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Zambia Bounce Back In World Cup Race
African champions Zambia put a torrid week of off-field tension behind them to beat Ghana 1-0 in their World Cup qualifier on Saturday.
Captain Chris Katongo scored with a deflected shot after 15 minutes to ensure home success after a week of snipping between officials and the team coach in the wake of their loss in Sudan last weekend.
Katongo’s goal marked a successful opening of the new 40,000-capacity Chinese-built stadium on Zambia’s copperbelt and will go a long way to easing tensions after the 2-0 defeat in Khartoum in their opening Group D game last Sunday.
Zambia’s flamboyant French coach Herve Renard criticised sports ministry officials for botching travel arrangements to Sudan, which he blamed for the defeat, and then revealed he had not been paid for the last six months since Zambia won the Nations Cup in February.
He has a contract with government rather than the football association and was told to temper his criticism by irritated officials.
The row over-shadowed the buildup to Saturday’s game against a weakened Ghana side, without many of the key players who helped them to a World Cup quarter-final at the 2010 finals in South Africa.
But Ghana, who Zambia also beat in last February’s Nations Cup semifinal, started the World Cup qualifiers with a one-sided 7-0 win over Lesotho on June 1.
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STEVO
June 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
CONGRATS BOYS,ATLEAST YOU HAVE BROUT BACK THE SMILE ON OUR FACES WHICH WERE ALMOST TAKEN AWAY..
Lord farah
June 10, 2012 at 1:23 pm
Ba kambwili, can u guys now pay renard wats due 2 him. Y shud u mount unnecessary pressure on our cup winning coach? U guys need 2 b honest in yo dealings. Pay tht man!
Pye Pye
June 10, 2012 at 1:30 pm
Imagine guyz if Zambia Lost to Ghana wat would have happend.
Stadium was full and ………..
ROY MASE
June 10, 2012 at 1:40 pm
Congrats boys kip it up, one luv.
emory
June 10, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Congrats boys am rily hapi 4 wat u r doin 4 our country… Chipolopolo iye
mcshen
June 10, 2012 at 2:19 pm
yess thats what up Ghana in ka dimba katu they are our customers
Faraday
June 10, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Go chipolopolo..am very happy for the way they played….
kakolwe
June 10, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Congrata ba Chipolopolo! Hey! Did the prostitutes deliver on their promise? Chi Kambwili, tame your emotions. Otherwise troting you from ministry to ministry wont help us at all.
Peter Bungane
June 10, 2012 at 2:41 pm
Congratulations to a well deserved win in our international inaugural first match played at Levy Mwanawasa stadium in Ndola.
We must now focus on playing European or even North African teams in preparations for the next qualifying games. To Renard keep up the good work in steering the Chipolopolo to our fisrt World Cup.
May GOD ALMIGHTY richly bless you all!!!!
Chimbwi No Plan
June 10, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Congrats Chipolopolo. Too bad for me working in East Africa for missing out of free Pwii from Zed mahule. For your own info fellow Zambians, the story of our gvmnt failling to pay the coach is as embarrassed us to the international community as has the Nakonde to Mpika road. Shame
kingpin
June 10, 2012 at 3:52 pm
We want a winning coach but we hav a problem paying him .Good coaches are not cheap.six months no pay is it a charitable organization
doc b
June 10, 2012 at 3:58 pm
go zambia go, brazil watch your back!
GUN
June 10, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Was nice watching the game live in Ndola also saw Liato at the east wing lower deck with ‘ba buju’ around him! I cant wait for Sudan’s pay back time.
Higher Taller
June 10, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Now Chelsea have scooped Charly Musonda. Had he been a Zambian the World would have been his stage at the 2014 World Cup!
NIKITA
June 10, 2012 at 4:34 pm
Ayelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelelele
PF Rigged
June 10, 2012 at 4:39 pm
Kambwili is a flop. Let hm resign now. Congrates boys 4 winning the game. Win the remaining games.
anebha
June 10, 2012 at 6:00 pm
a word for the wise is enough.sata tells the boys to bite mwawonaka they complied.go sata boys go.u makes southern africa proud.viva chipolopolo viva.may the soul of mwanawasa ever rest in peace.
ganjaman
June 10, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Its the minds of pipo lyke “anebha” who think we won the game because sata said so! are you telling the whole world that sata said we should loose to sudan! Mudzinkala ko ndi nzelu! Nzelu kuipa bati!
Sata…. ohh, if you were near me,…. i would have……ohh, told you in the face!
patric
June 10, 2012 at 6:28 pm
Firstly i would like to express my disappointment with the car park at the stadia. Imagine if the Match was played under flood lights what could have happened? secondly how can we tell investors to pay workers while we are failing to pay an individual? pay the coach shame kambwili.harvey sOrry you wil receive wat is due you are a good coach thanks man and congrats you make us proud
Congrats to chipolopolo now the blac stars believe it was not a fluk go Zambia go. Sudan you are next
Cynthia
June 10, 2012 at 6:41 pm
God bless our land Zambia,the year of divine performance
the African
June 10, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Obviously this article wasn’t written by Tumfweko. Its interesting, logical, has good grammar and professional. Hope you wanna be journos have learnt and appreciated.
Shameless
June 10, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Our long gone glory days are slowly coming back. Winning against Ghana felt so good as though we had already qualified to Brazil 2014. Congrats boys and please never underlet the remaining teams.
Zedian in Gh
June 10, 2012 at 7:13 pm
Actually, Ghanaians knew they would lose – there were no flags in their cars this time around! Elo bane how true is the report doing rounds in Accra that the Ghanaian players were beaten by cops after the match? I fear hostility when our boys come to Ghana
chibwe
June 10, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For some of us who watched the game in ndola. The stadium is very dirty cobwebs all over the stadium,
zagga swagga
June 10, 2012 at 9:46 pm
@chibwe,what cobwebs in the stadia,wat dirty? U guys shud learn to appreciate,
kakolwe
June 11, 2012 at 1:50 am
@Chibwe. Why choose to expose UBUPUBA on an international. forum. How did you manage to go ‘all over’ the stadium? Eimwe mushala. muletola ama bubble gum notupendo after the match!! Kulabwino mumbwe!!!
klasic
June 11, 2012 at 7:44 am
@ Chibwe, amano ububi
Witty
June 11, 2012 at 8:52 am
@Zedian in Gh…the Cops were merely restraining the Black Star plAyers from destroying electronic gadgets for the media.They were venting their anger at what they perceived to be bias from the Ref towards them.They now have an excuse to mistreat Chipolopolo during the return game…The above article was plagiarised from BBC,its not Tumfweko’s report.
mwpe
June 11, 2012 at 10:40 am
@chibwe mulenasha casa kanwa
ONETIME RELOADED
June 11, 2012 at 10:51 am
Sudan uzabweza nkongole..kaili ubwela kwatu
nanangi
June 11, 2012 at 11:01 am
congrats chipolopolo…@ chibwe youre a fool learn to appreciate
George Thindwa
June 11, 2012 at 11:30 am
Kodi mahule aulele aja anachindidwa?(Did those prostitutes offer free sex as per agreement)
Pungulist....!
June 11, 2012 at 11:51 am
Twalibapungula saana ba Ghana……come Sudan..tukabapungula….Trust me Zambia is going all the way. The NAME TO LOOK OUT for at the Brazil 2014 WORLD CUP is “Chipolopolo”
sitcho
June 11, 2012 at 12:16 pm
The land next to the stadium should be reserved for car park……than parking our cars in the grave yard and walk to the stadium.
Umfwakuno Iwe
June 11, 2012 at 12:23 pm
This is what we want to continue seeing.As champions we can not afford to loose to teams that we beat last year.We now make it a habit to contnue beating teams like Ivory Coast,Senegal,Egypt..then we gonna proove a point to the Thomases of Zed.We must keep that trophy…..
BIG BEMBA
June 11, 2012 at 12:47 pm
PLEASE ZAMBIANS PAY YOU COACH.KING KOBRA HAVE STARTED STEALING GOVERNMENT MONE. IMAGINE MALAWIAN COACH DOES NOT BRING ANYTHING BUT THE MAN IS HANDSOMELY PAID. BECAFUL WE NYASA CAN
ONETIME RELOADED
June 11, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Now its time for faz to bounce back and pay renard the six months arrears
Zedian in Gh
June 11, 2012 at 1:19 pm
@ Witty, thanx for the feedback.
unknown
June 11, 2012 at 3:04 pm
am sure chibwe did not watch the march live learn to appreciate that way will develop
Mando
June 11, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Bola Panshi
TUPAC
June 11, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Its un4tunate that we ‘ve people who claim to be zedian but have a grudge against the national team.Imagine sam1proudly supporting tha opponents.Enze namwai kembo sininamwemo coz kaya mwandi?Naimwe bafikala mwebatemwa ukudenouncer amaguys ngali down timiziba osati kukamba tikawina.
Zega
June 11, 2012 at 4:47 pm
@Chibwe, the cobwebs are in head. Where else did u see a great stadium like that? Learn to be humble
Sobongo
June 12, 2012 at 12:04 am
CONGRATS ZAMBIA.U HAVE SHOWN THAT GHANA ARE NOTHING AFTER-ALL.IN MODERN FOOTBALL, THERE ARE NO MORE UNDER-DOGS.DOESNT GHANA UNDRSTAND THAT WE ARE CHAMPIONS OF AFRICA?LET THEM COME AGAIN.BUT BANE,GOVT MUST PAY RENARD.NAYE AGAISILEKO BANA UNGA.AS FOR KAMBWILI JOIN ME IN ADVOCATING FOR A MINISTRY HELP ME SUGGEST,OF WHAT?WHICH KAMBWILI CAN HEAD SINCE HIS MASTER UKWA FEELS AT LEAST HE MUST BE MINISTER OF SOMETHING.THE CHAP IS A FLOP.KUBWETUKA BUTWEKA CHABE NO SUBSTANCE.U OWE RENARD YET U WANT TO FIRE SALVO AT HIM?NO DECENCY,NO DIPLOMACY.U BLAME RENARD FOR GOING TO THE MEDIA YET U ALSO GO AND ANSWER HIM MU MEDIA.KAMBWILI CHABE!(HON SMALL HOE)
Aziba pa Malawi
June 12, 2012 at 10:21 am
You guys I just wanted to know if the prostitutes gave you free sex on this day {Saturday} as we ealier heard that if the Chipolopolo boys win this game they {Mahule anu/prostitutes} will give free and hard sex
Chonde ndiuzeniko wanganya mwina naneso ndingazaone nawe zimenezo
skill
June 20, 2012 at 2:25 pm
The best team ever with the best coach ever to coach Zambia. football is all about winning trophies. this is the best team ever coz they won what the former teams have never won.