    South Africa simply has no talent. They are so bad as to just score 1 goal.

  22. Irrespective of the results ifwe chipolopolo
    Zambia left behind good players from Zesco United and red arrows who are enganged in continental competitions,other locals are also attending trials in Europe.It is gross to blame a team C .The truth is Bafana bafana cannot match chipolopolo first squad. I dont think the match qualified to be an international cap coz it does not meet some of the requirements.

  23. Zambian football is useless and frustrating coz hv never been impressed tu ka fisalefye so that we constrate on other sports we are good at like boxing, modeling, ichiyenga, standi and chindunu

  24. the game zambia played last night was pathetic.i do not see us going
    somewhere.south africa 1 zambia 0.i now believe that zambia f##king pis of kurk

  25. #32 read the story before you comment. Kola has not signed for Golden Arrows. He has signed for Helsingborgs of Sweden where Chansa plays his trade, but they want Kola to have a South African feel first before he finally joins them. A lot of teams in the world have such arrangements. Read before you comment

  26. Re: Zambia 0 : South Africa 1
    Greeting to all Zambian soccer fans,
    Is that the time we going to send to Africa cup next month?
    Before we worst tax payers money,we don’t need that time people of Zambia.
    We don’t have strikers at moment,the only player who saved our time was Kennedy Mweene.
    Our defenders, they played very badly
    Mr Coach do something please, take a team which will perform well.
    Don’t let the FAZ excutive control you.
    Do what is right!

  27. Kalu and his boys should resign, Period. I am sure all those who voted for him are now regretting. Hanif Adams could have done a far greater job. Here we are now licking our own A.S.S.E.S due to our own prejudicial rhetoric

  28. The sooner we get rid of travellers at football house the better. Kalu and team is not doing us any good. Football administration is totally different from kicking free kicks.

    Kalu can you step down before your name changes from (great kalu to great galu).

  29. Congrats Bafana Bafana, at least you are always improving by the day. As for Zambia it shall remain a dream coz we have missed a golden opportunity of playing at the world cup in our own SADC back yard.

  30. ka #60,piss off. Dont you know that i have read and i have got the info that this boy has been duped.you are too sleepy to know kalusha’s machinisations.so remain backwards it’s up to you.so be observant and see if that little boy will leave that dungeon, and personal advise revisit your civic am not in namibia.

  31. Luapula Fish #62 Naunfwa emochilolele, I am born and bred in Ndola and English speaking has never been an issue in my life . After all, I am totally speaking a very different language in this part of the world i have found myself all together. So for me its communication and not really impressing people with the jolly words of the English language. Naunfwa Luapula bilimu ( Fless fiss mulya fimina)

  32. Mr DICKSON CHUUNGU, YOU HAVE DONE AS PRIDE! BUT THESE GUY’S KHU FAZ YOU TELLING ME THAT YOUR C V IS NOT YET UP TO DATE?
    PLZ CAN SOMEONE HEALP OUT SOMEONE IS PULLING HIM DOWN UHKO KHU FAZ!!
    GO KHU NORWAY THEY THINK THAT HE IS COACHING A PREMIER LEAGUE!
    BUT WHY PA ZED?
    BA DICK ZOZO WISHING YOU THE BEST,COZ I HOPE BA ZA BAUZAKHO BA FAZ MWANDI TALEMA MWAPANGA MA PLAYER’S SO MANY TO MENTION BUT NO ONE SEEM’S TO APPREASIATE.
    MAN MUZA.

  33. # 62, we kapondo. Have you read the story iwe. Kalusha has no hand in Kola’s move. The EduSport chairman said it and you turn around twisting things. You even compare Nkwazi to Golden Arrows and say that it is better to retire as a cop. Do you know how much players get a Golden Arrows. Do your home before you speak rubbish.

  34. I hope the sport academy will not mess up the boys career but they should have waited a bit after the CHAN games. These are guys who killing Zambian soccer, when the boys are needed. these so called agents/managers sneak out the players for trials. It all starts from FAZ executive. NSCZ ba Dr and Gen. C crack the whip.Its to much mischief in FAZ and the managers.Kalu and group stop disregarding NSCZ authority they act because they are a legal body by Parliament. Guys at FAZ go back to basics. You not above the law. FIFA does not our Laws. Rushing to FIFA for what if your never breached the regulations as written in Black & white. Teddy & group were mature and wish they were retained.

  35. Chip Khu – you can also try to say sometime postive to the hardworking edusport academy for the job which they do at great sacrifice; just remember how long they have been with these boys (age 14); taking them school and mentoring them – this tough work. Personnally I’m proud of them coz we need more Zambian like EduSport people. These are the people doing something for Zambia not just cheap talkers. Country (and football) are built form action not cheap critics.

  36. ZIMZAM, how can i stop speaking rubbish when cretins like you an KA CHIKUNI are till poping up exhibiting those dangerous levels of ignorance.you are wapped.will that Edusport man tell you when he has received a cut.that man is just a pawn in the game the architects with influential contacts in south africa are known.unless these guys at football house come out clean on these murky transfers that have been taking place we’ll always be treating them with suspicion
    and what is there to speak about golden arrows.tell me what their budget is like?
    Mwana viva nkwazazi is better of that that ka team that my not even withstand
    the economic crunch when it bites.

  37. Akapondo, it seems you know so much about football ka. I will just wait until things take shape and then I will hit back on you. By the way I work with facts not suspicion like you. You must be as useless as Nkwazi officials, abena Kaunda, Oslward Mutapa and the rest who have taken Nkwazi so low. Research please and the next time you answer back you must have facts.

  38. ka CHIKUNI,you are one ka hell of a smart dunderhead. Keep warming your balls and see weather that kola boy will go to Helsingborgs.FAZ has been invaded by crooks,gamblers. Which sleepy twits like you can’t notice. Helsingborg is a big team in sweden why didn’t they second him to a seasond team in europe with the similar envirolment to theirs but to south africa and worse still an obscure team like Golden arrows.and what facts do you want from me?the only fact i have for you is that you are better off playing for viva nkwazazi than the othe comical team
    .billy mwanza is back from the same team.no investment no nothing.

  39. Akapondo#77 you are as useless as your name tells.You are good for nothing but verbal polomya. You dont understand the ideas behind Helsingborgs move to have Kola have a feel of South Africa first. Sometimes its not worth it to take someone straight from the dusty Kalingalinga/Zanaco grounds to the state of the art stadiums in Europe. There is need for a gradual process to be considered, so as to help the player psychologically and socially in terms of fitting into new situations quite different from the usual. So this maybe the thinking behind the move.Give EduSport,Zanaco and Helsingborg a plus for the smart move in the development of soccer in Zambia.

  40. # 78, Thanks for pumping simple pysocological and physiological applications common in sport. This Akapondo boy thinks he is very smart and yet he does not even know that Golden Arrows and Helsingborg are like sister clubs. Thats why I asked you, Akapondo to do some research. If Billy Mwanza failed to save while at Golden Arrows does not mean everyone will come out poor. Dennis Lota is one good example who also failed to save while at Orlando Pirates and I guess with your simple thinking you would say Nkwazi is better than Pirates. Ikaka too much. Upambene Akapondo just like your name. Lets talk smart next next and not using juggles.

  41. Akapondo, for once I agree with you that FAZ is full of “crooks,gamblers” as you put it. Thats the reason why I am trying to educate you that FAZ is not involved in this transfer. Thanks for the tip of warming my balls, it’s actually very cold here lol. Where ever you are keep them hanging.

  42. iwe chikuni, akapondo nakatuma ama hench men bakwe aba ku durban balegeta data pakali team kobe ka lamontville golden arrows nomba naishupako panono
    Pantu kaba mukomboni,Nomba nga naukeshiba akapondo kanshi ninshi nawishiba efyokashupa.so sense danger.

  43. We kapndo, naufilwa fye. Kuuvoka nga tamukwete data. Kuti nakweba ifingi ine nga waipusha bwino. Abena Kalu nanomba balifulwa pamulandu wa ka Kola ukuya before game naba SA.

  44. :o:o:o:o Hallo sidene anonymous ,ndine kuno Roger mufana nikamba ati ukatekanye sana ku South,not kulapitanapitana mu Joberg:o:o:o

  45. Roger just a reminder please dont forget were you are coming from look at abena Cosmas Banda and like so take care if you come back i want to have a word with you.wish you good lucky and please start scoring goals for your club.

    The big from Kalingsdel.

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