Six out of the 32 players from ZESCO United developmental teams have graduated to the club’s main team. ZESCO United Football Club management recently held trials in Ndola aimed at giving the club’s technical bench an opportunity to appreciate the budding talent emerging from the team’s developmental structures. With the shift in the club’s recruitment policy, ZESCO United’s developmental teams …

16-year-old Mutale Sangwani, is an example of a budding player who has developed through the ZESCO United youth structures. The young striker has steadily graduated from the ZESCO United U-14 to the club’s U-19 youth team. Last week, Sangwani was among a handful of young players who were selected across ZESCO United’s feeder teams for a one-week trial organized by …

It’s that time of the year once again when football clubs around the world go in search of the best players to strengthen their squads. Zambian Super League giants, ZESCO United are not leaving any stone unturned in their quest to rekindle the club’s glory years. Having abdicated the throne as the nation’s Super League ‘Big Boys’, TeamYaziko are not …

Former Zambia National team and ZESCO United striker, Jackson Mwanza has challenged ZESCO United players to work extra hard as the team prepares for the 2020/2021 FAZ/MTN Super League Season. Famously known as ‘Zola’ among ZESCO United supporters largely for his dribbling and goal-scoring exploits, Mwanza has urged the players to compensate for the club’s failure to defend the 2019/2020 …

On March 13, 2017, tears of joy overcame a certain young man from Lusaka’s Bauleni compound. These were not tears of having passed a grade 12 examination, but tears of having achieved the impossible. In 2017, Solomon Sakala became the first-ever Zambia U-20 captain to lead the county to a first-ever junior Africa Cup of Nations triumph, four years after …

ZESCO United and Kenyan international goalkeeper Ian Otieno has expressed disappointment at the team’s failure to defend the FAZ/MTN Super League title and to qualify for the 2020/2021 CAF competitions. Otieno who joined ZESCO United early this year from Red Arrows says ZESCO United is a big football brand that deserves to be in all competitions. “This is a big …

Former Zesco Malaiti Rangers defender, Sam Mkandawire is anxious to break into the ZESCO United first team. 24-year-old Mkandawire joined ZESCO United last year from one of the club’s developmental teams, Zesco Malaite Rangers. Like Samuel Sikaonga, Mkandawire is another young star working tirelessly to catch the eye of ZESCO United coach, George Lwandamina. “It is a dream come true …

The 2019/2020 FAZ/MTN Super League season finally came to its premature conclusion yesterday with the Wusakile boys, Nkana crowned champions for the 13th time after Forest Rangers failed to sail past Zanaco FC in a rescheduled fixture that ended 0-0. The crowning of Nkana as 2019/2020 Super League champions saw ZESCO United abdicate its position as the ‘Big Boys’ of …

Zambia’s perennial envoy in two of the continents coveted CAF competitions, ZESCO United yesterday failed to make the grade for the 2020/2021 CAF season after finishing fifth in the 2019/2020 FAZ/MTN Super League Championship.  This is the first time since 2012 that the eight times Super League champions will not be among Africa’s elite teams that will be competing in …

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