{"id":9532,"date":"2019-04-10T12:25:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=9532"},"modified":"2019-04-10T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T12:26:12","slug":"zafca-sees-bright-side-of-local-coach-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/?p=9532","title":{"rendered":"ZAFCA sees bright side of local coach snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Zambia Football Coaches Association (ZAFCA) president Daniel Kabwe says local coaches will see the imminent appointment of a foreign trainer as a challenge to improve their credentials.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2FFAZfootball.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3aXEBafy6FzbWkiYxV1svp_JqP_uQGA5q11mO7tgSU0vTKq0x6DqsnKWQ&amp;h=AT2Fgtb_B9MBkUHOqiXhEb_l2rOEFVZY94Bc81Y5eROq09CG4r0k5Isk_KoImBO1iCSGnrUPv6ftbm6ZpQa24VdMY-fvmcghvIs4KuuwQdfuG-1BhF-eKRR_sD4_RKzBa-NSDDpCgoXt2bEFI9xltnvdx7IaAX-6W097d87qDYyP5p0mPDBcSR2amnC-EC8vtgYlt0Hi7x8VEP5Rnqby97IrPkkQWR23l8SMCKWdrzbRM_rmGkuYRe9jWN1pDMHrbACoBRHYhosGe4VgliWQv6r46b761tqQ8mq2iOyuS6atgLNdefaf-7LJyvHrZuVutNBczrEdhwqDKMeHAT7pakWwapuJjersoxePDg_vRcvqE6W_88KMGsIXfNp5piJ3zXYFYu2dn9j__E9gtlm5v-2N3EksuNizhoSwPZkcRjOrT1u9XHpK4yIvIG0FFgUzSYswQOF-XwVTgfUG4iuU9-vqmCtFa_tLNiGjXTX8rIpIz6srG_hL_fbfk7TbMQd_oaxB5SmmReGxl4Dr2pfT9PeYLTWTctWwzjj4--vOp-qffNhiXBFtSTPfK7vm31dqwj9eAMEqyxpqNB5us9GFz9il_2pZisbCE00yRXq_4yNKfjqJoUzWqXAVGejUudm4sdA\">FAZfootball.com<\/a>, Kabwe said local coaches needed to up their qualifications to make them as competitive as any coaches anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Kabwe said the pronouncement that local coaches would be sent for training was a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the new coach is brought in, let us have at least some local coaches to be under studies so that knowledge is shared,we only have one Zambian with a UEFA A qualification with\u00a0 Mr Kalusha Bwalya and the rest of us have UEFA B licenses. We need to do more in terms of training,\u201dKabwe said<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to do more in terms of coach education, for instance only 29 Zambians have a CAF A licence and that was from a training done four years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, during the MTN Bola Show, FAZ president Andrew Kamanga disclosed that no local coach had applied for the vacant Chipolopolo job.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Chipolopolo job fell vacant after Belgian born trainer Sven Vandenbroeck parted ways with the association on March 30.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vandenbroeck was tasked to qualify Zambia to the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations but failed to meet that target.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Staff Reporter &nbsp; Zambia Football Coaches Association (ZAFCA) president Daniel Kabwe says local coaches will see the imminent appointment of a foreign trainer as a challenge to improve their credentials. &nbsp; In an interview with\u00a0FAZfootball.com, Kabwe said local coaches needed to up their qualifications to make them as competitive as any coaches anywhere. Kabwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9534,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9532\/revisions\/9534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsdayzambia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}