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Mwale:Govt Has No Money For Coach
Sports minister Vincent Mwale says the government has no money to give the Football Association of Zambia to engage a new national team coach.
Last month, FAZ made a proposal to the government on the recruitment of an expatriate coach after telling its delegates at an annual general meeting that caretaker coach Honour Janza was under-qualified for the role. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday afternoon, Mwale said the government recently bailed out FAZ with K3 million paid out to Dario Bonetti for unfair dismissal, and that returning to the Treasury to seek more funding impossible. “We just bailed out FAZ. We spent a lot of money and for me to go back to the Treasury and ask for money for us to employ the technical bench, I think that is a tall order. It will be a challenge for the Treasury to find these resources,” Mwale said.
He said the government’s aim was to see the Chipolopolo qualify to the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations and the 2018 World Cup, and had since engaged the corporate world to source money for the engagement of a new coach. “We are looking at the corporate world out there.
There is good indication we might soon be announcing how we would have raised towards the technical bench; [it] looks like there is goodwill from corporate world to supplement government’s efforts,” said Mwale.
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New Educated Zambia©
April 26, 2015 at 3:09 pm
Very saddening . And when we come out as the UPND and say that this government lacks the capacity to manage the economy we are called names. It is clear that the budget shortfall which our brother HH spoke about in europe, is indeed becoming a negative reality on the ground. The government is has got no money because they have mispaced priorites.
New Educated Zambia©
April 26, 2015 at 3:09 pm
Look at how most infrastructure projects have halted? clearly a lack of planning on the part of the PF. You have seen for yourselves. Now come 2016 do the right thing and vote UPND and let us move this nation foward
empire
April 26, 2015 at 3:43 pm
bacilamo no kulusa.when was the last time Zambia won an internationally recognized game. support chess or kalamoja
major chileshe
April 26, 2015 at 8:10 pm
Lets jus do away wit football,we nolonger good at it,darts cn even b a better option
solution easy
April 26, 2015 at 11:09 pm
Just employ a cheap Chinese coach. we all know they are cheap and flexible on payments and they are good at making replicas, so maybe they will even make replica neymers and Ronaldo’s of this world for our national team.
chichi
April 27, 2015 at 11:18 am
malabishi gvt,by the time they frustrated honor janza,they didnt knw that they had no finances 2 engage an expertriate?
Senior Baloteli
April 28, 2015 at 7:21 am
Useless minister, his job is to look for money. There’s no team at a professional level that has no expertriate coach, in England, Spain, Italy, everywhere.His not a sports person, it’s just a job. How does he expect Janza to qualify the team to World Cup.
New Educated Zambia©
April 28, 2015 at 8:20 am
No money and now no power in Zambia. We are told the government lacks capacity to effectively manage anything. Pf is a joke. You fire a manager in name of better services and you end b up with worse off service. Kikiki
Mula
April 28, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Uku Kwangala. Why Waste My Time?
jessy
April 28, 2015 at 4:55 pm
lets us just do away with football.it doesnt make any sense,u employ an expatriate and u start loosing expatriatly.