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MICHO CLOSE TO PICKING FINAL AFCON AND CHAN SQUADS


Zambia National Soccer Team coach Milutin Sredojevic says he is closer to having his final teams for the back-to-back Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Botswana and also the African Nations Championship (CHAN).

Micho, who is currently drilling 42 local players says his will trim the current number of players to 30 after this week’s assessment at Lusaka’s National Heroes Stadium.
“We have overall 52 players, 10 of them are absent due to competitive duties and 42 are here, 36 in-field players and six goalkeepers. From this number of 52 we shall go down 24 field players and four goalkeepers that will start next Monday 9th March camp. That will culminate in the match against Malawi that we are playing on Wednesday,” he said.

Meanwhile the Football Association of Zambia has announced that it has secured four friendly matches for the Chipolopolo ahead of their AFCON qualifiers and CHAN tournament to be held in Cameroon.

Micho reveals the thirty remaining players will be tested in a friendly match against Malawi next Wednesday in Lusaka before heading to Uganda for a three-nation tournament that will see Zambia play Mali and the Cranes.

The team will face Ethiopia in another international friendly match in Addis Ababa on March 21.

“After that on Sunday 15th March, we are leaving to Uganda for the three-nation tournament. We will play Uganda on 17th, Mali on 19th and then on the way back we will play Ethiopia.”

Upon returning from the East Africa tour, Micho will unveil his Botswana AFCON squad and Chan teams.
He said that he had seen great talent in Zambia that only needed to be transformed into competitors.

“I have been a coach for the last 26 years and last few years I have worked in nine countries, been to 50 out of 54. I feel extremely proud to be coaching these boys because they are very coachable, they are fast learners, they are like sponges absorbing everything quickly,” he said.

“They are players that are having a good platform and I would like to give credit to Zambian coaches who have nurtured them.”

“We need to ask ourselves, we know that we are having talented players but the only question is, do we know how to make results and make people happy because this is the only identity you have in football. How do you win or not? We want to do everything to turn that talent into something that will give us results and make our supporters happy.”

Zambia hosts Botswana on March 26 in Lusaka before heading to Gaborone for the return leg in back-to-back Group H Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

The team will be at the Cameroon 2020 CHAN that kicks off on April 4 where they will play Guinea, Tanzania and Namibia.

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