Women Rugby; Zambia ranked tenth

They are taking care of me and respect me. This club gave me a chance to come coach in the PSL and I am grateful for that." he told Sowetan.

When contacted from South Africa, Nyirenda said there was nothing of such an offer from FAZ. “There is nothing,” he responded.

FAZ deputy general secretary Joseph Chimpampwe said he was shocked by the media reports from South Africa.

“I am or rather FAZ is not aware of that news. It’s a shock because we are yet to advertise the job and not given Nyirenda any offer,” he said.

Nyirenda, 52, resigned as Chipolopolo coach in May, 2018 after been at the helm of the job since September of 2016.

Last week, he was angry with the soccerbody for failing to settle his dues accumulated when he served as national team coach.

Ministry of Youth, Sport and Child Development permanent secretary Joe Kapembwa assured Nyirenda that Government would pay all the outstanding moneys.

In August, FAZ picked Serbian Veselin Jelusic to drill the team but he was rejected by Government. The soccerbody was advised to follow the right employment procedure and advertise the job.

The national team is currently under care taker coach Aggrey Chiyangi. ZAMBIA rugby women’s team failure to impress at the 2019 Africa Women’s Sevens rugby

championship in the coastal city of Monastir, Tunisia has seen the team ranked tenth in Africa.

Nicknamed “The Boys,” the

Zambia women’s rugby team competed in the Africa Women’s

Sevens rugby championship

which was used as qualifiers for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

games.

Zambia recorded one victory and lost the other four matches at the tournament to move to

tenth on the continent’s best

women rugby teams list.

“The Boys” started their campaign in Tunisia with an embarrassing 36-0 loss to South Africa before the tightly contested 15-10 defeat to

Uganda.

Zambia continued with her poor performance on the second

day of the games, losing 12-7

to neighbours Zimbabwe before the 21-14 defeat to Ghana.

The team’s only victory

came in the last game at the tournament when they beat Botswana 24-5.

The final ranking of the 2019 Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens saw 2019 Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens champions

South Africa claiming number one spot after beating Kenya 15

14 in the final played on Sunday.

Kenya who qualified for their second consecutive Olympic

Games, despite being beaten

by South Africa in the final of the Rugby Africa Women's Sevens

in Monastir claim second spot on the rankings.

Third is 2019 Rugby Africa Women’s Sevens bronze

winners Madagascar while Tunisia are fourth in Africa.

Uganda Senegal and Morocco are fifth, sixth and

seventh respectively while Zimbabwe, Ghana and Zambia complete the top ten with Botswana and Mauritius ranked 11th and 12th respectively.