Msiska Resigned To No-Show From Pros

Lucky Msiska has said he is almost resigned to his under-23 team playing without any foreign-based players against Zimbabwe in Harare next week.

Zambia and Zimbabwe Under-23 teams will meeting on January 22 at Rufaro Stadium in their Maputo 2011 All-Africa Games preliminary round return leg match with the latter leading 3-2.

Msiska said the possibility of striker Fwayo Tembo of FC Basel in Switzerland featuring in the return leg was bleak.

“The club have said they will not release him because it is not a Fifa match date and they only planned to release him for just one game,” Msiska said.

Fwayo played in the first leg on January 8 held at Nkoloma stadium in Lusaka.

“It looks like I will only feature the players I have at home, there is nothing much I can do,” Msiska said.

And Msiska and his team are in Chingola en route to DR Congo on Saturday where they will face TP Mazembe in a friendly on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Zambia women’s national team on Saturday hosts South Africa in an Olympic Games first round, first leg qualifier at Nkoloma Stadium.

South Africa who hold a six-to-one win edge over Zambia in seven meetings since 1993 will be looking to avenge their first ever defeat at the hands of Zambia that they suffered exactly a year ago in the Fifa Under-20 Cup qualifier.

Zambia won 2-0 in the return leg in Lusaka to pick-up their first ever win over South Africa in a women’s football competition but bowed out 6-2 on aggregate.