Tag - FAZ

Zambia offers to bail out African football

Zambia has shown African solidarity by coming to the rescue and volunteered to host the CAF U-17 tournament that was cancelled on the eve of kick-off in Morocco. Morocco announced on march 8, two days before the tournament was supposed to have kicked off, that the 12 nation youth festival would be cancelled due to Covid-19...

Grace Chanda leads Zambia to Olympic qualification

Grace Chanda’s name is certainly going to be written in copper letter in the hearts of millions of Zambian football followers after the mercurial striker led her native country to a historic first ever qualification to the Olympic Games. Training Cameroon 3-2 from the first leg, final qualification match this week, (Chanda had scored the two...

Mulenga orders arrest of FAZ President

Zambia faces a possible ban from international football due to constant and incessant harassment of the President of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) by the country’s Minister of Sport Emmanuel Mulenga. FIFA issued a veiled threat to Zambia that they face a possible ban unless Minister Mulenga stopped interfering in the affairs of FAZ after...

Kunene steps into the eSwatini hot seat

Zambia have short-listed three coaches to take over the senior men national team, Zimbabwe have appointed an interim coach while eSwatini have taken the plunge and appointed Dominic Kunene to fill the post vacated by Kosta Papic until the end of the year. Milutin Sredejovic better known in football circles as Micho, former Liverpool player and...