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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Likuena have pronounced their readiness for the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) tournament scheduled for Durban in South Africa. The team left Lesotho yesterday for the regional competition that kicks off on Saturday. The tournament ends on June 8.
\nThe Lesotho Football Association (LEFA) has given head coach Moses Maliehe and his lieutenants a mandate to strive beyond the semi-finals in this year\u2019s episode of the event.<\/p>\n

Team assistant coach Mpitsa Marai told a press conference earlier this week that they had at least three weeks of preparation for their first match of the tournament against Uganda.<\/p>\n

Marai said they have reviewed video clips of their past matches against Uganda in the African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers and were able to identify the mistakes that caused them the games. Lesotho shall start the tournament from the quarter finals level, due to their outstanding performance in last year\u2019s edition of the competition.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Lesotho. Likuena have pronounced their readiness for the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) tournament scheduled for Durban in South Africa. The team left Lesotho yesterday for the regional competition that kicks off on Saturday. The tournament ends on June 8. The Lesotho Football Association (LEFA) has given head coach Moses Maliehe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,246,125,245],"class_list":["post-18436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-lesotho","tag-football","tag-lesotho"],"yoast_head":"\nLikuena ready for COSAFA tourney - Lesotho<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Likuena have pronounced their readiness for the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) tournament sch ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Likuena ready for COSAFA tourney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Likuena have pronounced their readiness for the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) tournament sch ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lesotho\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-08-05T13:55:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-08-05T14:14:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_16-62ed25b1c46f0.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1039\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Likuena ready for COSAFA tourney\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-08-05T13:55:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-08-05T14:14:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney\"},\"wordCount\":172,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/sites\/62\/2022\/08\/postQueueImg_16-62ed25b1c46f0.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Lesotho\",\"football\",\"Lesotho\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/likuena-ready-for-cosafa-tourney\",\"name\":\"Likuena ready for COSAFA tourney - 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