Zanaco are through to the group stage of the Caf Orange Confederations Cup despite losing 2-0 away to Enyimba of Nigeria in Aba on Sunday afternoon.
Wedson Nyirenda’s side advance 4-2on aggregate after doing the business in the first leg played on July 16 at sunset stadium in Lusaka.
Enyimba secured their home win thnaks to goals from Ekene Iwuorie and Henry uche in the 15th and 51st minutes respectively.
Meanwhile, Zanaco will be making their group stage debut in a Caf club cup competition coming on the back of Zesco United’s feat last year in the Champions League.
Zanaco will be in Group B where they will open their account against FUS of Morocco away during the dates of August 14-15.
FUS eliminated SuperSport United on away goals rule after beating them 1-0 today on the bacvk of a 2-1 loss in Pretoria a fortnight ago.
Another team joining Zanaco in Group B are Haras El Hodoud of Egypt who crushed ex-Zanaco and Zamsure coach Mike Sithole’s Gaborone United 8-1 to advance 8-2 on aggregate to the group phase of the Confederations Cup.
Zanaco will face Haras on match day two when they host the Egyptians on August 28 in Lusaka.
This will be Haras’ third successive group stage outing in the Confederations Cup and are still seeking their first final appearance in the competition.
2007 and 2008 Confederations Cup champions CS Sfaxien of Tunisia completed Group B after beating Petro Atletico of Angola 3-1 in Tunis will to advance via the same aggregate scoreline.
The two teams are locked at 0-0 from the first leg in Luanda played on July 17.
Thank you boys,you did make my day.
Congrats to the lads.
well done … congratulations are definietly inorder.
Viv la Zanaco!
mbola ni mpashi Zanaco,Enyimba mafi saana
zanaco is going nowhere they were lucky to beat enyimba 4-0 because enyimba first tem players dint travel.wait until they are humilited in the groups you will be the first one to denounce them.
It is high time these teams should learn to win or force a draw in away games.
Viva Zanaco!!! Your achievement is a great feat. Thank you, you have given me some bragging rights. I believe that in Nyirenda we are seeing a coaching genius evolving right before our eyes. He has recently been harshly criticized as being hard-headed or something, but the bold decisions that he makes are nothing less than a mark of a genius. If you have been following his coaching career closely, this far, you cannot help it but begin to wonder that maybe Nyirenda is destined to be a WORLD CLASS coach. Viva Zanaco. Kenako!!!
@#6 &# 7: Please learn to appreciate and give praise where it is due. Zanaco’s achievement is historic in African football. Enyimba are a power-house in African club football and are famed for overturning ridiculous score lines by big margins: 3-0, 5-0, 6-1, against other teams with continental championship status. If Zanaco, God forbid, don’t achieve much in the issuing mini-league, what they have done today is enough to put them in the annals of African club football. They are the only team to have stopped Enyimba dead in their tracks of overwhelmingly overturning big score lines. In fact Enyimba will never again be able to brag about overturning anything without feeling a sense of guilt. From today, if you talk about the heroics of Enyimba in African football, you must talk Zanaco.
chills walasa,ye yes yes viva xapit
Congratulations ba Zanaco, but now we ook to the future and it doesnt look bright. You are in a group of four with 3 teams from Arab nations. You have your work cut out. History doesnt favour us with these chaps. twalikosa to mambala.
Chills you are somehow right. But you should appreciate that # 6 AND #7 point of view that they want a team that brings silverware. You want a team that goes somewhere and they recieve some praise. #6 and #7 are tired of celebrating mean achievements which is common in Zambia. A national tema goes to quarter final and president charter them a plane and the whole state house kneels before their coach, while the African finalists go by normal plane. Conceeding goals in away games shows that you aren’t mentally prepared. they scored 4 goals (to a depleted enyimba) but zanaco aren’t big scorers in this league. Let them pull up their socks so that when they win 1-0 in zambia, the same agregate sees them through or even win an away match. All in all- congrates to Zanaco work on your weakness
Welldone ZANACO!
Thanxba ZANACO. CAF should now honour Ba Wed
Congrats Zanaco.This is good after being subjected to bad training pitch. I dont understand why africa countries treat fellow africans like that. Nigeria-i hate them, good we wired them. It also seems our clubs are doing well, i just hope these results and good perfomance will trickle down to the national team. Except Kalu must be taken off the president seat as he has made Football house his business aboard. This f.u.c.k.e.r still leaves ku RSA? Mwe ma zambians, i dont understand you at all.
You did fine ZANACO but I wish you could have scored even a face saver. Like this, you make us scary! Please try to do better on away games now.
Well done Sensational, if you keep the same spirit we know we can allow teams to score but if we can score more than the other team over two legs thats job done.
Looking forward to the campaign though I fear that it affect progress in the league, we need to put some good results together. #15 am with we need to rewrite the Faz constitution to allow the fans to vote oust any under achieving Prez. We don’t need a professional President running Faz by remote control.
good but scarly that a team zanaco beat 2 weeks ago managed to pull a come back. not encouraging but thanx the oppositions only realised too late that they were still in a qualifier phase. for zanaco, FUS of morocco are there for the taking…they just survived relegation to a lower league..but u all know as zambians the bitter pills we have swallowed over the years from these arab nations kicking us left, right and centre. in short, there is no room for errors with the next lot.:-?:-? lets hope zanaco are not wearing the whipping boyz badge .