Zambia furious over alleged match fixing report with Lesotho to ditch Ghana
Posted On Thursday, 14th March 2013
Zambia’s football body has reacted angrily to reports Thursday in the Ghanaian media that Zambia was planning to fix its game against Lesotho.
Media reports from Ghana have alleged that Zambia is trying to buy their FIFA World Cup Group D game against Lesotho to be played in Maseru March 24.
But Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) spokesperson Erick Mwanza reacted angrily to the reports saying it is just mind game being played by the Ghana camp, reports Xinhua.
“Sorry to use this word but it’s stupid rumours. Yes, it’s been brought to our attention,” Mwanza said.
The reports allege that speculation was rife that the FAZ was using every means necessary to stay top of Group D in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers.
The reports have further alleged that FIFA were aware of the plot and would send officials for the game to monitor any irregularities.
Zambia currently lead Group D at six points after collecting three points off Sudan, who fielded an ineligible player during the opening game June 2 which Zambia lost 0-2 in Khartoum.
followed by Ghana on three points while Sudan dropped to third with one point and Lesotho are bottom on one point.
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Its possible…
Zambia can fix it just to keep Ghana at arms length.
Ei! Size-boom jerseys country, is that how you are? You will never qualify for the world cup-2014. Do you want to go & disgrace Africa?
I never knew Ghana as a hostile country like Nigeria. These days we are all the same if not worse.
Nigeria played without big stars and they never complained about anything when they lost or drew with any team, but Ghana wants to throw mud as everyone else except themselves.
When they lost at the World Cup in South Africa, their Coach blamed players’ beliefs in juju.
Today, they want to bewitch zambia and claim matching fixing against Lesotho.
Calm down and play. When you win Praise the Lord and Celebrate and when you loose, thanks God and wait for next time
That’s a word bro, why are they bringing this issue even in an easy fixture? It’s just a known fact Zambia can so easily beat Lesotho. Ghana are just like any average team and they should not be flattered by media attention that they are favorites (for nothing?). Football is played on the pitch, it’s this same Zambia that has beaten Ghana 3 times in a row in competitive FIFA/CAF matches and if Ghana are to prove their worth they just have to beat Zambia in Ghana and the race is still on after all.
what the heck are you talking about nigeria had eminike and victor moses are you retarded?
Lets admit , we used to be Ghana …now we are finished. Lets leave Zambia alone …and stop playing these ancient tricks…Good luck Chipolopolo…
At least u don’t depend on penalties and referees like us to win matches ….
Good luck Chipolopolo
Surely how can we fix,the tables have just turned upside down.Its not Ghana’s time.Africa gave you chance and you squandered through your practice of juju.Grow up Ghana this is 2013 and not 1876 when juju was life
One thing very obvious to me about Ghanaians is that they love to blame. They blame every one else apart from their “blameless selves”. It is always the fault of some one else. It is like once they blame some one then their solution comes. So they solve all their problems by blaming the Zambians, Fulanis, Chinese, Togolese, Nigerians, Referees, Juju, Trokosi Vodoo, Isa Hayatau etc. Always moaning and whining about tribes and nationalities when things don’t favour them. Ugly charcoal cowards.
Ur right Joe, A typical Ghanaian life is full of hate, jelousy and envy. Ghanaians always moaning and whining about other tribes and nationalies, when something don’t favour them.
Two of you are very stupid.
Joe@joe,NG-A condemn Ghananain criminal is betteroff a nigerian archbishop.Eventhogh Ghanains blame each other yet still a muslim can marry a christian in Ghana bt what about the basstard ibo tribes to the sokoto tribes.in Kaduna the ibo man is call a ”haram” meaning abominatn.In lagos,the yurobaman calls ibos the lunatics. At least ghanains blame each otyer bt the nigerians eat each other.nonsense hunger fugitivs. Nigerians dnt qualify to talk abt Ghana.pls com again.
You guys delayed the Lesotho match in Kumasi by 45 min and went on to win by 7-0 yet no one accussed you of fixing the match.What makes you think we cant beat Lesotho even at our lowest?Just admit that this time around,you have a serios uphill battle to top this group and all the odds are against you.Its not your birthright to qualify to the world cup either.
Nice comment!
Zambia are ghana nemesis
Cheapest crap of a joke or call it mind games ever heard from Ghanaian media. Where does all this nonsense come from? Only 2 games (6Points) played with 4 games (12Points) to play and already you Ghanians are already fearing for the worst? Why lose the faith so early and start brandishing Zambia unfairly? Any team in this group stands a chance – just work harder, those are useless traps which are unwelcome in the football fraternity. Kudos to Zambia after all they are recent Champs unlike you worthless favorites who can only this of lifting the AfCON trophy when it was a 4 team tournament 32 years ago and football largely undeveloped (a back pass goalie catches). Accept the current situation.
It is good u have realised we are not in 1876 when one complained about pitches like ur abysmal team did in south Africa. No wonder u exited in such disgraceful circumstances.
Nigeria and Burkinafaso all came from our group.These are the teams which made the final and we played very good football though we had problems with the strike force.We outplayed Burkinafaso who shamed you heavily even with the ref on your side.Capeverde equally shamed you terribbly until the ref saved you with penalty. you went all the way to the semi final through dubious penalties in all the games and yet you still consider yourself as cream of African football.Atleast we never lost a match at CAN 2013 save for our blunt strike force which we are working on starting with the game against Lesotho.We learnt something but we are not ashamed to have made early exit because our group produced the finalists. Herve Renard later said and i quote’we a re better off than teams that are alwayz in the quarter final yet they never win anything’that is Ghana the Blackstars alwayz the favourites year in year out without a trophy for 32 years
I personally blame GSN for making much ado about nuffin, c’mon you know on the streets of Gh, the average ghanaian doesn’t give a hoot about zambia, so if a bunch of you guys who are thankfully employed have nuffin to write about, think it’s fun to poke zambia in da a** by alleging that zambians are fixing the match, do so without involving us(average ghanaians) cos it’s begining to get on ma nerves, the way u guys are making our national team a topic of ridicule…..AH, even to the extent that now, every zambian feels that he has the right to come here and insult us any how….look here GSN, I’d rather u don’t mention their name here at all till we meet them in the last game cos whaty u guys are doing to Ghana is like “washing a kings dirty garment in public, thereby allowing every non entity to push in a f**ken comment or two.” Wise up GSN, cos now nigerians who have no say whatsoever in our WC qualifies are also villifying us oo…….ow me man Ghana, 3nd3 wo na y’3re s3i wo sei? Na kwasia bia tumi ka nkwasis3m fa wo ho sei? Hmm….(Weeping within me)
It is interesting how most of the comments so far are from Zambians and Nigerians. You guys most certainly REALLY LOVE Ghana!
GSN……you see ma f**ken point? Now guys who didn’t even make it out of group stages can come and run their mouths here…saying things like we had fake penalties forgetting the dubious one given them when they played against naija, and also short memoried guys can talk paa here forgetting that ethiopia with a man down scared the shit out of them….drawing two games by the grace of God now makes man so full of himself…mchewww, kwasias3m akwaakwa. GSN wise up oo….yooo!!!
Up Pink stars of Ghana haha
Ghana died in 1982…R.I.P
Ghana are yet to win the afcon wit 16teams participating.they only won it 4times when only 4teams r contesting
I can hear the zambians noise making,80% of the country is infected with deadly desease I want name them…its a shame to be on the same continent with them.we r just waiting 4 u in Ghana just make sure u win all ur games b4 coming because it will be a do or die affair.kwasia fuo!
Don’t these Zambians have a soccer site of their own. I guess they don’t. No wonder why they are always here. GSN is like their paradise
this is a worldwide web, if you dont want us to be commenting,just go intra
Kuukupilly u r a fool wat make u fink Ghana can beat zambia in Ghana.?
Great football nations hav four national teams;under 17,under 20, under 23 nd the snr nationa team.In Ghana their names are; starlet,saetelites,black meteors nd black stars.The women natonal teams in Ghana are:black maiden, black princess nd black queens. Can one of these thes brothers frm zambia tell me the names of their national teams apart frm the well known chipolopolo.indeed zambia is the best in the wrld.
Joe u r mad.your Ghana 32years trophy drought will be extended to 34years in MORROCCO 2015 afcon.Nigeria,Cameroon,cote d ivoire Egypt,tunsia,morrocco and we zambia will fuck you PINK STARS of ghana
@fake Ghana Joe, Nigeria population is 167 million. Igbo tribe population is 49 million, Yoruba tribe population is 51 million, Hausa tribe population 52 million and the remain are for other minor tribes. So u can see that Ghana is a smill village to compared to Igbo tribe or yoruba tribe. Ugly senseless ape like u said a condemn Ghanaian criminal is betteroff a Nigerian archbishop. Yet ur ugly late president John Atta Mills was worshiping and paying tithe to TB Joshua church in Nigeria. Half of Ghana MPs are visiting TB Joshua church in Nigeria and 1001 Ghanaians are busy trooping to TB Joshua in Nigeria. The total population of Ghana is 24 million, yet Ashanti tribe hate Ewe tribe so much. The Ashantis called Ewes Trokosi Voodoo(juju) while the Ewes called Ashantis Sakawa(Ritualist) and ugly people. Kusasi and Mapurisi tribe from Bawku are fighting for past 20 years. Dagobas tribe are busy killing their Kings in North. Ashantis tribe called people from North ” pipalo”. Senseless ape, there are no christians and muslims in Ghana. All u see in Ghana is Trokosi Voodoo(Ewes), Sakawa( Ashantis), King killers( Dagobas) and the rest are immority.
Zambians …. What on earth is wrong with u guys…. Don’t u guys hv website… This is GSN not ZSN… Fools… Go to your website and write stupid comments… The fact is you don’t hv what it takes to play in world cups… Don’t think you have qualify…. Just wait and see… The decider will be in Kumasi …. Foolish Zambians … Who always rain insult to ghanaians …… If you behave well towards us … We Ghanaians will also behave well towards u…
And Ghana soccer net .., so posting articles, comments and any issues concerning this pple… They r not our class….
Most of the comments Zambians leave on this web shows they’re not smart @ all…”Ghana won the African cup when there were only 4 teams particioating”…if u think it was easy with just 4 teams then how come Zambia couldn’t win a single one of those 4 team competition…Ghanaian shldnt waste their time on these ugly mutherfuckers…
Is your todays perception that you are Africas cream intelligent when you have run for 32 years without a trophy?If thats what smartness means were you are then im sorry and no more comment period!
@king- Caf startd 1952.ghana won 54. Zambia won 2012,60 yrs latr. Ghana is only 60 yrs ahead of zambia.meaning by 60 yrs zambia wil hav all the national teams which u wil nt liv.Sorry u cnt b a ghanain.
@joe that’s why I keep calling u a dummy.how come the pink star on Ghana ist qualified for the world cup in 2006?worldcup started in 1930.so ghana qualified almost about 80years of its inception???.ghana r ahead of zambia wit 60yrs absurd comment frm u.uruguay ist won the worldcup in 1930 n 1934 today brazil,italy n Germany have overtaken them.
@king ur point really is?
@kissy jeo says it took zambia 60yrs to win her ist afcon trophy.and I told him It took Ghana 80years to qualify for dier ist worldcup.
Worldcup inception-1930
The Pink stars of Ghana qualified-2006
Almost 80year
@king.u r an imbecile without legs.u won the trophy last year and almost couldn’t qualify and when u did got there u where a disappointment.so am begging u please tell me Wut u will do in Brazil.
the question is what will you do in Brazil if Capeverde and Burkina can toy with you the way they did at AFCON even with the ref on your side?
@kukuphily forgive me if I dint spell ur name correctly.do u know that your Ghana after their last 1982 afcon where anonymous in african football until june october 2005 when they qualified for their ist worldcup.?they dint even make past the group stage in 2006 afcon.let me ask u wat are u people Ghana going to do in brazil.is it bcos ghana have easy opponents in 2006 n 2010. Compared to ivory coast.
Argentina
Holland
Cotedivoire
Montenegro
2010
Brazil
Portugal
North korea.
Ghana is lucky in worldcup groups stages look at ivorycoast own
@Andy 1 cold beer for YOU!!.don’t mind them they forgot that zambia afcon group opponent produced the two Finalist.burkina faso outplayed ghana despite the ref.but burkina faso did not outplay zambia.wakaso wants to d tornament top scorer wit 4 penality wat a shame.
@zambia king- Ghanas frst apperanc WC 2006, nd zambia?all those great footbal natons u mention have four national teams nd Ghana won all caf ndt fifas competitns at all levels bt the BS which hav an identity nd great respect across the wrld. All i demadn to kno is the names of the zambia men nd women national teams.if u cnt then indeed u r 60 yrs behind ghana in africa nd over 100 yrs behind the wrld. U dnt qualify to argue wth ghana.
@jeo u mean ur under 17 is called Green stars,U 20 Ash stars and ur senior trophyless national team PINK stars.come and qualify for 2014 let’s see Ghana worldcup faily tale is over.we r about u beat u 3 consecutive times.we will hurt Ghana.Ghana should start tinking about 2018
@ng- The mst ugliest president evr known under the planet is Obasanjo. Tb joshua 4.1.9 atta mils nd invitd mills to nija nd eventually killed him. No one knos nijas populatn apart frm u alone. What abt the disapptd so-call biafra state? When hav u heard ghana fight war.go ask nija musician,timaya nd he will tell u the bayasas dnt hav parenst cos abacha kiled all of them wth jetfightr.The ibos r in crime exile cos abacha wnt their head. Bokoharam proclaim the shariah law cos the ibos r filty. All nigerians eventually hav Ghanain names all ovr the wrld cos thats the only wy to b safe frm interpole. U idiot shut up nd enjoy ghana cos ther is no spac fr ppl lik u in nija, even the kidnapers dnt need u poor fugitiv,is only the oboni group that would sacrific u when u go near benin boarder. Shut up or else! No more commnt
When fools talk, I just laugh…zambia, where will you be if there was no afcon? To be a footballing nation you need to be seen all round ie: U17, U20, U23 and national teams for both men and women category. But hey if I say that it will be unfair for you minnows so lemme move some steps down to ur level…erm…afcon: zambia 1/ Ghana 4…and your math teachers taught you that 1 is greater than 4…1>4 hahahaha….look I’m a strong Chelsea fan, in our last 7 encounters, Barca has not won a single game, their best is a draw…7 man, 7 encounters no win….but I’ll never go out and run my mouth to people that CHELSEA is better than BARCA, noo it will take a fool to say that or some idiot to get up and say because REAL MADRID won their CL trophies in the past, CHELSEA is better…so zambians, u need to take a chill pill before u go into oblivion,,,,
Dear Ghanians.you know we Sudan have nothing to lose in this wc qualifier.so we can lay down for Ghana to beat us home and away so that they can keep up the pace with Group leader Strong zambia.only if Ghana pay us small amount of money.then we will go to zambia and try to beat them for u people ghana.But ghana must pay for us to help them #sudan fa president
Ghana is Good for ntn Egypt r dominating african football 7times champion.Nigerian women dominating african women championship they won it 7times out of out tornament.Ghana are dumpty humpty
@king-to recap ghanas story-wth trophies-ghana was the frs african country to win nd defnd the caf title fr keep,frst to win caf 4x.U17 caf/fifa- ghana won it 3x nd frst nation to win it fr keep.U20 caf/fifa-Ghana is the frst nd only african country to win the wrld title.U23-caf/fifa we r the currnt defng caf champs.U23 ghana is the frst african team to win fifa silver medal.The blackstars is the frst african country to rich fifa semis. Now to indidual accolade: ghanain ws the frst african footbaler of the yr,Abedi was the frst african to win Uefa champs league,the frs to hav balon dior finalist nominatn,frs african european playr,frst african fifa 11 playr,frst african to win caf best playr 3x.no zambia has evr won caf africas bst nor played in Uefa champs league bt even some of the current U20 squad of ghana lik Acam yet to be kown have already done it whist the liks of kufuor,mutari,essien r all Uefa conqurers.zambia jst giv urself 112 yrs nd u wil b ther probably.
@joe Ghana have won 4 afcon titles last since 32yrs ago maybe u weren’t even born then.I have witnesed my own country win afcon wit my naked Eyes.those FOUR titles did u witness it wit ur own Eye???
MIND YOU—-32yrs to be extended to 34yrs in MORROCCO 2015.cameroon Eygpt nigeria cote d ivoire on one them will win it in 2015.
@joe Ghana took bronze in 2008,silver in 2010.yes Ghana reached four consecutive afcon semi final.some illiterate ghanians call it Consistency!!.is UNDERACHIVIEMENT.why going for bronze nd silver.??WHEREAS THERE IS Ultimate GOLD?losing to the same opponent in form of mali consecutively beating u to bronze.wat a Shame
@kng-wht abt zambia?all the countries u mention have great respct fr Ghana bt wht do u think mahadu gaye think of zambia.it means u admitd you r 112 yrs bhind Ghana. U bttr giv m the names of ur teams now or else ur eyes wil nevr see zambia U17,U20,U23 or chipoliopolio played at the wrld level til u die.
@joe I hv little respect for u b4 but now u have lost d little respect I hv for 4 u.OMG u r supporting mahadou gaye???a stupid egoistic man who does not have respect for his opponent.E.g he said that Zambia is lucky to be in 2012 afcon final that ivory will trash us 4-0 that’s what he said on television.is dat Good??2013 nigeria silenced him outclassed them 2-1.he does not respect or give credit to his oppenents zambia.madoua gaye is arrongant hopless soccer analylist
“Herve Renard later said and i quote’we are better off than teams that are
alwayz in the quarter final yet they
never win anything” this is a comment by one andy…..gentleman please isn’t HR the same guy who said your guys were reserving the goals for the afcon? You believed him and what happened? After that he went on to insult you guys by giving a flimsy excuse that your team were not SEXY enough that’s why you were not fancied to rep africa…and as usual zambians were behind him, you don’t feel shy enough that the whole world can see you’re still being colonized…and now have the guts to tell us this shit, that your colonial master says that you are better than a team that has always been consistent at afcon because you won the previous edition…mediocre minded guys like you, if spain showed this attitude do you think they’d still be the world best? Look here zambians, ask your colonial master HR whether he could do this in Gh or Angola ? He wouldn’t even dare to dream it cos he would have been fired right after the press conference, well our past is your future so why does it even baffle me that zambians are happy with their deteriorating state?1st fight for freedom in your country before coming to brag about winning an afcon and failing woefully the nxt year.
YEs that quote is directed to Ghana who think qualifing for 4 consecutive afcon semi final is been competitive and consistent.Is called underachievement.Why should Ghana be stopping at semi- final??.Why not Reach the Finals??shoot for the moon.that why renard said that is better….bla bla bla
“shoot for the moon.that why renard
said that is better….bla bla bla” thanks for ending it with bla bla bla…cos we all know that what HR is saying is bullshit,he said it after you guys were forcefully and unceremoniously kicked out of the afcon so how can you be better than us? When you aimed for the moon but your bullet couldn’t make it out of the gun in the 1st place?
Instead of you silly Ghanains to concentrate on ur match against sudan u people are falsely accusing us of wanting to fix d match against letheso.u guys are already afraid and shivering.moment of truth of Ghana football.u people have to win all ur 4 remaining matches to qualify ahead of us zambia.
Joe@kng-anywy,i kno u respct m of course,bt hey, the truth hav to b told. Ghana is the eye of africa comes to facts.Not to mention Marcel Desail,the 1st african to captain european side,france. Gerald Asamoah 1st followd by David Donkor,Jerome Boateng to play 4 altime mighty nd racist Germany,Super Mario Balotelli 1st african to ply 4 italy, all wrld footbal nd political powers nd wrld cup winners. Ghana hav led africa by example in everyway,even the recent Roman Catholic Pope ghana almst bcome the 1st black pope,not to talk of Kofi Annan nd UN.Sorry it wil bothr u bt is jst the truth.zambia will get ther bt in couple of decades ahead.cheers zambia king,we wil chart anthr dy.
Let me say it again there is no shame in our afcon Exist because our group opponents are the two finalist
1- interestingly none of them beat us.
2-burkina faso did not outplay us like they did to PINK STARS OF GHANA despite referee helping u people.are we talking about penality awarded to u Ghana?or burkina faso disallowed goal?or harsh redcard given to pitriopa?or penality they didn’t award to bukina faso.PINK STARS losing to mali again by the margin of 2 goals.hahaha
2012- mali 2-0 Ghana thirdplace
2013-mali 3-1 Ghana thirdplace.
SHAME!!!!!
Ghana pls don’t kill ur coach.we zambia are not disturbing renard
@joe pls call those u mention their name ballotelli,desally,gerald asamoah etc call them to coach/play for Ghana so that they will help u people End the ALMIGHTY 32year drought!
The past two AFCONS ghana has been minting CHARCOAL.
Hahaha Ash stars of Ghana
CAF and FIFA are punishing Ghana for Sudan’s error. That is not fair. The Ghana FA should have filed a protest. The CAF officials should have known better than to allow Sudan to field an ineligible player. If they failed to do their jobs why should Ghana have to suffer for it? By awarding Zambia the 3 points for CAF officials incompetence Ghana is being unfairly relegated to an inferior position on the group table and I think this is unfair and conspiratorial.
@african consciousness stop moaning and whinning ok let me ask you.what if zambia beat sudan legitimately?Ghana has no buiness wit d points awarded to zambia.win all your four remaing matches and Ghana will qualify for d worldcup last round.football has rules.imagine we zambia beating u Ghana with an ineligible player.and d ineligible player score a Goal.will u ghanains accept it??
@ King u are wrong. It will be Zambias 4 consecutive win over ghana. In 2006, Joe Bwalya unleashed a long range thunderbot 2 beat Ghana 1 nil at Afcon 1996 in a third & 4th tier decider. So let these foolish dark stars of africa talk but Zambia is a superpower of this continent. Three of those cups u won if not all thru juju, Zambia was not there only 4 participants so subtract. Even this time u are a superpower in juju.
@the great hahaha u right.zambia will also beat Ghana in kumasi or draw wit them and qualify for worldcup last round of qualification