Zambia FA boss Kalusha in thinly veiled Andre Ayew attack
Posted On Saturday, 27th October 2012
Andre Ayew has been accused of being indisciplined when playing for the Black Stars
Zambia FA chief Kalusha Bwalya has launched a thinly veiled attack on Andre Ayew claiming the continent is failing to reach its true potential because of the “prima donna” attitude of some Europe-based.
Zambia’s greatest player said when some of the players return home to play for their countries they break team rules which they will not do with their clubs in Europe.
In what could resonate strongly with Ghana, Kalusha said the “prima donna” attitude from some stars based abroad leads to indiscipline in the national teams.
His attack comes in the week that Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah warned Ayew over his attitude in the national team following the midfielder reaction when he was substituted in the qualifier against Malawi.
Ayew, who plays for French side Marseille, was given one week to apologise to the technical team and his team-mates over his actions when he was substituted in this month’s game.
The mdifielder launched a verbal attack on the technical team for the substitution and refused to shake hands with his team-mates, prompting action from the coach.
Kalusha, now a successful football administrator as CAF Executive Committee member, believes there is no excuse for players to not respect their national sides.
“I hear so many times that when players come back to play for their respective countries, they want to be treated them like prima donnas,” the 1988 African Player of the Year told the BBC.
“When some Africans become big stars it can lead them to be ill disciplined.
“My question would be ‘why do we as players act one way in Europe – for clubs – and differently for national associations?’
“Why can they not exhibit the same discipline that they have in Europe?”
“Unfortunately I hear so many stories of football indiscipline, mixed a little bit with outside indiscipline when players in Africa all of a sudden become big stars.
“It should be an obligation for our players to behave for their national teams as well as they behave in Europe for their clubs.”
Kalusha, who spent five years at Dutch side PSV Eindhoven, reserved praise for Ivorian star Didier Drogba, insisting that players must lead by example so that future generations will act in the appropriate way.
“I want to also commend players like Didier Drogba – he is always there for his national team and exhibits the same commitment he does for his club,” said Kalusha who made 147 appearances for Zambia and is their most capped player.
“And everybody aspires to be a star like Drogba or Samuel Eto’o. So it is important that when players come back to Africa they show the same discipline because there are millions and millions of people following them in whatever they do.”
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AGYEEIII,HE HAS SPOKEN LIKE HE USED TO PLAY. VERY DISCIPLINED GUY. NO NONESENSE GUY.
GSM:plz don’t bring up hatred or preach hate speech btn zambia and Ghana.what our FA president was refering to are generally the change in altitude of our African players when they become superstars.A good example Nigerian keeper Vincent Enyeama wz suspended from Nigerian squad coz he claimed he wanted to be in a first class compartment while the rest of the team was in economy.Enyeama would probably have never boarded any plane in his life time if he didn’t play for that nigerian club Enyimba so he gets a bit of dollars and suddenly the nation should be held to ransom? No No No!!
This no hatred speech but the truth
Bwalya well spoken. WOW! a zambian talking with wisdom. wonders will never end.
Great sentiments great Kalu, and much thanks GSN for a uniting article. their has been so much verbal attacks between Ghana and Zambia and an article like this proves to show that we are brothers who enjoy the beautiful game together regardless of inclination. Ayew certainly needs to be disciplined, he is talented but he shouldnt think he is a superstar and above all his other team mates. It’s actions like this that will make it difficult for Ghana to pull through to the next stage. Honestly i have seen this problem for some time now in the Ghana team and thats the reason we keep winning this tie.
Great sentiments great Kalu, and much thanks GSN for a uniting article. their has been so much verbal attacks between Ghana and Zambia and an article like this proves to show that we are brothers who enjoy the beautiful game together regardless of inclination. Ayew certainly needs to be disciplined, he is talented but he shouldnt think he is a superstar(he is a superstar but not at the expense of teamwork) and above all his other team mates. It’s actions like this that will make it difficult for Ghana to pull through to the next stage. Honestly i have seen this problem for some time now in the Ghana team and thats the reason we keep winning this tie.
@chris if u can relate wat he said to enyeama den its makes perfect sense to relate it to ayew.its a general statemnt n if the cap fits dede he wil wear it.
Well said.
My appeal to Abedi. Talk to your son about discipline. Tell him the way you behaved on the pitch. Our player, Clifford Mulenga was chased from 2012 AFCON in EG and Gabon for indiscipline. These players should realise that they started their careers on the streets of Africa now they want to think African coaches do not think. If it was an expatriate coach, Andre wouldn’t have behaved the way he did. All those guys playing outside Africa should respect us down here. We contributed to their success.
Ah! will you leave Ayew alone… Are we going to talk about his recent attitude forever and ever? Oh
Kalusha didn’t even mentioned Dede in his statement so why is this article related to him anyway? GSN the boy has already apologize so let sleeping dogs lie, WTF!!!
Findly a man with a brain who read the article. This is a disgusting piece of journalism.
kalusha please leave him alone therefore hes not playing 4 u,and u wish hes on ur team.we can handle our own matter u r in ttouble 4 saying these things about him cause next time we meet he will singlehandedly dedyroy u…di wo fie as3m!
i heard da man on bbc sports he neva mention ayews name so is gsn lieing to us.i tink dey enjoy da cyber war between ghana n zambia on dier site
dede, your time of flex is over. there r better players knocking on the door of the bs and u know astu is now the toast
this lazy way of getting news to be published is really killing our sense focus for the interest in journalism. why will GSN not look for real information but copy information from else where and put a different heading to make it look like is theirs. Please Sports Journalist have passion for the job you are doing.
This is a stealth formular for division among the Blackstars. Please Ghana FA and media watch out. There are many rude players in Zambian national Team.
Kalusha Bwalya please dont incite division. Akwasi Appiah and the FA Boss please watch out…..
Kuukuphili or watever behave cos ur soo call ayew is not nomal x u no
The only legend of Zambia football have spoken sensibly.lets leave Dede out of this.
ALL ZAMBIANS NOTE : I don’t know why Zambians are disrespectful on this site.Did Ghana at all create this site for your stupid ass? I hate your stupid comments here with that your stupid English sentences.Who said Ghana has any ravalry with Zambia? Football is a Game .Ghana can win and can loose and what is wrong with that?Village people as Zambians,go back to colonial rule and be civilised.Ghana is not fighting but playing a game of football and I see no reason why these stupid and uncivilised Zambians must ivade this site as if they are people that are at par with Ghanaians!It is a high time GSN requires national id to log on this site.What is wrong with these idiots?Even mighty Brazil is defeated by inferior teams at times so what is wrong with inferior teams like zambia and co defeating Ghana at times?Is this what is making Zambians going mad?Or they are just simply happy because they could defeat Mighty Ghana by chance?I just want all Zambians to know that Ghana has no ravalry with you and your team cannot be compared to Ghana.Zambia has just an inferior team no matter winning last years CAN.Zambia shouls stop decieving themselves by comparing themselves to Ivory Coast, Cameroon,Nigeria Egypt and the mighty Ghana.Foolish people
NB.All educated Zambians who are not on this site for unhealty comments are exempted from this.
dont m9ind ZAMBIA. NAIJA N BURKINA FASO WILL ELIMINATE THEM….
Som of us are married to your women…so its hard 4 u to discard us like dat!!!
@zambia is our toilet hole,u must be a sick fella,how can we beat u twice by chance within a space of two month.u ar rite ghana can not b our rivals coz we ar above u now,wats remains is 4 fifa to correct the ratings come next yr wen we wil wire u again:zambia 1 0 ghana is the next score line.
a zambian typin zambia is our shit hole makes my day hahahaha
@tank God we are nt zambians says really ???? dats nice let me do it again zambia is our toilet hole!!! how do u feel now??? u need some???
Nonsense journalism. GSN is really desperate to link this to Ayew when there was no mention of Ayew and there are so many players the issue could apply to.
Also “thinly veiled” means that the reference to Ayew would have been blatant so how can it be thinly veiled when the comment was a general one. GSN needs to be less eager to generate hits on its site, it comes across as desperate.
Even though I’m ashamed to say it, I insist that most of the Zambian contributors to this site unfortunately write much better English than the Ghanaian contributors. Most of us simply don’t take our time to write and we end up usually writing all the gibberish and usually incoherent contributions we are forced to read on a regular basis. Big up Zambia however I maintain we are better at soccer.
Ghana relax 4 now,but be rest assured that u wil be dismantled 4 the 3rd time in a row when we meet in S.A i hope u’ll man -up and accept that the tables hv turned.
Mustapha Slomo, you’d better be ashamed of yourself for saying most Zambian contributors do write better English and not the best of English as Ghanaians do because Zambian nationals can’t speak even good English left alone writing better English.Now on football l have said and say again that Zambia is an inferior team and can’t be compared to most of the best teams On the continent to be precise Ghana.For all those nonsense your compatriots have been writing on our noble site,Ghana is going to prove to you that Ghana is Ghana .The only African country that has history on the world stage.The only Africa nation who at any level stands for Africa.Relax,January is almost at our door step.Just pray and hope that Zambia could make it out of the first group because Ghana has already made it out.
Shameless Ghanian contributors with no diginity pouring insults on innocent Zambians . Its not bad enganging in debates using appropriate language .When i count the insults ,almost all coming from Ghanians .This will definately tell you tell you the type of people they (specifically the Ghanian who contributon on GSN).Their engangement with Nigerians is not any better .Zambians have been debating with Ugandans and Nigerians ,you cannot find any the type of insults you get from Ghanians.
Agreed. I did not know that Ghanians can insult so much. Anyway, why can’t people discuss issues at hand in a logical and civilised way, probably explains why Africa has so many problems in the midst of rich resources to make it the richest continent in Africa. We have a human resource problem in Africa in short. Football is a game which should unite people and not be a divisive means. Africa rise and condemn hatred among African’s.
@luapula fish, you only insult after being defeated. let the Ghanaians continue insulting so that we hammer them in SA again. Zambia is Zambia
Zambians guys, i believe we are by far well natured and kind than our friends are talking. You know what we came hear to chat football and despite the rivalry in football we considered Ghanaians as friends but it’s a shame how things have turned out here. we are being called all sorts of names and a few of our people are talking really bad and it’s a shame. guys this is the last time am using this site and guys lets leave them. it’s clear they hate us. am gone.
Zambians guys, i believe we are by far well natured and kind than our friends are talking. You know what we came here for, to chat football and despite the rivalry in football we considered Ghanaians as friends but it’s a shame how things have turned out here. we are being called all sorts of names and a few of our people are talking really bad and it’s a shame. guys this is the last time am using this site. Am kindly asing, guys lets leave them. it’s clear they hate us. AM GONE AND REALLY HURT I WONT DENY IT, I LOVED THIS SITE THE DEBATES AND SOCCER TALK, HOW MANY PLACES OR TIMES COULD AFRICAN SOCCER BE DISCUSSED SO MUCH DURING THIS PERIOD WHEN ALOT OF FOCUS IS ON THE EUROPEAN GAMES AND LEAGUES. ITS A SHAME GHANAIANS HAVE CHASED US AND CALLED US NAMES SURELY, OUR BROTHERS CALLING US ”SHITHOLES,PROSTITUTES,INSULTING OUR FALLEN NATIONAL TEAM ETC” PLEASE LETS STOP THIS BOTH ZAMBIA AND GHANA. FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE I AM GONE AND WILL NEVER COMMENT HERE.