Zambia shall rise - Kamanga Kamanga

WE are more than sure that we shall rise again with the efforts we are putting in rebuilding our football, FAZ president Andrew Kamanga has said.

Kamanga said it was encouraging to see the Chipolopolo boys step up to deliver two wins from the three friendly matches played against Malawi, Kenya and South Africa.

The FAZ chief has no doubt that with the trajectory the Chipolopolo is on, Zambia will be able to rebound as a strong force on the African continent and beyond.

Kamanga said FAZ will continue to support all the national teams with as many friendly matches as possible to prepare adequately for international assignments such as the AFCON qualifiers, the CHAN and the Olympic

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“Our executive has pledged to give all national teams high level preparations for important assignments. We liaise with the technical benches to provide programnes that we endeavour to fulfil to give teams quality preparations.

“We are happy that we were able to give the Chipolopolo good preparations for the Botswana matches and also the CHAN,” Kamanga said.

Kamanga said the association faced a lot of challenges organising players to feature for the three friendly games with five Zambian players from Europe and three players from South Africa and Congo DR.

“It was not easy getting all these players into the country and later flying them for the assignments lined up for them but we are happy to have pulled it off.

“As we continue building for the November showdown with Botswana and the CHAN in January, we shall continue to support all our teams with as many friendly matches as possible.”

He said the Zambia National Women’s team which qualified to the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games will face Chile in one of the two high profile games to be played next month in Santiago.