zambia manager carrying player

In April 1993, a military aircraft carrying the Zambia squad and management (on their way to a World Cup Qualifier in Senegal) caught fire shortly after taking off from Libreville International Airport and ditched into the Atlantic Ocean, killing everyone... Apart from two players, Kalusha Bwalya (playing for PSV at the time, Bwalya was traveling separately) and Charles Musonda (the then Anderlecht player was injured so did not travel), Zambia lost an entire squad*.


carrying an injured player


Zambians – all singing,


Zambian coach pays tribute to


Zambia's Squad Carry Hopes to


Zambia players and officials


The memory of 18 players

Sata has the audacity to publicly criticise his ministers yet he is forgetting that he is the one who hand picked the selfsame people to head these COIs…even wise football managers rarely humiliate the players on TV as it is...
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The many famous footballing story involving Zambia is one of tragedy: On Apr 27, 1993, a craft carrying a Zambian inhabitant football group crashed and killed all 18 players on board, and a manager and backroom staff. Those 18 players...
zambia manager carrying player