Death
On April 27, 1993, the Zambia national team traveled to Senegal for the first of their 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification games in the group stage. The team's mode of transportation was a Zambian Air Force plane. After refueling in Libreville, Gabon, the plane developed problems and plunged into the sea. Thirty people on board including Michael Mwape, the president of the FAZ, Chitalu and eighteen players died in the accident.
Godfrey Chitalu Road in Lusaka is named after Chitalu. In December 2012, Kabwe Warriors announced plans to rename the Railways Stadium as the "Godfrey ‘Ucar’ Chitalu 107 Stadium," as well as erect a statue in his honour.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Then is it sin
To rush into the secret house of death
Ere death dare come to us?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
—Thomas Browne (1605–1682)
“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)