The Football Association of Zambia (Faz) has confirmed Zambia will travel to Botswana this week to face The Zebras in an international friendly on June 27.
This is after earlier fears that the friendly was in doubt following speculation that the hosts’ Botswana might cancel the game due to logistical problems they were encountering in their two build-up matches against Lesotho and Zambia ahead of their planned departure for Tunisia on June 28.
Sources at Faz said today that the Botswana Football Association has confirmed they will host Zambia this Saturday in Gaborone after the Zebras return from Maseru on Thursday after playing Lesotho there in another friendly international on Wednesday.
Zambia will travel for the friendly on Thursday by road in what is expected to be Under-23 coach Lucky Msiska’s first match in full-charge of a senior team.
Msiska is expected to name his final 18 on Wednesday on their eve of departure for Gaborone.
His team has been in camp in Lusaka since Friday, June 18.
However, the team will be without any Zanaco players who have a league engagement at home this Saturday against Forest Rangers.
Msiska was by press time also expecting defender Emmanuel Mbola who was absent from Tuesdays training and who is the only high profile player in the team to face Botswana.
Botswana are using the friend against Zambia and Lesotho to prepare for their 2012 Orange Caf Africa Cup of Nations Group K qualifying match away to Tunisia on July 1.
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