The Zambia national team will this week travel to Angola to play in a four nations tournament as part of the preparation for the Russia 2018 preliminary qualifier match against Sudan.
Other teams to participate in the invitation tournament are the Democratic Republic of Congo,Namibia and Angola the hosts.
Jointly sponsored by Angola Football Federation (FAB) and the firm Real Sport, the tournament is part of the programme of celebrations of the 40th anniversary of Angola national independence, on November 11.
The Chipolopolo who are currently in camp will be looking to take advantage of the invitation tournament to prepare for the Word Cup match to be played next week, the CHAN games and the CAF U23 Championship to be played in Senegal at the end of the month as most of the local players are part of the Olympic squad.
The tournament will run from November 6-7 in Luanda.
take chan team to paticipate
That is a wonderful opportunity. Invite as many international players as possible.
Indeed good opportunity on the right time.
Why get professionals? such games are best for locals, so th
Why get professionals? such games are best for locals, so that they get the exposure and the experienced needed
this is not w/cup coz players who wil patcpate this touney they not travel to sudan
correction: i mean this is not w/cup préperation games.
Take chan team coz we dont want injaries & fatique
Abram sounds like a typical John wanna be….very argumentative with no real substance just to get appeasement…unbelievable…4 psychotic comments all seeking attention. You need to get a life brotherman
well put, commenting on almost everything without real analysis.Mocking Coach Lwandamina,Support is better than wishing someones downfall.
its Is the good preparatory Tournament for Game Like sudan’s game coz the team invited are all in the same caliber as Sudan, lets take advantage of this, we always complain of not having proper preparation each time we playing a very important game, no excuse this time.
Good preparatory tournament for the local guys. Nice one.
Good one 4 but not so sure about the timing.The tournament ends on the 7th and we play Sudan on the 11th.,,,uhmm!
This is a tourney to give tryout to Kapumbu as a substitute to Chepeshi. Lwandamina had a good chance to look at this boy in that 4-0 drubbing by Zanaco! Don’t tell me nobody has questioned him on the reasons for sidelining such a mature and dependable left back. Unless the Godhead at Faz has given a no sign to the coach but WHY?!
Very good opportunity for the coach to test new combinations and see which local players are worth a call up to the final 23. A tournament of multiple games does raise the risk of injury though but like they say….no pain no gain.
A big thank you to the Angolan FA for the consideration and invite.
No pain no gain. Lol, nice one @Steve. I believe in that principal and I live by it. Thats how it is unfortunately.
Good preparation for the team not only local players, you don’t try locals and end up using internationals in the actual game or it risks being a meaningless trail
If I were the powers that be, I would take 2 teams ku Angola, use the WC team that will play Sudan in the tournament, while I use the U23 to play friendlies with clubs and any other team willing to play them in Angola.
Or alternatively, since you are allowed about 28-30 players, I would pick 14-15 from the main team and the other from U 23, then use them alternatively.
All in all its a chance to take with both hands and use the tournament to fine tune a crack team for Sudan. Sudan is a strong team but very beatable at home, if only you go early and acclimatise. Unfortunately we always arrive in Sudan, Ghana, Nigeria and in Cameroun hours before the game, in England we even went late for an international friendly. FAZ, FAZ, FAZ.
So apa they haven’t started preparing travel arrangements for Sudan because kuchili kutali. very sad.
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Sundowns is a useless club, only good at destroyin players. Hichani wants to leave. This is a lesson to other players
If I may ask, where is mukuka mulenga…?
All the best guys.
Gud move practice makes the team perfect. Angola, Namibia and DRC are good teams to test our boys, my only worry is that when it comes for the starting line up that is were the coach always gets it wrong
@ sir blessings not only is Sundowns useless but also our players don’t put measures into consideration, All they want is Money
gud preperation 4 cha squad & olimpic team not de team that wil face sudan.
u cant play a tounament to prepare 4 a crucial game let us avoid injaries we want to qualify to de world cup.
To my side gud selection of players & training is enough to beat sudan
coz if we are not careful we can loose key players just bcoz of this simple tounament.
My worry is dat we hv just remain with few days to play sudan then hw can we play a tournament? wht u hv to know is that these guyz they fight hard to win this cup so any thing can happen to our players like injaries.
otherwise if we are not careful we can win this tournament & miss a world cup spot bcoz of injaries & fatique.
Im not againt but it is my opnion. i wish chipolopolo all de best to qualify to de world cup this time
even these teams like Angola, Namibi, DRC they not use their main squad they know that this is just celebration 4 independence they not allow to risk their players, they hv crucial games to play to win a world cup spot.
@ Sir Blessings Mukuka Mulenga is set to be loaned out to a club in the next transfer window. Plans r already advanced. Its unfortunate but the injury kept him off form
When does the under 23s start serious preps??