Kalusha Bwalya

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Kalusha
Personnel
Surname Kalusha Bwalya
birthday August 16, 1963
place of birth Mufulira ,  Northern Rhodesia ,
today Zambia
size 177 cm
position Attack , wings
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979-1980 Mufulira Blackpool
1980-1985 Mufulira Wanderers
1985-1989 Cercle Bruges 98 (29)
1989-1994 PSV Eindhoven 101 (25)
1994-1997 Club America 88 (21)
1997 Necaxa 17 0(1)
1997-1998 al-Wahda
1998 Club León 13 0(1)
1998-1999 CD Irapuato
1999-2000 CD Veracruz
2000-2001 UAT Correcaminos
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-2004 Zambia 88 (32)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2001-2003 Potros Marte Pegasus (Co-Tr.)
2004-2006 Zambia
1 Only league games are given.

Kalusha Bwalya (often just Kalusha or Kalu ; born August 16, 1963 in Mufulira , Northern Rhodesia ) is a former Zambian football player on the position of a striker and winger . After working as a football coach at the end of his active football career, he has been President of the Football Association of Zambia since 2008 .

Career

Left-footed Bwalya is considered to be the best player in his home country and a pioneer of Zambian football and African football in Europe in the 1980s .

Bwalya was a member of the Zambian national team that competed in the 1988 Olympic Games . He scored 32 goals in 88 international matches. He made his debut against Uganda in 1983 and appeared in several tournaments, including six editions of the African Cup of Nations. In 1988 he was named Africa's Footballer of the Year .

Kalusha Bwalya, the man with the number 11, led the team as captain to the runner-up at the CAF African Nations Cup in 1994 in Tunisia . The national team finished third in the next edition of the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa in 1996, with Kalusha receiving the Golden Shoe as the tournament's top scorer.

For qualifying for the 2006 World Cup , he became a player-coach. On September 5, 2004 in the game Zambia against Liberia , Kalusha came off the bench at the age of 41 in the second half and scored the winning goal. However, Zambia finished third in qualifying and did not qualify for the 2006 World Cup.

Despite the failure, Bwalya coached Zambia at the 2006 African Cup of Nations . After they were eliminated in the first round, he resigned from the post. However, he continued to play an active role in international football and was a member of the FIFA Technical Study Group for the 2006 World Cup . He was also one of the ambassadors for the 2010 World Cup, which was held in South Africa. Bwalya is now President of the Football Association of Zambia .

successes

Mufulira Wanderers

Cercle Bruges

  • 2 × team-internal top scorer: 1986/87, 1987/88
  • 2 × “Player of the Year” (Pop Poll d'Echte) election: 1986/87, 1987/88
  • 1 × Belgian Cup finalist: 1985/86

PSV Eindhoven

  • 2 × Champion of the Eredivisie : 1990/91, 1991/92
  • 2 x runner-up in the Eredivisie: 1989/90, 1992/93
  • 1 × KNVB Cup winner: 1989/90
  • 1 × Johan Cruyff Schaal : 1991/92
  • 1 × Johan Cruyff Schaal finalist: 1990/91

Club America

  • 1 × Copa Pachuca: 1997

al-Wahda

National team

  • 1 × African Cup of Nations finalist: 1994
  • 2 × African Cup of Nations third: 1990, 1996
  • 2 × COSAFA Senior Challenge winner: 1997, 1998
  • 1 × COSAFA Senior Challenge Finalist: 2004
  • 2 × CECAFA Cup winners: 1984, 1991
  • 1 × CECAFA Cup finalist: 1988

Individually

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personal data
SURNAME Bwalya, Kalusha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zambian soccer player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Mufulira , Zambia