Jack Chanda played for three of Zambia's biggest clubs Roan United, Nkana Red Devils and Kabwe Warriors in a successful career that saw him being crowned as Zambian Footballer of the Year in 1985.
20 Facts About Jack Chanda
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Jack Chanda was the second born in a family of ten of which three were boys and his grandfather was Chief Mwinuna of the Lamba-speaking people of Mpongwe District.
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Jack Chanda attended Makoma Primary School and later Roan Antelope Secondary School together with his immediate younger brother Lackson.
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Jack Chanda chose the catchy first name of "Jack" and assumed his father's middle name Machanda, which later changed to Chanda, the same as that of his hero and Roan United star, Bernard Chanda.
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Jack Chanda spent his youth years with Mpatamatu Police Amateur Club before joining FAZ Division III side Buseko Football Club in 1975.
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Jack Chanda was then signed by top league team Roan United in 1978 and featured for the Zambia Schools National Team in the same year alongside future international teammates John Kalusa and Ashols Melu.
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Jack Chanda soon became one of Roan's stand-out attacking players but silverware eluded the Luanshya side with several mid-table finishes.
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Jack Chanda however stunned the Kitwe club when he left Nkana soon after their title winning season for Kabwe Warriors and the fans never forgave him for this.
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Jack Chanda underwent an operation but the doctors who attended to him said it was unlikely that he would play again that season.
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Jack Chanda found that most of his compatriots like Albert Bwalya, John Mwanza and Clement Banda had moved on but working with a young crop of players, such as Timothy Mwitwa, Samuel Chomba, James Chitalu, Linos Chisanga, Noel Chama and Moxon Mugala, he led Warriors to the 1987 league championship.
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Jack Chanda ended the season as the second highest scorer after Bonnie Muma of Power Dynamos.
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Jack Chanda featured twice at CAN 1982 as Zambia reached the semifinals.
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Jack Chanda gave us a hell of a time in Sudan hence for the return match we specifically assigned Shimms el Din to contain his mobility.
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Jack Chanda featured prominently for Zambia at CECAFA 1984 when Zambia won the trophy after years of failure though he missed the final after accumulating two yellow cards.
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Jack Chanda then sustained a broken leg in a league match against Strike Rovers in April 1986 which ruled him out of action for the rest of the year.
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Jack Chanda obtained his coaching diploma in West Germany and when title winning coach Bizwell Phiri left to take up a job in South Africa early in the 1988 season, Jack Chanda was named Warriors coach.
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Jack Chanda was relieved of his duties the following season and reassigned to another Zambian Super League team Railway Express FC who shared the same sponsors as Warriors.
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Jack Chanda however was not happy at Express and moved to Botswana halfway through the season to take over as coach at Notwane.
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In early 1993, Jack Chanda began experiencing poor health and he returned to Zambia in partial paralysis and was admitted to Kabwe General Hospital with breathing difficulties.
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Jack Chanda spent four weeks there before passing away on 20 April 1993, a week before the Gabon air crash which claimed the lives of 18 Zambia national team players.