Kalusha Bwalya
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| President of Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 2008–2016 |
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| Preceded by | Teddy Mulonga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Andrew Kamanga | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
16 August 1963 Mufulira, Zambia |
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| Nationality | Zambian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation |
Footballer (retired) Football administrator |
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Association football career
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| Playing position | Forward, winger | ||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1980 | Mufulira Blackpool | ||
| 1980–1985 | Mufulira | ||
| 1985–1989 | Cercle Brugge | 95 | (30) |
| 1989–1994 | PSV Eindhoven | 101 | (25) |
| 1994–1997 | América | 88 | (21) |
| 1997 | Necaxa | 17 | (1) |
| 1998 | Al Wahda | ||
| 1998 | León | 13 | (1) |
| 1999 | Irapuato | ||
| 1999 | Veracruz | ||
| 2000 | Correcaminos | 13 | (5) |
| National team | |||
| 1983–2004 | Zambia | 87 | (39) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2003–2006 | Zambia | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Kalusha Bwalya (The King Kalu) is a Zambian former international footballer. He is Zambia's second-most capped player after Joseph Musonda, second all-time top goalscorer behind Godfrey Chitalu, Kalusha apperanlyby the magazine France Football and was nominated for the 1996 FIFA World Player of the Year where he was voted the 12th-best player in the world, the first to be nominated after playing the entire year for a non-European club.
His older brother Benjamin Bwalya played professional football, and his younger brother Joel Bwalya also played for Zambia. His cousin is former Cardiff City and Welsh national football team international Robert Earnshaw.
His career as a player, coach and president of the Football Association of Zambia is partly shown in the documentary film "Eighteam".
On 20 March 2016, Kalusha lost the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) elections to a renowned businessman-turned football official Andrew Kamanga by 163 to 156 votes in what many thought was an impossible task for the challenger.
Bwalya was a member of the national squad that participated at the 1988 Olympic Games, making his mark with a most famous hat-trick in a 4–0 victory against Italy. At the full international level, he appeared in 147 international matches and scored 100 goals from 1983 to 2004. He debuted against Sudan in April 1983 at Dag Hammarskjoeld Stadium in a Cup of Nations qualifier in Ndola, and scored his first goal against Uganda in a World Cup qualifier the following year at the same venue. He has appeared in multiple tournaments, including six editions of the African Cup of Nations.
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