Zambia national team boss Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic is happy with the ‘lessons learned from Saturday’s 3-1 international friendly loss at the hands of African giants Senegal.
Micho believes both teams benefited from the game. The Serbian Wolf was left content with his teams’ second-half performance which saw them threaten Senegal on several occasions and score a goal.
Micho is hopeful the team can represent the country well during World Cup qualifiers.
“I would love to give credit to Senegalese people for the confidence shown to coach Cisse 6 years coaching the team and believing in the process, we are also in process in 2017 our U-20 were champions of Africa, and when you look at many of these players and those that didn’t come cause of some reasons of not being here is our backbone of the team that we put 5 years after winning the AFCON U-20 2017 they could as a unit as a group represent Zambia in the best way and help Zambia to qualify to the world cup. We are trying our best to put Zambia on the Map as former Africa cup winners,” he said.
“We need to show the character you need to look the players into the eye and to inject to come out and try to represent the country in the best possible way, and I believe in the second half that we have satisfied and the resistance from a very strong Senegal team the performance that we had.”
“20years coaching in Africa our players are hypersensitive and when you have that in mind it’s not easy to be 3 times slapped 1,2,3 and when you have this you need to work up the pride of carrying the national team jersey to the players and to tell them yes in football anything can happen, Top class team, you can lose but it the same moment you need to play in order even if you lose, lose it honorably and I believe that both teams have benefited from this match and once more I thank the team of Senegal for teaching us the reason for me this was a very important selective match where I have seen which players will be in the team for the world cup qualifiers in September and which players are not capable cause the jersey is heavy, we have learned lessons from a very good team,” he added.
The Copper Bullets were handed a 3-1 defeat by Senegal thanks to goals from Sadio Mane, Krepin Diatta 30, and Ismailly Sarr while Kabwe Warriors defender Dominic Chanda scored Chipolopolo’s consolation goal.
The Serbian ‘Wolf’ is however carrying a team that is thin and stretched to the barest minimum with up to 17 possible inclusions to the squad not available for selection due to various reasons.
Zambia will now look forward to a game against Benin to be played on Tuesday 8th June before playing Sudan on Friday 11th June.
What you are saying its on your contract . You promised people of zambia good results and good team selection. How can you give arm band to a reject . Useless coach. The Senegalese coach is there because of consistance. He has been doing his job very well. Your job is online. Kamanga will fire you. Kkkkkkk. Joke of the year. A poor builder always blames his tools.
This coach its either he’s useless or being misled by the local assistant coaches. He should be put on administrative leave. He’s fake, chewing our tax payer.
Simply useless coach ever..
It’s like losing has become the norm now. We are always experimenting. Thats why we hsve cosafa for experiments. You can’t disrespect high profile opponents with this kind of team and display. He needs to go, together with whoever hired him.