Africa-Press – Zambia. Chipolopolo boys hard at work in Maputo ahead of Sunday’s 2022 CHAN first round, first leg qualifier against The Mambas. CHAN, abbreviation for The African Nations Championship, is a second tier AFCON for home-based national team players.
Zambia has qualified for the last three CHAN tournaments but made a quarterfinal exit’s in all of them. Apparently, in Mozambique, the Chipolopolo team is upbeat and the camp is burning with confidence as they fine tune their act, with light training ahead of the encounter.
Enroute to Mozambique, the copper bullets held a three-day training camp in Durban, South Africa. This is where they just won the 2022 COSAFA Cup, a premier trophy for Southern Africa on July 17 after a 1 nil win over Namibia at Moses Mabhida Stadium.
Meanwhile, Aljosa Asanovic’s team will play Mozambique in a first round, first leg qualifying fixture this Sunday, July 24 in Maputo. Chipolopolo midfielder Joshua Mutale who had a top notch performance in his COSAFA Cup debut winning the man-of-the-match in the final is one of those looking forward to his first-ever CHAN qualifiers.
“This is the most important game. When we do well in Mozambique I things will be easy in Zambia,” the Power Dynamos midfielder said.
“We promise them that we won’t disappoint our fans and we want to make them proud.” Chipolopolo will host Mozambique in the final leg on July 30. The winner will play Malawi next month over two legs to decide who qualifies to the delayed 2022 CHAN to be hosted by Algeria.
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