 Despite being 18 years old, he was chosen to lead the front line and he scored the first goal in a 3-0 win over Tanganyika and two more when Northern Rhodesia swamped Nyasaland 5-0 to win the Ufulu Cup in Blantyre.Despite this, he was left out of the Zambian team during the country’s independence tournament in October 1964 which featured Kenya, Ghana and Uganda, and Zambia lost all their games.He returned to the team when Zambia traveled to Nairobi in December 1964 for the Kenyan Republic Cup two-match series.