Freddie Mwila
Freddie Mwila in 2012
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 6 July 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Kasama, Northern Rhodesia | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1960–1963 | Wusakile Youth Club | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1966 | Rhokana United | ||
| 1967–1969 | Atlanta Chiefs | 72 | (17) |
| 1969–1970 | Aston Villa F.C. | 1 | (0) |
| 1970 | Rhokana United | ||
| 1971 | Atlanta Chiefs | 22 | (5) |
| 1971–1973 | Rhokana United | ||
| 1973 | Atlanta Apollos | 19 | (3) |
| 1973–1977 | Ndola United | ||
| National team | |||
| 1965–1974 | Zambia | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1973–1977 | Ndola United | ||
| 1978 | Nkwazi F.C. | ||
| 1978–1979 | TAFIC | ||
| 1979–1985 | Power Dynamos | ||
| 1986 | Ziscosteel F.C. | ||
| 1987–1990 | Circuit Chiefs F.C. | ||
| 1990–1992 | Power Dynamos | ||
| 1992–1993 | Township Rollers | ||
| 1992–1993 | Botswana | ||
| 1993 | Zambia | ||
| 1994–1996 | Township Rollers | ||
| 1994–1996 | Botswana | ||
| 1996–1997 | Zambia | ||
| 1997–1998 | Qwa Qwa Stars | ||
| 1998–1999 | Zanaco | ||
| 2000 | Lusaka Dynamos F.C. | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Freddie Mwila (born 6 July 1946) is a Zambian former association football player and coach. Rated as one of the country's greatest players and coaches, he featured for Rhokana United and was one of the first Zambians to play professional football abroad when he joined American side Atlanta Chiefs in 1967. Mwila also played for Aston Villa in England and made an impact as a coach, leading Power Dynamos to the 1991 African Cup Winners' Cup and coached several other club sides as well as the Zambia and Botswana national teams.
Mwila was born in Kasama and was raised by his grandparents because his father Dismas Chilufya and mother Senefa Chola were working in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and moved to Kitwe in 1952 when his grandfather decided to move him to the Copperbelt so that he could start school.
In 1954, he started school at Danbar Primary School where the heavy industrial area in Kitwe stands today. He later moved to Buseko Primary School where Mwila was involved, like many other young boys on the Copperbelt, in playing football in the townships where nothing but buttons were at stake.
He left Buseko to continue his schooling at Mindolo Primary School where his teachers, without realising the potential he had for football, made him play other sports like boxing, until he left for Kalela School in Wusakile Mine township. Mwila continued playing football at Kalela and was very keen on watching soccer matches at Scrivener Stadium where he managed to be present at almost every game through being a ball-boy.
The young Mwila joined Wusakile Youth Club where he witnessed the formation of an under–five-feet team of which he was made captain. They played a similar team from Luanshya nearly every month and this was how he came into contact with players like Boniface Simutowe, Sandy Kaposa and Simon Kapende. They also played against teams from other Copperbelt towns.
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