Chipolopolo coach, Grant’s salary to remain top secret

The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) says detail of the salary of the new national team coach Avram Grant are confidential.

FAZ General Secretary Adrian Kashala said the association was not comfortable announcing to the public how much the coach will be getting in respect to the former Chelsea and Ghana national team coach who has been given a two year performance based renewable contract.

“We are not comfortable to show details of the conditions of service for the coach. I think we all of us are coming from institutions where we work and don’t lay our pay slips bare for the public to see in the interest of respect we will not do that for now,” Kashala said.

Meanwhile, FAZ president Andrew Kamanga said Grant was reasonably happy with what has been offered by both FAZ and Government that is why the Israelite agreed to become the Chipolopolo’s head gaffer.

“FAZ and Government have got an MoU which caters for the payment of the coach so that is a matter that is subject to the MoU but off course if the coach is here it means he is reasonably happy with what has been offered by FAZ and Government,” Kamanga said.

On Wednesday December 22, FAZ Unveiled Grant as the new Chipolopolo gaffer to take over from Aljosa Asanovic.

FAZ has given Grant a two years performance based contract subject to renewal based on how he will perform in his first stint as national team coach.

Meanwhile Kamanga said FAZ has signed agreements with the Croatian and Moroccan football federations to help build capacity among local coaches who missed out on a Chipolopolo top job due to a lack of a Pro Coaching Licence.

Kamanga said FAZ will next year send five coaches to Morocco to attain the CAF Pro license which is a minimum qualification for a coach to be able to coach anywhere in the world.

“we hope that once we set up a coaching school here we will increase the number of Zambian coaches with pro licenses so that they can equally go and coach anywhere in the world.

“This is the minimum standard to coach is a pro license so if we can have as many Zambians attaining that qualification that in itself will go a long way in addressing the shot comings that we have so this is where we are with coach qualifications,” Kamanga said.