FIFA UNDER-20 WORLD CUP.
04/07/2007
Group B
Zambia 1 (William Njovu 74″) -Spain 2(Mario Suraz 30″ pen, Juan Mata 40″)
Uruguay 1 (Cavani Edinson 40″) Jordan 0
1 Spain 2 1 1 0 4 3 4
2 Uruguay 2 1 1 0 3 2 4
3 Zambia 2 0 1 1 2 3 1
4 Jordan 2 0 1 1 1 2 1
Zambia needs o score atleast 3-4 goals in the last game to rekindle their dreams of progressing. But i cant blame them the competition is tough.
Power 2 thepeople, even a 1 nil score line will be okay. With 4 points, we can go through to the next round even if we finish third. The best 4 teams of the third place finshers will proceed to the quarter finals.
I watched the game, the boy’s played very well against a well organized Spanish team. If they play the way they played last night against Uruguay they can score many goals.
Maybe it is a Zambian thing: not giving in to overwhelming facts. Lets admit it; our soccer history has always been a graveyard of timid decisions and lost chances. Forget about beating the next team. Hire an expert coach for the U20 and not the senior team.
Even a 1-0 scoreline against Uruguay will put Zambia in 2nd position in the group. Uruguay might be complacent because they know they should qualify regardless of the result. Zambia needs to be confident about its ability, because it certainly is there. I still feel that despite missing so many chances, the defence needs to be more organised. At international level you cannot make schoolboy errors such as the goal conceded against Jordan and the first goal against Spain. If you have confidence in your defence, the strikers will have less pressure, and actually will score more.
People have you forgotten the nature of Zambian football. They wilt with the least amount of pressure. They never win when it really matters the most and that is exactly what will happen. They will play very exciting football against a resilient Uruguay but still lose the game at the end of the day. Let’s not expect so much from the boys ” the experience” is basically what they went there for. Finishing third in the table I think is a good achievement for them good job boys! Hope Fifa can give them a tour of Canada before they fly back to Zambia.
It will be another story. I agree wholeheartedly with BuzzEd. Lets not expect alot from the younsters. Atleast they have gained some experience. If they win against Uruguay, it will be a bonus. I do not really know what to say, but Zambian soccer is synonimous with failure and under-achievement especially at club level and senior national team. Atleast the U-20 national team have qualified to the junior world cup twice which is better. I hope they take this achievement at senior level which I doubt.
Good Luck boys against Uruguay tomorrow! Make us proud.We are tired of being “The Near Men”.
well tried but not good enough.its not expecting alot there job is to win
Its not about winning but exposure.
i think we are really talking nonsense here. The under 20 are the providers for the Senior Chipolopolo, therefore it is common sense that if our under 20 can reach the semis or even finals of a World Cup that will mean that when the same boys are no longer boys but men and selected in our main team then we can expect a very strong team. Nigeria and others have performed well in the late years, at junior and senior level in the world cup. Look bane the song of the boys have at least got experience is rubbish. If our team needed that then they should have just played in friendly games and not in a competation like the U20 World Cup. It is the same tournemts that have produced Ronadinhal. Raul, etc while we have been satsified with the likes of Sinkala, Kampamba, Nsofwa. My point is the level at which a team riches at U/17/20/23 will always determain the level of our future players. Like it or not that is the truth. Nomba is to beat Uru gwai who says they will set back
jay ewaba Zed lyonse, ala taywaishiba fwye uku tewya bola bane. Bushe imwe bafikala bonse pano ni mwe BA IAN SMITH NANGU JUDA, PETERO NA THOMAS JUST ACCEPT ATI TATWAISHI BA UKU TEWE BOLA CHAPWA. IFYO MUTA LIKANA FINSHI IMWE BAKOLWE. MWE BWA MWE, BA SHI MABOLO
Kemps exposure?? how long. Ngaba aba wina ama tonamenti mune. Ba Zambia tuli makula chabe, nga ninshi fimbi bane. You will talk until u die nothing will change. Ala bali tu fulamina chapwa, kusu mina chabe
yaba ati Zambia, no mba ni Bia Zam meaning losers whos will accept due to their small blangatas. Mwaba ifi pato, nomba fwa selela na ku mi lomo
No doubt about it. Why settle for experience when you can win against Uruguay and make the 2nd round. This is not dreaming either because the Zambian team has quality. And as for pressure, they managed to beat Cameroon 3-2 and Egypt 3-0 to qualify for the semi finals of the AYC. They were both must-win matches and teams on par with Uruguay. Spain was a different story, and losing against Jordan was unacceptable.
I really hope we beat Uruguay and get to the next round, cause that way we will have more players in Europe. By the way I have seen a team photo of the Zambian Squad on fifa.com, they look health, and a combination of both tall and short players, therefore who measured their heights and weight must have used other instruments.
After a day of browsing around their new location of Victoria and some light training at the Royal Athletic Park, star Zambian winger Clifford Mulenga took time to chat with FIFA.com about Canada 2007 so far, the future and the Copper Bullets’ make-or-break Group B match against Uruguay on Saturday.
Having arrived late to the team only after their opening 1-1 draw with Jordan – he was playing for his South African club, Pretoria University, in their play-off bid to reach the Premier League (they lost) – the 19-year-old was a spark for the side in their second match against Spain despite their 2-1 defeat. Knowing that his side need a victory to catch Uruguay on four points, Mulenga maintains his obvious enthusiasm in the face of the favoured South Americans.
“(Uruguay) are a good team, we’ve seen them play, but we will absolutely win,” he says to a rather stunned Uruguayan TV interviewer after training. But, this is more infectious positive attitude than arrogance from the gregarious youngster. When discussing the Zambia senior team’s chances of reaching the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, he says similarly “we will definitely qualify for that one. Yeah, we will. We’re getting there.”
It’s a positivity that seems to be there for the rest of the African side as well: “As soon as I got here I could see the boys were really up for the tournament, and the mood is still really high,” the left-sided player explains. “It was a bit disappointing not to have got the points that we wanted in the last match against Spain. But then again, we have to keep looking forward, so we are preparing as hard as we can for tomorrow’s game.”
we only need to win that is all and qualify as one of the best third placed teams. I hope, Zambia, Gambia and Congo all win their last matches so that Brazil go home
bafikala mwa ya kwi
mwa mena amolu
It’s half time and 1 nil in favour of Zambia in Victoria, Canada. Mulenga C cconverted penalty. Both teams palying 9 men. Nyambe sent off in the 42′. Good luck for the boy.
Zambia 2-0 up, bad boy Nyambe
Spain 3 Jordan 2
1 Spain 3 1 1 0 4 3 4
2 Zambia 3 0 1 1 4 3 4
3 Uruguay 3 1 1 0 3 4 4
4 Jordan 3 0 1 3 3 6 1
As at now
1 Spain 3 1 1 0 8 5 4
2 Zambia 3 1 1 1 4 3 4
3 Uruguay 3 1 1 1 3 4 4
4 Jordan 3 0 1 3 3 6 1
As at now
1 Spain 3 1 1 0 8 5 7
2 Zambia 3 1 1 1 4 3 4
3 Uruguay 3 1 1 1 3 4 4
4 Jordan 3 0 1 3 3 6 1
Group B team MP W D L GF GA Pts
Spain 3 2 1 0 8 5 7
Zambia 3 1 1 1 4 3 4
Uruguay 3 1 1 1 3 4 4
Jordan 3 0 1 2 3 6 1
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#26,#27 & #28. Ka table nakamoneka bwino.Congrats ba ZAMBIA.
#27 & #28. Ka table nakamoneka bwino.Congrats ba ZAMBIA.
Abena Buzz and other doubters, history sometimes fails to defend itself. Now that the boys have done the immposible, can we rally together and give postive advice on the way forward.
Zambia vs Nigeria may go either way. Nigerai will promise their boys mega bucks, while Zambia needs to kindle the chipolopolo spirit.