FAZ president says playing in the rainy season presents clubs an opportunity to improve infrastructure

 Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) president says playing league games in the rainy season has presented an opportunity to clubs to work on their infrastructure.

In his weekly president’s corner, Andrew Kamanga says it is regrettable that clubs have not been aggressively responsive in ensuring that infrastructure is upgraded to match up the level of exposure they have had playing on the continent.

“Rather, than complain about playing our games in the rainy season we must take up the challenge as an opportunity to work on our infrastructure,” Kamanga said.

 “It is regrettable that our clubs have not been aggressively responsive in ensuring that infrastructure is upgraded to match up the level of exposure they have had playing on the continent,” he added.

Kamanga notes that with strict CAF standards for hosting continental matches, it would be good to be forward looking for clubs that have targeted CAF participation to work on the football infrastructure.

“With strict CAF standards for hosting continental matches, it would be good to be forward looking for clubs that have targeted CAF participation to work on the football infrastructure,” he said

He adds that some of the challenges around stadia upgrade do not necessarily require money but only a little effort.

“Some of the challenges around stadia upgrade do not necessarily require money but only a little effort,” Kamanga stated.

The FAZ president says for every club that dreams of hosting their CAF matches at their home turf, they will have to upgrade their infrastructure and maximize the proverbial home ground advantage.

“The dream of every club would be to host their CAF matches at their home turf which maximizes the proverbial home ground advantage.”

He adds that despite the easiest way out of the current challenges presented by the rainy season will be reverting back to the old calendar, it will however be setting the country several steps backwards.

“The easiest way out would be to demand that the nation reverts to the old calendar, but it would be setting us several steps backwards. It may be easy to forget that even the old calendar had part of it played in the rainy season,” noted Kamanga.