19/06/2023
NKWETO TEMBWE WROTE...
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BOYS ✅️ ✅️ ✅️ ✅️
THE TECHNICAL BENCH AND ✅️ ✅️ ✅️ ✅️
THE✅️ ✅️ ✅️ ✅️ FANS.......
BUT NOT TO YOU!!!
June 19, 2023.
Lusaka.
For 8 years, you said AFCON Qualification should not be a measure of success for an FA..... When some of us spoke, you labelled us Saddists who do not understand football..... you asked us to "move on" and swallow our bitterness.....
..and you added "It's pointless to qualify when you know you can't win the tournament"
Now that Chipolopolo has qualified, you are running all over like headless chickens demanding that We congratulate you....No, we shall only congratulate the boys that have wanted it so much for 8 long and painful years......
Because of your mediocrity, you divided and obliterated the winning spirit for Chipolopolo, justified the purging of players like Stopilla Nsunzu...... today, you want to celebrate a benchmark you rejected, be consistent, ba Yama!
And by the way, Zambia has previously qualified 17 times to AFCON, Won it Once, reached the finals Twice and gotten bronze 2 or 3 times.....
You may also need to know that the current regime has a record of having achieved the longest absence by Zambia from AFCON, since 1974, when Zambia made its maiden appearance at Africa's biggest football Bonanza ⚽️.
And while still talking about absence, here are the sad facts....
1. When Zambia first qualified, the tournament only had 8 finalists......and this went on for a long time, and Zambia was always among the 8........
2. Later, CAF increased the total of finalists to 12, and Chipolopolo had no problem.......
3. Later, CAF allowed the finals to have 16 finalists..Chipolopolo was always there...
4. The last two editions that Chipolopolo has missed had 24 teams......and we had praise singers saying it is okay to miss.
To the boys, I say congratulations......
To the Technical Bench, I say......
"Well done." Thanks to you, the cheap gibberish of saying Zambia has no talent and is not a footballing Nation, may now be taken to where it belongs......kuchishala, the dump site... and in the minds of those that believed the lie!!!
To the Executives, I still remember when you reminded Zambians that you are not on the pitch and, therefore, should not be blamed for any loss.
On Saturday, I looked at the lineup, and I didn't see any executive member listed. So my congratulations will 🎊 only go to those whose names were on the official CAF Team sheet.
One more time, ba Zambia ba Chipolopolo, congratulations, I will be in Ivory Coast to cheer you on....
MWABELEKA BASANKWA!!!