Zambia are at full house ahead of Saturday’s 2017 Africa Cup Group E qualifier and on Wednesday afternoon beat FAZ Division One North club Ndola United in a training game at Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola.
Captain Rainford Kalaba of DR Congo giants TP Mazembe and midfielder Chisamba Lungu from FC Ural in Russia both met their new coach George Lwandamina on Wednesday while striker Ronald Kampamba from Egyptian side Wadi Degla trained with the team on Tuesday afternoon.
“I think with the new coach who has joined us we will give him the support. he is not a new face to this team, he has been here before and we just have to welcome him with a good result on Saturday,” Kalaba said.
Also in is defender Stopilla Sunzu from Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua was also part of Wednesday training before suffering a serious injury during morning practice.
Meanwhile, Zambia fought back to beat a plucky United 3-2 in their first training game under Lwandamina.
Bornwell Mwape put Zambia ahead while Greenwell Whittaker and Simon Mwewa handed United a 2-1 lead.
Nchimunya Mweene scored an own goal to see the two sides go 2-2 at the break.
Given Singuluma scored Zambia’s winner when he headed in a cross from Kalaba.
To me, this is the most important game in these qualifiers coz ; 1. It’s a home game and gives us the opportunity to win by a large goal margin
2. Beating your first opponent by a large margin sends shivers into your subsequent opponents and immediately makes you lead the group
3. It makes it difficult for your competitors to catch because every team keeps improving as the competition progresses
4. Eliminates the possibility of relying on mathematical chances for your qualification
SO, GO ZAMBIA GO!!!
Who allowed all those goals, I hope not Mweene, otherwise ninshi nabapwilika fye b Kennedy.
Despite the untimely gaffe by FAZ of replacing a Coach at an eleventh hour I wish the lads the best of luck. I hope that during these qualifiers they will be consistent in their performance. In the past inconsistency has been their undoing – playing well and raising hope in one game and leaving you heart broken in the next.
I hope, too, that George Lwandamina can improve the disquieting situation and prove that we have local Coaches capable of redeeming the situation.
Guinea is a tough opponent! As we sweat over tougher opponents, most of Europe’s top teams have a walk in the park as they ‘train’ to qualify against teams like Gibralta( with a population of Chawama-30000!), San Marino, Liechtenstein and such weaklings! No wonder they’re annoyed with Blatter for not championing their biasness!Africa and Asia should not make a mistake to vote for a FIFA president with a Eurocentric view otherwise it’ll trek us backwards!
Okey inaliko bad result.
MWE BANTU BA NDOLA UNITED EBAKUMITNYA IFYO. FILI UKO TULEYA MAYO. BA NDOLA UNITED ARE EASIER TO BEAT THAN GUINEA BISSAU, EBALEMICHITA IFYO, WHAT MORE!!?? LETS WAIT FOR SATURDAY..
LETS USE NDOLA UNITED FOR THIS MATCH OTHERWISE ISHI NIMBWA FYE AMA SHOKO AGAIN MULI IFWE
Congrats to my friend Simon Mwewa for Scoring. I pray that God enlightens your football career.