Dynamos, Mwila made a sensational return as coach amid reports of some players boycotting training upon hearing the news. Chola was relegated to the role of assistant coach with Scotsman Jim Bone as Technical Advisor. Rechristened ‘Power 90,’ Dynamos won 3 trophies in 1990, just missing out on the league to Nkana. The following year, Dynamos bagged the big one when they overcame Nigeria's Benue Cement Company Lions 5-4 on aggregate to scoop the Africa Cup Winners Cup, the only Zambian team to have achieved that feat to date. Dynamos had gone down 2-3 in the first leg in Nigeria but were able to win 3-1 at home despite being a goal down at half-time. Dynamos also added the league title for a historic double. That same year, Chola attended a coaching course in Germany where he was awarded with an advanced diploma in coaching. The following season, he re-assumed coaching responsibilities after the departures of Bone and Mwila and Dynamos embarked on the defence of their Cup Winners Cup trophy. After negotiating their way past Mochudi Centre Chiefs of Botswana in the second round, Dynamos players pressed for higher allowances and boycotted a trip to Burundi which led to Management suspending the entire team for the rest of the season save for goalkeeper Martin Mwamba, defender Webby Chilufya and midfielder Aggrey Chiyangi. Chola therefore had to make do with a team full of youngsters from the reserve team, players like Winter Mumba, Kenan Simambe, Douglas Mwamba, Changa Chaiwa and Kellies Mwaba. To everyone's surprise, Dynamos finished a credible 5th and only lost 8 league games. Chola was rewarded with the Coach of the Year award for the 1992 season. Following Zambia's surprise defeat to Madagascar in a World Cup Qualifier in Antananarivo in December 1992, coach Samuel Ndhlovu was sacked and Godfrey Chitalu was appointed national team coach with Chola as his assistant. The two put together an exciting team which was tipped to make it all the way to the 1994 World Cup, but on their way to Senegal the team met its fate in the horrific air disaster off the coast of Gabon. Death On 27 April 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, Chola, Chitalu and eighteen players died in the accident. Chola was survived by a wife Monica and five children. Alex Chola road in Lusaka is named after him in his honour. Honours Club Honours Zambian Premier League: 1984 Independence Cup: 1976, 1980 and 1982 Champion of Champions Cup: 1980, 1981, 1984 Individual Honours Zambian Footballer of the Year: 1976 Zambian Coach of the Year: 1992 References Category:1956 births Category:1993 deaths Category:People from Lubumbashi Category:Zambian footballers Category:Zambia international footballers Category:Zambian football managers Category:Olympic footballers of Zambia Category:Footballers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Category:1978 African Cup of Nations players Category:1982 African Cup of Nations players Category:Power Dynamos F.C. players Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Gabon Category:FIFA Century Club Category:Association football forwards