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Some things are meant to be.
After Sunday night turned into Monday morning, and Zambia was crowned the champion of African soccer, the team’s coach, Hervé Renard, had only one explanation: “There was a special spirit with us,” he said. “It was written in the sky.” Renard, a Frenchman, had used this spirit from the very start. He has twice worked for the Zambian federation, and was hired for the job by Kalusha Bwalya, the only surviving star of the country’s most famous, and most blighted, team.
Now the president of Zambian soccer, Bwalya was not on the military plane that crashed into the sea off the coast of Libreville, Gabon, killing all aboard in 1993. He was not there because, as a player with P.S.V. Eindhoven, he...
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