The Football Association of Zambia – FAZ has declined to comment on whether they will keep or sack the Zambia national football team Serbian coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic. This follows calls and a vote of no confidence passed on the Serbian following his unconvincing stint.
When contacted by the Zambian Business Times – ZBT, FAZ Public Relations Manager Sydney Mugala refuse to state what course of action the association will take following the two embarrassing defeats at the hands of Lesotho and Swaziland at ongoing COSAFA tournament.
Mugala stated that “lets give them a chance and and see how they are going to perform in the next match. To make a good judgement on his performance and the performance of the Chipolopolo Boys, people must wait for all the matches to be played and thats when we will decide whether Micho must fired or not”
For now, FAZ has called on soccer fans to remain calm and to remain supportive of the Chipolopolo boys.
A check on social media also shows that calls for the resignation of FAZ president Andrew Kamanga have re-ignited after a relative calm in the past few months. Soccer fans are dissatisfied with his administration whose achievements have mostly been in youth football and women’s football.
The Kamanga administration has seen the fancied Chipolopolo side miss playing at three consecutive African cup of nations in a row, a bitter pill to swallow for most soccer fans. Kamanga’s rise to the football hot seat had also been at the expense of Zambia’s soccer icon – Kalusha Bwalya, whose administration delivered Zambia’s first AFCON trophy in 2012.
