Zambia coach Aggrey Chiyangi is anticipating a 2019 AFCON Group K qualifier reunion in the quarterfinals at the 2019 COSAFA Cup South Africa will host from May 25 to June 8 in Durban.
Zambia enjoy a preliminary round group stage bye at the COSAFA Cup and await winners from Group B that contains Malawi, Seychelles , Namibia and Mozambique.
Mozambique and Namibia were Zambia’s recent adversaries in their unsuccessful 2019 AFCON Group K qualifiers.
Zambia lost 1-0 home and a way to Mozambique in Group K but draw 1-1 with Namibia in Windhoek but won 4-1 at home in Lusaka.
“It is a very good group because we are only playing in the quarterfinals and I believe amongst the teams that are in that group, I am looking at playing against Mozambique or Namibia,” Chiyangi said.
“Unless otherwise but that is what we anticipate.”
Meanwhile, Zambia kicked off its pre-2019 COSAFA Cup training camp on May 6 with a weekly three-day get-together in Lusaka at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka.
Chiyangi’s team for now comprises of a provisional 24-member home-based team.
However, call-ups from Nkana and Buildcon have been excused from the first week of training due to the two sides league engagement on Wednesday in Kitwe.
Why waste time with useless competitions that you won’t even win? Zambia should be chasing the Africa cup and world cup. It’s called progress. If after 50 years you still want to run after hares when your contemporaries are chasing elephants you are backward