Chipolopolo coach Aljosa Asanovic says the home based squad did it’s best despite succumbing to a 3-1 loss to Iraq in Friday evening’s away international friendly match at Al Madina Stadium in Baghdad.
The friendly marked Asanovic’s debut match in charge following his appointment in January on a four-year deal.
In a post-match interview, Asanovic said his local players gave 100% even though some of them were debutants at the international stage.
“After the result of 3-1, no one is happy especially me and my players. What I said after the game, I told my players that they have given 100%. They did their best, but we conceded a goal in 10 minutes which is a penalty which does not exist but anyway it is not an excuse,” he said.
“You know after that we conceded another goal through a set piece. From that we scored a goal to make it 2-1 and we went to second half. We changed the formation a bit and introduced new players, we controlled the game, but we were not dangerous,” Asanovic said.
Asanovic said the loss to Iraq was a lesson to his team.
“Some of the players it was the first time to see the ground with 40, 000 people. We are working hard; we know what we want. The energy I saw today was very good.This is a school for my boys we need more games, we need to find more opponents,” he said.
Meanwhile, Zambia has a tentative date against Angola on March 25 in Portugal and a confirmed friendly against Guinea on March 29 in Paris, France.
Asanovic is going down the same road that Micho did – losing friendly game after friendly game after friendly game, till his sacking came. We do not not really need coaches who are on ‘on the job training’.
Is that its best? Then forget about AFCON. We are missing it for the fourth time running
Best my foot
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