{"id":80116,"date":"2024-11-04T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/copper-queens-regain-cosafa-crown"},"modified":"2024-11-04T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T16:42:00","slug":"copper-queens-regain-cosafa-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\/all-news\/copper-queens-regain-cosafa-crown","title":{"rendered":"Copper Queens regain Cosafa crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. <\/strong><\/span><b>Zambia\u2019s 2024 Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship title triumph was down to teamwork and strong belief in their ability, winning coach Florence Mwila says.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Copper Queens defeated hosts South Africa 4-3 on penalties, following a goalless draw in the final in Gqeberha on Saturday, to take home the trophy they lost to Malawi in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Zambia\u2019s previous success came in 2022, while Banyana Banyana were hoping to lift the trophy for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the competition by overcoming Malawi in the semi-finals and then record championship winners South Africa was no mean feat, Mwila says.<\/p>\n<p>The victory also showed the Copper Queens\u2019 strength in depth, having claimed honours minus star player Babra Banda, voted the 12th best women\u2019s football player in the world, according to the Ballon D\u2019or.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank God we got the trophy like we promised we would. Overall, we\u2019re proud of the girls and how far they\u2019ve come. Our biggest strength is that we play as a team. We pushed each other and motivated each other,\u201d says Mwila, whose standout players, Ochumba Lubanji and Fridah Mukoma, shared the golden boot after they scored four goals each, while the Copper Queens also took the Fair Play award.<\/p>\n<p>The standard of the game in southern Africa has risen rapidly in recent years, Mwila says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see that the teams are really doing something about it \u2013 there\u2019s so much improvement. I\u2019ll talk about the Comoros beating a strong team like Angola.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat shows you we are really headed in the right direction. For the other teams, they\u2019ll know what to work on,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had two teams from the southern region going to the Fifa Women\u2019s World Cup. That shows you how strong the southern region is right now on the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Making light of the loss, South Africa coach Maude Khumalo says the experience of getting to the final with her youthful second-string side was priceless.<\/p>\n<p>The full Banyana Banyana team is on tour in Europe in preparation of the defence of their Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations crown.<\/p>\n<p>Banyana\u2019s Isabella Ludwig won the player of the tournament prize, with teammate Jessica Williams claiming the golden glove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZambia have more experience than our young Banyana team,\u201d Khumalo says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to build a team \u2013 future players that could maybe help beef up the senior team to prepare for the upcoming tournament like the Wafcon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I am very positive, because these are young players and this is where you start to build.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/namibia\">Namibia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. Zambia\u2019s 2024 Cosafa Women\u2019s Championship title triumph was down to teamwork and strong belief in their ability, winning coach Florence Mwila says. The Copper Queens defeated hosts South Africa 4-3 on penalties, following a goalless draw in the final in Gqeberha on Saturday, to take home the trophy they lost to Malawi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":80115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[234,236,233],"class_list":["post-80116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-namibia","tag-namibia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Copper Queens regain Cosafa crown - Namibia<\/title>\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\/namibia\/all-news\/copper-queens-regain-cosafa-crown\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Copper Queens regain Cosafa crown\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Namibia. 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