Expelled Zambia winger Clifford Mulenga
Expelled Zambia winger Clifford Mulenga has admitted to MTNFootball.com that he was wrong to go out on the town late Monday in Malabo.
He said he is now back to his South African club Bloemfontein Celtic older and wiser following his Africa Cup expulsion by Zambia coach Herve Renard.
Mulenga told MTNFootball.com before boarding a flight from Malabo to South Africa that he was putting the late night out drinking scandal with four of team mates behind him.
“What I did was wrong and I have learnt from it,” a sober Mulenga said.
“I have spoken to my coach back at Celtic and he has told me to come back and focus and start from where I left off before I went to the Africa Cup.”
The winger on Monday evening breached the team curfew and rules and went out drinking in Malabo with team mates Jonas Sakuwaha, Felix Katongo, Hichani Himoonde and Collins Mbesuma who were reprimanded.
Mulenga did not play a single game at the Africa Cup of Nations, where the Chipolopolo are on the verge of booking a place in the last four at the expense of Sudan this weekend.
His expulsion was the second major fallout by the one-time African Young Player of the Year with the national team after he clashed in 2009 with Renard over team call-ups.
Then he vowed never to play for Zambia after the French coach repeatedly snubbed him and he quit the national team before he was convinced to come back by his advisors./QFM
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