Herve Renard has disclosed that there will be no rest day for Zambia over the festive season.
Zambia set up camp in Johannesburg on December 26 for the teams’ final phase of training camp ahead of their Africa cup title defence in Janaury.
Renard told the Faz official website that the team will even train on New Years Day.
“Training is intense and difficult for the players this week because we are having two sessions each day including weekends,” Renard said.
“This we will do both on Saturday and Sunday and the new year eve.
“But the guys are strong, they know what we want to do and achieve and the level we want to reach for us to compete.”
23 players are in camp minus striker’s Jacob Mulenga of FC Utrecht in Holland and Emmanuel Mayuka from Southampton who are yet to arrive in camp.
Stopilla Sunzu has been excused to take care of his prospective move to English Premiership side Reading.
They got to work them to the bone…
The is nothing strange about training on New Years day go to the EPL and the play premiership games through the festive period to the new year!!
Good news for Zambia with 50 000 tickets already in Zambian hands. W e should win this one.GOD BLESS ZAMBIA.
Good one. Our players are professionals & pro minded. This is nothing new. 10% of our team play in China where the Chinese have their own New year. No big deal. Fight on boys. We are buying the tickets to fill the stands & cheer you on
Tiye guys Tiye nayo, iyee chipolopolo x2
That is the way to go Renard.keep it up!Boys,u ar indeed the champs.God bless u.
I love this coach, i must say. he is a bit of a mourinho show off type, but everyone is allowed to have some flair. i believe these guys are a better team and were better at afcon due to their conditioning and as much as he may not be a remrkable tactician , he is a great conditioning and fitness coach. NKALANI BO LIMBA MANYAMATA!
go herve! and agreeing with earlier comments, the reason the EPL is the best is because there’s no such thing as winter break. rain or shine they still train and play league games in on holidays. Not like bungesliga and other weaker leagues. GIJIMA BAFANA!
Infact we are even late to go into camp. Ethiopians are now completeing their 4th week of training in camp. To my surprise they said that they are only training to beat Zambia at the Afcon. You can see that their mission is to bring Zambia down and for them their job is done at the whole tournament………So we need to be adquately prepared for the first game and we must ensure we beat Ethiopia, but for me I see the real ostacle coming at the quater final stage where we are likely to meet Ivory coast, Algeria or Tunisia. Getting past that stage will be as good as going to the finals…Go Zambia go!!!!!!!!!
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