The problem with the Malawi Flames has never been the Coach or lack of talent with our footballers. The blame lies solely on funding and poor leadership at Football association of Malawi led by Mr. Walter Nyamilandu who if social media can be believed is vying for yet another term.
The football players have at times showed brilliance, like when in 2010 they upset mighty Algeria. The problem has been consistency and maximizing on their potential. In fact there is a saying that even a good coach cannot win without talent. Good coaches are those that make the individual talents work well together to make a team.
You noticed that I have not blamed the support or lack of support from the Malawi Government. The Malawi Flames and Malawi football is a very popular product in Malawi. However the powers to be starting with Walter Nyamilandu and the people that came before him have no idea on how to leverage Malawi football as a commodity that is in high demand.
The failure of the people at the Helm of Football in Malawi to maximize the earning of Football has allowed our teams to have mixed results or at worst under perform.
Most of the time we are having coaches try to motivate under-paid, unhappy and underappreciated football players.
Walter Nyamilandu has no idea on how we can maximize the earning potential of Football in Malawi. By paying all football players living wages from premier league players to the lower leagues, we will create motivated players. We do not want our football players to be part time. We want the Football players to feel like they have skin in the game.
I do have ideas how Malawi Football can be able to raise enough funds to support its activities at the league and national levels, Ideas I am not going to share on these pages because I think I can do Nyamilandu’s job a lot better than he has done to date.
I also believe I am capable of growing winning football at all levels in Malawi because there is enough talent that just needs to be natured. Young Chimodzi and Jack Chamangwana were given by Nyamilandu an impossible mission. They were not provided the right tools to succeed.
Any other coach hired will face the same obstacles and will end up failing as well. The First person to fire should be Nyamilandu before we waste our time hiring a coach who will get the job with his hands already tied like the others before him.
The Name Kinnah Phiri also comes to mind as well. A very good coach and one of the best Footballers Malawi ever produced was dealt the same hand by FAM. He failed at this job not because he was a bad coach but because his boss was Walter Nyamilandu.
They say If the fish is rotten look at its head first.
