Zambia coach Bruce Mwape believes the Copper Queens are ‘almost at the same level’ with Paris 2024 Olympics opponents.
The African giants are in the same group with USA, Australia and Germany.
“For us to be in that group it means we are almost at the same level,” Mwape said
There has been concerns with gulf between Africa’s no.4 ranked team and some of the tournament’s favourites side huge.
“Even the players have the experience and don’t even concentrate on what people are saying. All we want is to focus on the games.“
In 2020 at the Tokyo Olympics, the Copper Queens won plaudits for their breaking taking counter attacking football.
Although Zambia scored 8 goals in three group matches, they were naive and porous at back as they conceded 15 ( 4-4 v China, 10-3 defeat v Netherlands and 1-0 defeat v Brazil).
Star striker scored back to back hatricks against Netherlands and China
“As far as I am concerned, going back to the Olympics.
“We need to improve on our performance because last time we can say it was the first time but this will be the second time the players have the experience to withstand pressure.
The tournament will start on July 24 in France
I don’t agree with the Coach. We are the Underdogs in our Group. Lets just work on the defense, tactics and the psychology of the game.
We lack in Intelligence, psychology, tactics when it comes to the game. The Big teams have a video experts, psychology experts and so much on the team. We had that lady from the USA working with the team but I think she was not welcomed whole heartedly in the team.
Wish the team well though.