Guest Article: Well-meaning open letter to FAZ Chief, Kamanga
Mr. Kamanga, I have been extremely pained by last night’s group stage elimination from AFCON.
Zambia’s performance is as though there is a curse on the Team.
It’s as though something is holding back the players, stifling them from scoring! Until a Pastor friend of mine reasoned with me by way of troubleshooting!
To simply recollect that ever since 2012, it’s been trouble for the Chipolopolo.
The team didn’t qualify for three AFCONS. And we’ve been losing to poor opposition.
The TV commentator on the SuperSport channel last night kept rubbing it in, that Zambia has never won a game at AFCON since 2012. That is, at AFCON 2013, 2015 and now 2024 where we participated!
What’s the answer? Remove the Elephant from the room. Pay your dues as FAZ to the 2012 team that won the AFRICA CUP. Do the right thing. “He has shown you O, man. What is good and what God requires of you(it’s a requirement).
To do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly before God(to humble yourself before God, don’t be stubborn, don’t argue),” Micah 6v8. God observes the whole world, even the world of football. He requires justice everywhere and He will not blink nor slumber on equity.
Yes, Mr. Kamanga, you weren’t in office, but you’re in office now. Atone for the sins of the previous FAZ officials who didn’t pay the 2012 winners.
Those players have been crying. These things have an insoluble spiritual consequence. Just look at the pattern! Winless at all AFCON tournaments ever since!
You qualify for AFCON 2024 in Ivory Coast and it’s like clouds without rain. Winless again and elimination in the first round!
Curse the curse by paying the 2012 players. Without any excuses now, FAZ must pay the players of 2012 what was promised to them, the money that came from CAF.
The then government of Zambia did its part and paid the players. But the then FAZ regime did not pay the players what was due to them from its side or what was promised to them.
This information is in the public domain. In the Bible, Israel suffered an unexplained drought and when king David prayed, God told him his predecessor had shed innocent blood of the Gibeonites! David was the one in office now and so he took measures to atone for the sin of his predecessor and the drought stopped.
The 2012 AFCON winners have been crying and these things have spiritual ramifications. Without delay, the current FAZ must pay them if Chipolopolo is to sing its anthem at 2026 World Cup in North America! Do it now, Mr. Andrew Kamanga.