The Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) said on its official website that Simukonda died in the early hours of Monday after battling diabetes for sometime.
The 58-year-old trainer, who was also national soccer team assistant coach as well as coach of premier league side Nchanga Rangers, has been in and out of hospital since December last year.
He played for the national soccer team between 1983 and 1988 while his coaching career started in 1992.
He will be remembered in Zambia as being the first coach to lead a local club to the CAF Champions League group stage in 2009 as coach of premier league side Zesco United.
MOSCOWKIEV, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Russia on Thursday vowed to retaliate against new sanctions from the West, while the United States mounted up pressure on Russia by conducting military exercises with East European troops.
Russia will retaliate against new sanctions from the United States and Canada, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters.
"We did not run after quantity and did not make a show, unlike the Americans and Canadians," Lukashevich was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.
The United States banned a bunch of Russian politicians and business leaders from entry in mid-March in the first wave of sanctions against Moscow's absorption of Crimea, followed by the European Union and Japan.