Nkana, Lusaka Dynamos get FIFA transfer bans

ZAMBIAN Super Division clubs Nkana and Lusaka Dynamos have been slapped a transfer ban by the world football governing body FIFA.

And Nkana chief

e ecutive officer harles ha ata a confirmed

having received a statement from FIFA prohibiting the team from doing any transfers in the next three transfer windows.

According to a tweet on

uesda the ederation

of Internationale Des Association de Footballeurs Proffessionels named two Zambian clubs Lusaka Dynamos and Nkana among others as having been handed transfer bans.

ha ata a said that the

decision was as a result of former goalkeeper Steven Adams who the club owed money and has since been advised not to make any transfers until the player was paid.

Nkana was ordered to pay Ghanaian goalkeeper

dams plus five percent interest per annum ac in a

for breach of contract.

The 35-year-old joined

ana after si nin

a three-year deal on a free transfer in January

ut had his contract

terminated after just six months.

Lusaka Dynamos

oot all lu secretar

Oliver Shalala said the club had not received any such communication from the

lo al pla ers’ union.

Shalala said that FIFPRO did not have any jurisdiction to ban any club as it was merely an NGO representing players.

He said that he was of the view that the

pla ers’ union was onl

communicating what it felt

was ’s decision on the

club and that Dynamos had not yet received that decision.

Lusaka Dynamos were last year docked six points by FIFA after failing to comply with a directive to settle all dues owed to the Ghanaian duo of Sheriff Deen and Abdul Latif Mohammed during the

transitional lea ue.