Augustine Mulenga of Zambia during the 2018 CHAN quarter finals football game between Zambia and Sudan at the Grand stade Marrakech (Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix)
Mulenga completed his move to Orlando Pirates in the last week of the January transfer month.
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“Orlando Pirates were looking for a player who was expected to walk straight into their team and be able to do it,” Mutale told Lusaka Times.
“Augustine had a lot of agents looking for clubs but none of them made a concrete offer.
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“We had three or four people from Europe inquiring but people were using his age as a liability implying that at 28 he wasn’t worth much.
“Pirates specifically looked at his age as a main selling factor.”
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