01/04/2026
When you are playing Argentina—the world champions, a team that treats every match like a final—you are supposed to prepare a good team. You are supposed to select the best legs, the sharpest minds, the players who understand that wearing the national jersey is not a favor but a responsibility. Instead, we saw a collection of bodies who looked lost on the same pitch where World Cup winners were performing.
Players who are not good player. how much of these players did you bring? How many passengers did you load onto that plane?
You cannot bring such kind of players when you are bringing a… what class of team are we trying to present? Argentina brought class. They brought world champions. They brought players who fight for their national shirt like it is the last battle. We brought experiments. We brought names that don’t even command respect in our local league, let alone on a global stage.
This is not about being patriotic to every Zambian player. It is about honesty. There are good players everywhere in this country—players who are hungry, players who are fit, players who would run through a wall for the badge. But you ignored them. Instead, you filled the squad with players who lack the basic technical ability to control a ball under pressure, who cannot read the tempo of a high-level match.
What message does that send? That facing Argentina is a joke? That we can use the world champions as a testing ground for players who are not even knocking on the door of the national team on merit?
This is the wrong way to go, ba FAZ. You inherited a team that had structure. Now you are dismantling it with selections that lack quality, with call-ups that raise eyebrows across the continent. We expected better from you. We expected a team that reflects the pride of Zambia, not a collection of players who make us look like amateurs on a big stage.
Argentina is not Malawi. You cannot afford to experiment. You cannot afford to bring players who are not good to play football—not when the whole world is watching.
Learn that lesson before you destroy what little respect this team has left.