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Africa Cup Chop Looms For Absent Duo

The door is looking like it is shut for Danny Hangunyu and Signs Chibambo as Herve Renard prepares to name is final 23 for the Africa cup.

Hangunyu of Clube Desportivo 1º de Agosto in Angola and Chibambo from Nigerian club Heartlands have both failed to turn up for training camp in South Africa over the last five days.

Faz communications manager Erick Mwanza said the duo had not reported to camp by today and that the issue was now out of Faz’s hands.

Mwanza said Faz was especially a little concerned that Hangunyu had failed to honor a single call-up since October.

“His (Hangunyu’s) phone is now off,” Mwanza said. “We have called him for Cecafa, Cosafa and match against North Korea and he has failed to honor any of those call-ups

. “If anything it now falls on Danny Hangunyu.”

Meanwhile, Renard will over the coming hours today, Wednesday name his 23-member team.

And Zambia has two more friendly matches coming up one against Benin on January third either in Johannesburg or Bloemfontein.

The other will be played on January 9 in Johannesburg against South Korea before the team leaves for Angola on the 11th.

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10 COMMENTS

  1. Let them stay where ever they are that way no way can their respective clubs bench them. Under achieving teams in the Africa cup have their national players see little play time in Europe. So it’s wise for them to fake emotional stress.

  2. There must be something wrong with these two especially Hangunyu.Playing for the national team is the dream of every player,maybe he lacks self confidence or perhaps playing in Angola was his major dream.GO ZAMBIA GO…

  3. So signs wins foreign player award in nigeria but gets a chop from the angola bound squad . whats the logic behind all this poor administrative arrangements .Someone is protecting certain under performing players to make the trip to angola bcoz i don’t believe with the zambian high commission in nigeria , a player can just disappear or fail to show up .there must be a good explaination to all that … So like the old days when great kalu’s brother made the line up , we are still trading in dangerous waters . Its not too late for players to be tested and i don’t see the rush to drop someone with such a record especially in a place like nigeria and yet there is still 2 weeks b4 kick off and friendly game in balance . I guess the coaching staff have chosen to dig their own graves .

  4. So signs wins foreign player award in nigeria but gets a chop from the angola bound squad . whats the logic behind all this poor administrative arrangements .Someone is protecting certain under performing players to make the trip to angola bcoz i don’t believe with the zambian high commission in nigeria , a player can just disappear or fail to show up .there must be a good explaination to all that … So like the old days when great kalu’s brother made the line up , we are still trading in dangerous waters . Its not too late for players to be tested and i don’t see the rush to drop someone with such a record especially in a place like nigeria and yet there is still 2 weeks b4 kick off and friendly game in balance . I guess the coaching staff have chosen to dig their own graves .

  5. So signs wins foreign player award in nigeria but gets a chop from the angola bound squad . whats the logic behind all this poor administrative arrangements .Someone is protecting certain under performing players to make the trip to angola bcoz i don’t believe with the zambian high commission in nigeria , a player can just disappear or fail to show up .there must be a good explaination to all that … So like the old days when great kalu’s brother made the line up , we are still trading in dangerous waters . Its not too late for players to be tested and i don’t see the rush to drop someone with such a record especially in a place like nigeria and yet there is still 2 weeks b4 kick off and friendly game in balance . I guess the coaching staff have chosen to dig their own graves .

  6. So signs wins foreign player award in nigeria but gets a chop from the angola bound squad . whats the logic behind all this poor administrative arrangements .Someone is protecting certain under performing players to make the trip to angola bcoz i don’t believe with the zambian high commission in nigeria , a player can just disappear or fail to show up .there must be a good explaination to all that … So like the old days when great kalu’s brother made the line up , we are still trading in dangerous waters . Its not too late for players to be tested and i don’t see the rush to drop someone with such a record especially in a place like nigeria and yet there is still 2 weeks b4 kick off and friendly game in balance . I guess the coaching staff have chosen to dig their own graves .

  7. So signs wins foreign player award in nigeria but gets a chop from the angola bound squad . whats the logic behind all this poor administrative arrangements .Someone is protecting certain under performing players to make the trip to angola bcoz i don’t believe with the zambian high commission in nigeria , a player can just disappear or fail to show up .there must be a good explaination to all that … So like the old days when great kalu’s brother made the line up , we are still trading in dangerous waters . Its not too late for players to be tested and i don’t see the rush to drop someone with such a record especially in a place like nigeria and yet there is still 2 weeks b4 kick off and friendly game in balance . I guess the coaching staff have chosen to dig their own graves .

  8. So signs wins foreign player award in nigeria but gets a chop from the angola bound squad . whats the logic behind all this poor administrative arrangements .Someone is protecting certain under performing players to make the trip to angola bcoz i don’t believe with the zambian high commission in nigeria , a player can just disappear or fail to show up .there must be a good explaination to all that … So like the old days when great kalu’s brother made the line up , we are still trading in dangerous waters . Its not too late for players to be tested and i don’t see the rush to drop someone with such a record especially in a place like nigeria and yet there is still 2 weeks b4 kick off and friendly game in balance . I guess the coaching staff have chosen to dig their own graves .

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