Kennedy Nketani

Nketani Kennedy ( born December 25, 1984 in Lusaka ) is a Zambian football player. The central defender is at Zanaco FC under contract from 2005 to 2008 in the Zambian national team active.

Club career

Nketani changed from the third division Makumbi Stars to City of Lusaka FC, ​​where he moved into the starting line- after a few months. In early 2003 he moved to 19 -year-old Zanaco FC and won with immediately in his first season, the league title. The following season he won with Zanaco the Zambian Coca Cola Cup, while they lost in the final of the BP Top 8 Cup league rival Red Arrows FC. In 2006 he also won this title after a victory over the Rangers Nchanga. 2005, 2006 and 2009, also followed by three more championship wins.

National team career

2005 Nketani came in the World Cup qualifier against Togo for the first time in the Zambian national team used. For the 1:4 defeat, he was jointly arranged with goalkeeper Kalililo Kakonje as the main culprit. But unlike Kakonje, suffered his career in the National Dress a damper, but he established himself as a regular player on the side of Elijah Tana and thus beat out competitors Billy Mwanza and Sashi Chalwe.

Between 2005 and 2007 he stood in three successive finals of the COSAFA Cup. The victory in 2006 is adjacent to the success in the same year in the CECAFA Cup of largest to date Nketani success for the national team. In 2006 he was appointed to the squad for the African Cup of Nations and was in all three group games over the full length of the side of Tana on the court. In the African Cup of 2008 he was again in the squad Zambia, but was still before half time replaced after a failure in the match against Cameroon Hijani Himoonde and no longer used in the final group game.