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Janza Replacing ‘Tired’ Players In The National Team
Honour Janza says he is in the process of replacing “tired” players in the national team.
Speaking to journalists after breaking a three-day training camp for local players, the Chipolopolo coach said there were some players in the national team who needed to leave to pave way for younger players.
Janza said he could not completely overhaul the team at once, but instead undertake the process in stages.
“Not immediately but the process has to start now. Like we have said, we will keep rebranding. But you don’t chop everything at once. You can’t replace all the 11 players at one time. It’s a process and has to start now. Maybe we are late,” Janza said.
Janza said it was clear that some of the players were tired and could not peform at their best level.
“They have done their part but we need to say to them you can do up to this up to this level, so maybe we can try another person. It’s possible (that most players are tired), you see them, you watch football, you watch them. It’s normal in football that you can’t stay forever, you have to hang up your boots. You need to wind up,” he said.
Most players who were part of the 2012 Africa Cup-winning team have struggled to return to their best form while others have shown signs of tiredness.
Janza said the future for the national team was sitting on a good platform looking at the local players who were ready to take up places.
“… when you see players like these, you can see the future of Zambian football. Zambian football is still sitting on a good platform. In the medium and long term we are okay. Our short term, we look at maybe one or two from the local, but mostly we want to use the ones that have graduated,” he said.
He said the nation should remain patient as he would soon start using local players for competitive matches.
Janza added that he was not under any pressure to produce results after a poor start to the 2015 Africa Cup qualifiers.
Zambia played to a goalless draw against Mozambique and lost 2-1 to Cape Verde in the opening two group fixtures.
The team’s next assignment is away to Niger next month.
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Ba buza
September 26, 2014 at 5:41 am
Pa zed always experimenting,time is now to hire a good local coach rather than start complaining later if we fail to qualify to next year,s Africa cup finals.however its a fair and firm decision to replace aging players who are underperforming;which should also be extended to the technical bench(I mean chintu kampamba ene ni zero)hope janza wnt be selective in replacing old playeers
sweet sound
September 26, 2014 at 9:13 am
The popular maxim that says “Like father like son” applies to TB Joshua and his now discredited ministry. We can rightfully say “Like building like pastor”. The recent tragic incident at T B Joshua’s church in Lagos signals the slow and gradual crumbling of a mega charlatanic ministry being spearheaded by one of the most notorious evangelical con artists Nigeria has ever known.
T B Joshua has since the nineties mined the gullibility and nincompoopery of Africans using tricks, forged and fraudulent miracles cure claims and prophecies. But it took just a little architectural oversight to expose the schemes and pretensions of this charlatan.
Like his building, prophet TB Joshua is a ‘structure’ waiting to collapse, in fact Joshua’s ministry has starting collapsing.. Like his church building, Joshua’s ministry is founded on a flimsy and fraudulent foundation that cannot withstand the pressure of test and the weight of evidence. But we do not need this scale of tragedy to wake Africans up and put this impostor out of business.
I just wish that many of those who lost their lives had listened to the voice of reason and stayed away from the rickety wobbling evangelical enterprise called the Synagogue in Lagos, Nigeria. I wish the dead had ignored the tele evangelical theatric of TB Joshua on his Immanuel TV and stayed back in their countries and communities. They would have been alive today. Gullibility sucks. In fact gullibility kills particularly at the Synagogue in Lagos.
People can be gullible onto death. And those who are gullible should not suffer collapse and death alone, the ministry of those who feed on this destructive virus should suffer the same fate too. So, T B Joshua’s Synagogue and its Satellite affiliate, the Immanuel TV, it is now your turn to collapse and die.
popcorn kk
September 26, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Ba Janza naimwe ku wayawaya fye stop making unnecessary pronouncements.