NoLwandamina has moved to Tanzania and is expected to sign a three year deal at Yanga.
It’s not a mean feat for the coach with two ZSL trophies and a CAF champions league semi final slot to leave a club like Zesco for Tanzania.
Lwandamina’s record at Zesco United 2014- 2016
MATCHES IN ALL COMPETITIONS: 113
WINS: 69
DRAWS: 27
LOSSES: 17
GOALS SCORED: 205
GOALS CONCEDED: 94
The Zambian Super league is on the rise and most Zesco fans in Ndola would have wished their coach to move down south or even to a much better club in elite leagues like Tunisia, Egypt etc
“Moving to Dar er salaam is one of the worst decision Chicken has made”, one furious fan lamented saying they are upset with the idea.
Another fans said it was astonishing for a coach like Lwandamina to resign just to move to Tanzania.
Tanzania is a fast growing country in football and their league is becoming one of the best in the regions.
The Tanzania Viacom league has 16 teams with Yanga, Simba, Azam, Mwadui some kg the clubs that pay very well.
An inside source at Simba says that the club through its chairman Mohammed Dewji are offering Tsh 10million in allowances to be shared by each player. This translates to Tsh 200,000($50)Yanga on the other side pays each player Tsh 70,000($35)for every win.
It’s important to note that the offer Yanga are giving immediate Zesco coach George Lwandamina is irresistible and with Yanga offering him six times the salary he got at Zesco. At Zesco he was earning $3000 a month compared to $18000 he will get at Yanga.
Yanga started trailing the award winning coach and former Chipolopolo coach during his impressive stint in the just concluded CAF champions league. Yanga too came close to reaching their maiden group phase of the champions league buy they exit narrowly to another giant Al Ahly.
Clubs like Azam FC ,Simba and Yanga have the financial muscle to sign any player from Africa and pay very well.
Young Africans’ biggest rivals, Simba Sports Club, recently approved a $10 million bid from billionaire businessman Mohammed Dewji for him to take a 51 percent shareholding in the club which has shaken Tanzanian football.
Azam Football Club — the new challengers to the traditional giants — are owned by the Bakhresa Group of Companies, whose business portfolio includes the largest milling company in Tanzania, with the company’s 67-year-old owner, Said Salid Bakhresa, rated by Forbes as one of the 40 richest people in Africa worth more than US$520 million.
Azam owns a TV pay company with over two million subscribers in east Africa
Also Tanzania top league sides pay players very well compared to neighbours Kenya and Uganda.
For example two years ago Rwandese Mbuyu Twite was among the best paid players in the league earning approximately Tsh 3.6million approximately $1800 USD .the late Ugandan keeper Abel Dhaira earned Tsh 3.3Million $1650 monthly as well as Mrisho Ngasa who is in South African league
With high expectaions for the Zambian at Yanga and with a more difficult opposition from Yanga and Azam, the Zambian will be able to overcome such considering his exploits in the Zambian league winning back to back league titles at the expense of Zanaco, Power Dynamos and Nkana.
It’s worth noting that by Lwandamina’s move to Yanga is not a wrong move by standards.
