Zambia coach Wedson Nyirenda has declared the team’s five-day pre-2018CHAN training in Mongu a massive success.
Chipolopolo held a closed-door training camp in Mongu from December 27 to January 2 in their third week of preparations for the CHAN Tournament Morocco will host from January 12 to February 4.
A provisional 29-member team was part of the camp as Nyirenda prepares to name his final 23 by Friday before departing for Morocco over the weekend.
The team included Zanaco midfielder Augustine Mulenga and his club mate and goalkeeper Toaster Nsabata who have been strongly linked with foreign moves before the tournament that would render them ineligible for the finals.
CHAN is a second tier AFCON tournament exclusively for domestic-based players.
“Looking at the short time we have, we could not take risk training locally in Lusaka we had to take them to a different place and result-oriented place,” Nyirenda said.
“We had a good time with five days of training and everyone is looking good.
“I can say we are now 85- 90 percent ready.”
Meanwhile, Zambia were back in training on Wednesday afternoon at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka just 24 hours after returning from Western Province.
Did the boys stop over at treason road.
….and kiss the ground?
Now I know why west africans look fit on the pitch. This is due to training on the sand.
This is comedy.hope no one will say ‘ll go back to the drawing board .’
Mongu has no better training facilities than Lusaka. Five days of intensive training surely won’t change anything in terms of fitness. Remember the season just came to an end recently