 As promised yesterday I told you I was going to say something about what is prevailing with our women's national soccer team who right now in Australia and about to kick off their World Cup and you know there are a lot of disturbing reports regarding our women's team I don't know if you have noticed but every time that the women's team goes to a big tournament there are always issues that follow them. The last time they went to the WAFKON or the Women's African Cup of Nations there was an issue of Barbara Banda being left out of the squad and we asked first explain why was Barbara Banda left out of the squad despite being eligible to play. We didn't get any answers from there until the issues now went international. Kaft got involved, FIFA got involved that's when first came around now to try and explain to us why Barbara Banda didn't play in that tournament where we did the exceptionally well. So these issues we cannot look away from them and some of us who are leaders are bound to speak for the voiceless and right now the Go Keeper for Zambia National team has been sent back home and Zambians want to know as a football supporter I want to know why has Zambia Schipolopolo best Go Keeper she's been with them for over 11 years she has transmitted greatly to the success of this team even them going to the World Cup is because she made so many saves she's the safest pair of hands we have even as at present but she was sent back home on the excuse to say she has an injury now we all know that that is not the truth there is more to it yes she's got an injury yes even herself she administers she's got an injury but since when we players who are on the FIFA list because she's on the FIFA list of accredited players who are who have been registered to to play in a in Australia New Zealand World Cup why has been she's why has she been sent home and we know the whole matter started with the issue of allowances the players were before this is Polo Polo played their friends I don't know which one it was against Ireland or some other team there was an issue about allowances and Nali and others were one of those that raised their voices and say look we have come to a different tournament but you are still owing us money for the last tournament they played at World Cup roughly 100,000 each and we asked we have been asking fans to say can you produce a statement of account to prove if at all you are all in these ladies any money in terms of allowances or you are not Z that is the arrogance you have with fuzz they feel like they are an independent entity upon themselves that's why even their leader feels that he can challenge the minister of sports forgetting that fuzz is simply a sub division an institution under the control and the direction of the ministry even today as we are speaking they have not explained anything about allowances the only thing that I've said is Nali has been ruled out of the World Cup because of injury quite alright let's say that she's been injured let's say that she has been injured why have they sent her back home why couldn't she stay there Barbara Banda sat on the bench at the Waafkan women's Africa Cup of Nations she was not eligible we fought for I was one of those who 42th and now to put fuzz in the corner to explain really what is happening and because of the pressure that we put this time around she's playing nobody has brought up those funny provisions you say no she's got too much testosterone in her whatever hormones there's been nothing like that this time she's playing because of your effort and my effort in speaking out for the voiceless these players cannot speak for themselves because if they do they'll be sanctioned already you know there's the issue of allegations of sexual harassment which were even brought up when this same national team coach Polapolo when they beat a Germany in the last friendly I didn't say anything about that a lot of Zambia's didn't say anything because we know these are just our grips these Western media they didn't believe that an African team can beat Germany the so-called team where football started the country where football started that's all they say they didn't believe that you could put them so for me those allegations they might be true or they might be not but that cannot be our focus we know the reason why and the moment I just saw to say it was sky sport and CNN project I used to say they were just now trying to mentally distribute that's why I never said anything for me that did not matter for a lot of Zambian's that does not matter those allegations we can talk about them later what we want is a successful stay and the tournament for the girls but apparently first is still determined to create the same confusion which they usually call which we they usually create and now the confusion is that team our best goal keeper has been sent home based on a ninja and the ladies have not been paid the copper queens they have not been paid their losses so this thing of sending a home likely more likely than not it's an issue of personal differences between the coaching staff and this player I cannot be mistaken to think and this is what a lot of people believe that they are trying the sending back has your back home and I'm sending a back home is because they want to remain with that 30,000 because most of you know that these girls we paid about 30,000 just for quite fine they've already been paid $30,000 and they're going to be given that money because that money is going to the first account or it's going to be the first account if they were not paid what they played for in the off code what's guaranteed we have that they will be paid what they have what they're going to play for at the World Cup the highest tournament for women in the in the world those that are talking about no let's be patriotic let's not allow this confusion confusion is already there as it goes to confusion sending the best player home based on an injured why didn't they keep her we have watched it's not the first time that we are watching football we have watched football for a very long time there are a lot of teams that had their best players injured but those players those best players they stayed on at those tournaments why because these players when you have a player who's injured you keep them in the team even on the bench because they provide morale they provide an impotence for those players that are going to play to say let's do this let's do this for injured the comrades or injured the colleagues her being on the bench an injured player being on the bench is an extra morale booster not sending them home what they have done what father's done has just demoralized the team now you went together got on the plane together you're singing songs of morale and booster together you played friends together then your colleague your best co-keeper is sent home if she had been left on the bench and she's entitled let her get that money what we want here is justice for Nadi let her stay on and repaid her money she contributed to take race Zambian women's national team to where they are today through all the tournaments she's been with them since 2010 I don't know if it's when 11 years she's been with them she deserves to sit even if it means sitting on the bench let her sit there and get paid but what we are seeing is that these coaching staff they want to send her home so that maybe they can they can misappropriate those fans we don't know it could be the reason why they are so determined to send her home even if she's part of the qualifying team listed by fevers those that are going to play in the in the World Cup listed in the database in the database her name is there Nadi as you is there but she has been sent home and on top of that we've got issues of these ladies are not being paid being paid their allowances far back as after you people that are saying no let's be proprietary let's not go cause confusion we're going to cause confusion let's just focus on winning what is the what the morale booster when you're sending some players home keep them if she's on the list that is supposed to be played on the list that have been submitted for FIFA for players at the World Cup let her stay on we have watched many World Cups they there was a time when David Baker England he was injured they didn't send him back home he stayed on the bench until the end of the tournament we have seen players like Zinedine Zidane they were injured during the World Cup they had to tie him with a bandage on his left leg he only played 20 minutes he had to come out but he stayed on in the tournament we have had players like Cristiano Ronaldo they're injured even at club level you see a player is injured but there is not on the bench but on the stands why do you think they do that because those people provide morale and impedance to their comrades who are on the field their colleagues who are on the field they give them a reason to fight let's fight for a player that has been excluded but now we have a situation where Nali Hazel as we are speaking she's now in Zambia and she won't be entitled to get her allowance so you see the evil in that you see the injustice in that and if you and me as supporters because we are stakeholders we are stakeholders of football we are supporters we are stakeholders can there be football without you and me can there be football without fans like you and me there would be no football these ladies they win and they play they play their best because they know back home here we are all watching we are all behind them so people are saying no we bring confusion we are not the one who are bringing confusion fuzz is the one that is bringing confusion and fuzz has got a history of bringing confusion in football every time there's a tournament there is something to talk about if it's not Barbara Banda now it is Nali Hazel first it was our top striker who was excluded and you could have gone far with her on the field in the wafkan she was excluded fuzz did nothing to fight for her they only said no she's been excluded based on tests which she she felt they did nothing to fight for Barbara Banda it was you and me who fought tooth and nail for Barbara Banda even for the issue to come into the media not just Zambia media but international media it came out even Patrice Montsepe the CAF president had to say something about it because of what you and me say we the stakeholders must not narrate ourselves we have influence our voice can be heard so right now our voice should be heard you should say something about this girl you should say something to support this girl how can you allow her to come back home and not get anything how evil how evil can can people be depriving her she's on the list they are depriving of what they have removed they haven't even told us okay if you have removed from this who have you put there Z no one knows the answer allowances have they answered how much are they owing the school polo will you know they are owing how much are they owing Z what is the extent of the injury can she hear you in a week or two or to take months nothing these are the sorts of injustices that we must speak out against for these girls because they are in a position where they can't voice for themselves lastly the issue of alleged sexual abuse of the girls that issue we shouldn't even give it much thought at the moment at the moment you shouldn't give it much thought because that was just a ploy by those that want to discourage our our team there in New Zealand and Australia just to destabilize our psychological they heard about it some months ago why did they why didn't they raise it then after they we beat them and that's when they raised it so let us not play into the hands of our enemies by even discussing the issue Bruce Muapiali and alleged sexual abuse I saw the clip where they were interviewing him I think let's not slander a man's character like that let's allow the due process of investigations and everything to go on when they come back let's not be asking no is that true is it not true no let them play their football there and let them come back then we can ask the questions then we can ask first can you do an investigation about this person before we judge him wrong but the main bone of the matter is Hazel Nali our best goalkeeper how will that affect our performance at the women's world cup because definitely the absence of Barbara Banda whether we like it or not our top striker we were dry with girls we might not have scored here and there in the Ufcon but we were dry Barbara Banda could have made a huge difference had she played in the Ufcon but she was absent we only went so far that's why we fought tooth and nail for her to come back in the team today she's in the team because of you and me now it is now in Nali Hazel our best goalkeeper yes injured but why sent her back home that's the only thing that we're asking okay she's injured let us stay on the bench because why do you want on the bench one to provide the encouragement and morale for teammates who are going to play two for her to get paid simple those are the only things that we want we want her to stay on we wanted her to stay on the bench there even if she's injured to provide encouragement one two to get paid her 30 000 if we go past the group stages we do the same finals maybe they only get as much as 100 000 each why depriving these chowds when she deserves it no they can be no question of oh no we will have a shortage of goalkeepers no the FIFA stipulation the FIFA rules America even if we are not experts but we know every tournament every foot every club carries about three goalkeepers first choice second choice and third choice there are still two more goalkeepers who they have that side so they can't say no we will be short of goalkeepers no we're not short of midfielders and defenders so the regulations are clear there are still two goalkeepers there if the west goes to the west that even the one if these two goalkeepers if one of them got injured we will still have another one if that one got injured as well we have the dispensation and the FIFA regulations to apply for an emergency a special approval to say look this tournament we have had the goalkeepers injured can you please get another person from Zambia to come and play to to come and cover so you can apply for that you can apply for that but i can tell you in the history of football ever since i started watching football i've never seen first choice injured second choice injured and third choice injured in one tournament it has never happened and i don't think it's going to happen so why was they hurry why was they are they hurry by fuzz to recall now say no she's injured quickly quickly put her on a plate she's not even limping she's walking on herself we would have expected no this she's been injured she's coming back on a wheelchair she didn't have a corner wheelchair you have seen the photos she was walking she was even drawing a very heavy bag somebody that is seriously injured can draw a heavy bag walk on her own to the airport get on a flight get on an escalator down a escalator injured person seriously injured no no this is an injustice that has been done to quickly send her on a flight that's an injustice and we have no clear answers from fuzz so fellow supporters this is a serious issue should take for me in closing for me this tournament we are supposed to go as far as the semifinals that's how far we can go and that's how far we could have gone with or without without without Nali Hazio with or without we're supposed to go to semifinals if she had stayed on the bench if she had stayed all in Australia believe me the morale in that team would still be high they will say quite all right our comrades our colleagues you are injured but we are there for you we'll cover you we'll play for you and whatever we win you also win our allowances our allowances that's what a team is all about teams stick together through thick and thin they don't separate there so that's that let's speak for this year and let's quite a lot she's back but let's demand that whatever the women's team win the money that they will get let this girl also be paid her fair share in full we don't want people removing players then sharing the money we don't want that we don't want that because for Zambia you never know but in some sense there's mathematics behind we are not young kids we know something fish is going on here and sooner or later the truth shall come thank you very much for watching