Herve Renard has said the door is open for midfielder William Njobvu & defender Francis Kasonde to return to his CHAN team after their deal to join Armenian champions Pyunik Yerevan fell through.
However, Renard will be without defender Emmanuel Mbola of division 1 north club Mining Rangers who is set to agree terms with Pyunik after a two-week trial spell with the former Soviet republic club whom he has accompanied to the UAE on a pre-season training camp.
Kasonde of Power Dynamos and Njobvu from Lusaka Dynamos are both due back home on tomorrow, Saturday after their respective clubs rejected deals with Pyunik.
Renard said after Friday mornings training session in Lusaka that it was sad that 17-year-old Mbola was signing with Pyunik because he had hardly played any high-level football in the local league for more than two years.
All three players have missed the first two weeks of Zambia’s CHAN training camp that left Renard fuming at the lack of commitment for the inaugural tournament exclusively for home-based players to be hosted by Cote d’Ivoire from February 22 to March 8.
Mbola makes the quantum leap to Europe from division 1 north football with his move to the minor former south-eastern Soviet republic enclave straddled between Iran and Russian.
“He (Mbola) is too young and only 17 years old and has never played in the Zambian premier league,” Renard said.
“He has not been playing for the national team for a long time and I think it is a mistake for him to sign with a club like that.”
Mbola made his Zambia debut against Angola in a CHAN qualifier on December 13 at Konkola Stadium in Chililabombwe that Renard’s side won 1-0 to qualify 3-1 on aggregate to the tournament.
He went on to receive three more caps with Zambia at the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup held in Uganda in January.
Mbola had prior to his move to Armenia had also been linked with 2-time league champions Zanaco.
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Ya let this muzungu belela do his homework well, otherwise without proper results ,then we have to impeach him 😕
=))muzungu belela … I am with Mo taim
No kind of magic or miracle will save our Chipolopolo boys from being embarassed at the CHAN. But go there and do your best in terms of not being well organised.
4seke
Our national team is a disgrace.We were such a good team.Where did we lose it?.
join hands and find good idears go 4ward
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Morning bloggers!!
Morning Renard!! :d
all da best
Is Mbola really 17 years??? 😕 all the good luck to him :d no hard feelings:)
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yes he is 17 years old (football years)
i wouldnt be suprised if he had a ten year old child. :)):)):d/
You give the guy pumpkins, and you expect him to make you a Potatoe Salad! Cut him some slack.
Rule no. 1: Ba Maureen is always right. Rule no. 2: If Ba Maureen is wrong, apply rule no. 1
not always on here like others cos i got better things to do than looking for fame on a blog.
Any,good results comes only after hard working…there´s no other mystic way to go about it
not always on here like others cos i got better things to do than looking for fame on a blog.
Any way,good results comes only after hard working…there´s no other mystic way to go about it
Kapala ale lya fye ichipompo ! No results up to now.
#11, Mbole is not 17. I know the man. He is 21 now. I was at school with him. Am doing uni now and he dropped out.
Today seems to be quite rough, yaba!!! The whole day, no ka new story and we are almost going to bed now here. LT tell us what happened at SUPREME COURTS yesterday where Police fought running battles with PF cadres.
Don’t worry about Mbola’s age. Most West African’s applies -5 yrs when it comes to football, why? because there are slim chances to play in European’s top leagues at an age of, for example 30 rather than 25. Look at people like Drogba how old do you think he is? So leave the young man alone for as long as he is less than 25 he is still young and has more time to enjoy.
The so called PRODIGAL SONS are misguided. Patience is a virtue and it pays. Don’t they realise that CHAN tournament will attract a lot of scouts from big clubs. This will be a chance for them to “shine” than going and failing trials 2 unknown countries. And why accept these chaps back in the team. Are we short of talent the entire country sure.
As for the coach, it is not just wearing shorts and grinning all the time – COACH!!! :-w
Coach Herve Renard: Collins Mbesuma,if your father earned k10,000,000.00 and gave half of it to your mother, what would she have?
Collins Mbesuma: A heart attack! :d
I support them & hope they are able 2 get the right results.Having said that,it is however,rather disconcerting knowing that the standard of the team is not really up2 scratch.Most of the gyz in the team are not yet ripe 4 the international scene though CHAN is a developmental championship.The problems come from the clubs where these guyz r..the standard of coaching leaves much 2 b desired.If they had qualified coaches at team level by the tym the get 2 national level the coach shud only working on tactics.But as it is,the coach has his work cut out 4 him
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These chaps are not serious…kuti waya mukuteya umupila ku Armenia… :d
Prodiggies :d
#25
Insala batata naku Singapore balifika ama Zedians.
Emmanuel Zulu (Emma) last time was in Vietnam playing Proffessional football.Thats the last we heard of him, thats how Zambians have crushed, going to Kangaroo leagues. Now it’s Armenia. I only rememeber hunger and cold spells there. #6 @tau You have asked when did we lose it from being a good not great footballing nation? Well the answer is when we elected kalu as FAZ coach and later FAZ chief. We lost it from there.
PF says the resignation of party’s secretary general Edward Mumbi is insignificant
Patriotic Front (PF) Leader Michael Sata says Party Secretary General, Edward Mumbi’s resignation from the party does not leave any vacuum. Mr. Sata says Mr. Mumbi was not an active member of the party, thus his resignation from the party is insignificant. He wondered why Mr. Mumbi waited too long to resign if the allegations he has leveled against the PF were true. Asked to comment on allegations that a named donor delivered money to his house in the run up to the October 30 Presidential Election, Mr. Sata challenged Mr. Mumbi to produce evidence. Mr. Sata was speaking to MUVI TV news. Opposition Patriot
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#30 jama co, These are well informed and we need more info from # 29 Zambia go go we need more.LT is boring today i will also keep posting jokes even if ni pa Sunday :-@
whats the latest on marcha chilemena…what happened?brief us if you have the data.
Pyunik in European Cups
As of December, 2008.
Competition Pld W D L GF GA
Champions League 24 5 6 13 23 34
UEFA Cup 2 1 0 1 5 6
Total 26 6 6 14 28 40
Season Competition Round Club Score
1996/97 UEFA Cup 1Q HJK Helsinki 3-1, 2-5
1997/98 Champions League 1Q MTK Budapest 0-2, 3-4
2002/03 Champions League 1Q Tampere United 4-0, 2-0
2Q Dynamo Kyiv 0-4, 2-2
2003/04 Champions League 1Q Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur 1-0, 1-1
2Q CSKA Sofia 0-2, 0-1
2004/05 Champions League 1Q Pobeda Prilep 3-1, 1-1
2Q Shakhtar Donetsk 1-3, 0-1
2005/06 Champions League 1Q Haka Valkeakoski 0-1, 2-2
2006/07 Champions League 1Q Sheriff Tiraspol 0-0, 0-2
2007/08 Champions