George Lwandamina
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 5 August 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
|
Young Africans Yanga Tanzania (coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1981–1983 | CISB | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1984–1985 | Mutondo Stars | ||
| 1985–1986 | Mufulira Blackpool | ||
| 1986–1995 | Mufulira Wanderers | ||
| National team | |||
| 1987–1989 | Zambia | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1997–2000 | Mufulira Wanderers | ||
| 2002–2009 | Green Buffaloes | ||
| 2009–2010 | Kabwe Warriors | ||
| 2010 | Zambia (interim) | ||
| 2011–2014 | Red Arrows | ||
| 2014–2015 | ZESCO United | ||
| 2015–2016 | Zambia | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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George Lwandamina (born 5 August 1963) is a former Zambian footballer and current head coach of the Zambia national football team. He had a brief career with Zambia and won several trophies as a defender with Mufulira Wanderers.
Lwandamina was born and brought up in Mufulira's Kamuchanga township where his mother supported his love of football by buying him rubber footballs. His father died when he was ten years old so he was taken in by his aunt who lived in Kitwe's Wusakile township, where one of the teachers at Wusakile Primary School spotted him playing football and got him a place at the school and he started playing for the school team as a striker.
He later moved to Justin Kabwe Primary School but had to stop school in the 5th grade as he had no one to pay his school fees. During this time, he worked on his soccer skills and when he resumed his education, he went straight to the final grade and easily passed the exams to qualify to Ndeke Secondary School.
His two year absence from the class room motivated him to complete his schooling and dispel the notion that footballers are dull so he took his studies seriously and stayed away from football. However, the school's Sports Master soon discovered that he had a talented player who preferred not to play for the school so he invited Lwandamina to join the team but gave him a whipping first. Despite only being in the eighth grade, he was named captain ahead of his seniors and he ended up captaining his school team for the entire five years that he was at Ndeke Secondary.
Lwandamina earned call-ups to the Copperbelt and Zambia Secondary Schools teams and his leadership qualities were recognized as he later became a prefect at Ndeke Secondary, where his school-mates nicknamed him "Chicken" after cock fighter Chicken George in Alex Haley's Roots. With his interest in soccer re-ignited, he joined amateur side CISB where he played with Kenneth Malitoli and Kapambwe Mulenga, and would visit his mother in Chingola during the school holidays, where he would feature for Chiwempala Leopards.
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