Zambian football teeters on a FIFA precipice

LUSAKA: These are tense days for Zambian football. Police now maintain a regular presence at Football House, the Lusaka headquarters of the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ).

But they are not kitted out in soccer jerseys; they are in full riot gear. In anticipation of trouble, presumably.

Little has been happening on football fields, lately. Premier league fixtures have had to be abandoned for want of match officials while referees have boycotted games to press their demands for an emergency council meeting of FAZ affiliates to "map out the way forward for Zambian football".

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