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Zambia National Soccer Team coach Milutin Sredojevic says his technical bench will start conducting goalkeeper’s training for the Chipolopolo as well as Super League team coaches. The Serbian gaffer popularly known as Micho says his goalkeeper trainer Miroslav Stojnic will conduct a goalkeeper’s course for coaches in the Zambian League once the Covid-19 subsides. He also says that a nursery of prospective goalkeepers had been established with 10 candidates working with the technical bench regularly. Micho added that long-serving Chipolopolo goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene, whom he called a legend, deserves an honourable send-off from the game for his contribution over the years. Micho took over the reins of the Chipolopolo job on February 3, 2020 and has not let even the Covid-19 threat from getting down to work.

By CAF MEDIA After a checkered history that saw them finishing as runner-ups twice, and in third place three times, Zambia finally bagged their only Africa Cup of Nations title in 2012. Chipolopolo  emerged victorious when Gabon and Equatorial Guinea co-hosted the African football showpiece, as the Zambians celebrated at the same place that saw their heroes’ plane crashing on the shores of Libreville in 1993. Gabon / Equatorial Guinea 2012 Zambia started their Group A campaign with an unexpected 2-1 win over Senegal, followed by a 2-2 draw with Libya. Christopher Katongo’s lone strike gave them win over hosts Equatorial Guinea to reach the quarterfinals where they cruised 3-0 over Sudan. In the semifinal Emmanuel Mayuka scored twelve minutes from time as Zambia defeated Ghana 1-0. A barren stalemate with Cote d’Ivoire in the final meant the game went to penalties. Stoppila Sunzu scored the decisive kick as  Chipolopolo  won 8-7 to lift their first ever ...

Composed by Lucky Mwewa Chama Wieslaw Grabowski is a former Zambia National team coach who was appointed in July, 1983 by the Football Association of Zambia. As a player Grabowski played for Gornik Zobrze, and appeared for Poland in six matches and was in the team that beat England 2-0 in the 1974 World Cup qualifying round. He was at 36 years when he was appointed to take charge of the Zambia National Team. According to a newspaper article which was published on 27 th January, 1984, in the Times of Zambia under the Sport On Column it was revealed that Grabowski’s salary was not remitted by FAZ for a period of six months. A month after the publication of the article, Grabowski received a letter terminating his employment contract with FAZ. No reasons were given in the letter. As a young coach he was shattered and the Zambian football community sympathized with him. On February 21, FAZ chairman Tom Mtine announced his removal and hoped that Zambian coaches woul...

By Lucky Mwewa Chama | 7 April,  2020 The Zambia National Soccer Team technical bench has implemented a cross-checking program with various players in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. FAZ Media reports that Senior Men’s National Team Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic and his assistants Dusan Istojanovic, Oswald Mutapa, goalkeeper trainer Miroslav Itojinic, team manager Desmond M’ngawa have gotten down to business in the background of the Covid-19 Threat. Micho and his technical bench have designed a strategic plan that involves individualized training for players using video footage during the covid-19 threat.