He held his own in a star-studded Zambia team and featured at the 1988 Summer Olympics where Zambia reached the quarter-finals and when Zambia qualified to CAN 1990, he was Zambia’s star performer in a team without Kalusha Bwalya, Charles Musonda and Ashols Melu. He scored the only goal of the match, heading in a corner as Zambia over powered Cameroon in their opening game of the tournament. He led the team to the semi-finals where they lost to Nigeria but he scored his second goal of the tournament in the match for third place when Zambia defeated Senegal 1–0. For his efforts, he was named in the team of the tournament alongside Algeria’s Djamel Menad in attack.