Namibia coach Tom Saintfiet insists Zambia has an edge going into their Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup quarterfinal match on October 25 at Rufaro Stadium in Harare.
The Belgian-born coach told Namibiasport.com that Zambia’s depth of home-based players holds the key in exit month’s quarterfinal match.
Saintfiet cited Zambia CHAN bronze medal exploits at the CHAN tournament in Cote d’Ivoire and Zesco’s just ended campaign in the Caf African Champions League as cases in point.
 “Zambia have a very strong home-based squad and they reached the semifinals of the CHAN Cup in the Ivory Coast in January while Zesco United is in the final stages of the Champions League,” Saintfiet said.
“On paper, Zambia will be strong favourites to win this match, but it is only one match and we will see what we can do.
“It will be a very difficult game. We will see what we can do and obviously we will try and get a good result, but we must also be realistic and I think we stand a 90 per cent chance of losing our first match this year.”
Meanwhile, Zambia entered day-2 of training today with a full-house in Lusaka where they are camped with some late call-ups added to the team.
Striker Felix Sunzu has also been drafted into the team so too is Kebby Hachipuka.
Hachipuka has been called up to replace Power Dynamos utility player Francis Kasonde who is in Oman where he has secured a deal with a local club in the Gulf state.
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The Choma Eagles midfielder returns to the fold for the first time since the CHAN tournament and has been away club-hunting in Egypt since June.
Ba Namibia…..playing with zambia is like swimming with sharks….
Renard is a good up coming coach who needs resources to have a good team.FAZ must provide him the means to scout young talent and expose this to quality matches like the London bashing against the Black stars.
Playing Minnows like Namibia will only further relegate us to their standards!
Viva KK11!!
spot on number 2(makweti).gud observance.
Namibia is playing a mind game. Zambia is finished. They can pull a suprise once they can concentrate. # 1 Who are the sharks?
come on zambia, namibia has been our novice in african football, how come we arre ompeting with our students
Bwezani i dont argee with you ,zambia can just disppiont us