Since its foundation, Zambia international team never made it to the World Cup. However, the women’s team were better and secured their place (for the first time) in the most prestigious FIFA competition, which is currently held in Australia and New Zealand. The results are not so good, as the team lost its first two games (5-0 against Japan and 2-0 against Spain) and now more dark clouds are gathering over the women’s team. And it’s related to their coach, who is under suspicion of sexual misconduct with his players.Scandal grips Zambia! “If the coach wants to sleep with you, you have to say yes”Coach Bruce Mwape is in his fifth year as Zambia coach, but have been under the media spotlight due to this serious allegations. According to the Guardian, an unnamed player on the team had claimed:“If Mwape wants to sleep with someone, you have to say yes. It’s normal that the coach sleeps with the players in our team”.Zambia sent packing out of Women’s World Cup after humbling against SpainAfter the game with Spain, one Spanish journalist attempted to ask Mwabe about these accusations, but he refused to answer, after which a FIFA official told reporters to ‘restrict questions to the football and tournament only’. Mwabe then spoke about a possible resignation from his post.“What environment, affecting the team, in particular? What are you talking about? I would like to know, because there is no way I can resign without reason. Maybe your reason is because of what you are reading from the media, or from the press, but the truth of the matter should actually come out, not just rumours” said Zambian coach.FIFA WWC: Japan dismantle debutants Zambia in brilliant five-star showHis native football federation opened the internal investigation over the matter and informed FIFA.“Although we have no record of official complaints from anyone on the allegations, we consider these allegations very serious and have opened an inquiry into the matter. We shall collaborate with the Zambia Police Service and other relevant stakeholders in dealing with this matter” FAZ general secretary Adrian Kashala said earlier in the year.##NAJAVA_MECA_7390057##
