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Men’s football today became the second sports discipline that will not fly the Zambian flag at the Maputo All-Africa Games this September.

Lucky Msiska’s team this afternoon joined Basketball in failing to qualify for the All-Africa Games tournament to be held in Maputo from September 3-18.

The Basketball team two weeks failed to qualify for the All-Africa Games after finishing fourth on two points from their four round robin matches at the Zone 6 qualifying tournament held in Pretoria, South Africa.

Meanwhile in the football qualifiers on Sunday, Zambia drew 1-1 with Zimbabwe in the preliminary round, return leg match at Rufaro Stadium in Harare to bow out 4-3 on aggregate.

Zimbabwe scored first through hot-shot attacker Denver Mukamba in the 26th minute to give his side a 1-0 lead into the break.

Zambia equalized in the 68th minute through Lewis Macha.
This will be the first time Zambia will have failed to qualify to the All-Africa Games football tournament after four successive appearances since 1995.

The team won silver in 1999 with late coach Ben Bamfuchile, finishing fourth in 2003 and 2007 under Peter Kaumba but failed to make it out of the group stages in 1995 in Zimbabwe.

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8 COMMENTS

DONCHI KUBEBA January 23, 2011 At 10:53 pm

i want to associate every failure with this gvt…donchi kubeba
NAPAPA SANA!!!!!! January 24, 2011 At 1:28 am

All because of RB!!!!!!!!!!!
Chama Chakomboka January 24, 2011 At 1:35 am

Donchi kubeba don’t be foolish. The failure is not becoz of the government but becoz of your stupid boss galu. You guys should give him time to perform instead of busy give a head job. Next will be national team won’t qualify to the African cup. Failure is associate with kalu!
Fwebena Mbulo January 24, 2011 At 4:23 am

Chi Simataa ubuloshi,what are those 3 beads, red-black-red he has been wearing everytime there is a match? Now you see he has achieved what he wanted. Simata and Mukoka of Post are worst of space in Lusaka.
Soccer Fan No2 January 24, 2011 At 7:03 am

Ine ndabeba ba coach ukulandalanda kwalichila. Olympics ku London tizafikako?
sum guy January 24, 2011 At 9:08 am

Thats wat u get for experimenting with rookie coaches! Worse still with the confusion at Football House, all this was expected
Which way January 24, 2011 At 10:12 am

This is a result of the strife caused by the so called interim committee. The grass is suffering.
Stone Cold January 24, 2011 At 1:17 pm

Whats Msiska excuse now? Fwayo’s absense? ma rubbish!!!!!!!!!
The under 23 is almost equal to the senior national. So please lets engage serious and competent people to manage these guys.