Copper Queens Technical bench bubbling with confidence ahead of Zim Clash

By Lucky Mwewa Chama | August 22, 2019

The Zambia Women’s National Team assistant coach says that the technical bench has identified the mistakes made during the just ended COSAFA Women’s tournament in South Africa where they finished second to the hosts.

Charity Nthala told the ZamFoot Crew that the bench will work on the lapses the team made during the tournament as they prepare to face Zimbabwe in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifiers with the first leg set to be played in Lusaka on 28th August, 2019.

“To our side as coaches we know where we messed up during finals and we know what to shape up the team. We will do our level best to qualify to the next round,” Nthala said.

Nthala further said that all the players have reported for camp and that foreign-based in based players are expected to join the rest of the squad. The technical bench has maintained much of the players from the COSAFA Senior Women’s Championships squad that was in South Africa.

“All the players have reported, yesterday we had a full squad we trained and the sharp of the girls is okay. This week we are just doing one or two things. All the players were part of the COSAFA tournament,” Nthala said.

The technical bench has summoned two European based stars Rachel Kundananji and Misozi Zulu who are plying their trade in Kazakhstan. Nthala said that the technical bench is hopeful the two will bring a different dimension to the Copper Queens set up.

“Tomorrow (Friday) we are expecting our professionals who are coming Misozi and Kundananji to come and spice  toup the team,” Nthala revealed.

The locally assembled Copper Queens side reached the finals of the COSAFA Women’s Championships in South Africa and Nthala k the nation’s expectations are high following the good run at the regional showpiece.

“Yes the expectations are very high and we are assuring the nation that for this round we are through. We are very confident that we’ll do our best and we’ll qualify to the next round,” a confident Nthala told ZamFoot.

The Copper Queens are in camp ahead of their first leg 2020 Tokyo Olympics qualifying encounter against Zimbabwe next Wednesday.

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