Times of Zambia (Ndola)-A CONFIDENT Zambia soccer squad today set off for its 2012 Orange Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals battlefront in Equatorial Guinea after completing an extensive three-week training programme in South Africa.
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The Zambia national football team represents Zambia in men’s international association football and it is governed by the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ). During the 1980s, they were known as the KK 11, after founding president Dr. Kenneth Kaunda (“KK”) who ruled Zambia from 1964 to 1991. After the country adopted multiparty politics, the side was nicknamed Chipolopolo, the “Copper Bullets”. The team has three Africa Cup of Nations final appearances to its credit, winning the 2012 tournament with victory over Ivory Coast in the final. The team has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals.
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-AS the Zambia soccer squad wraps up its three-week extensive training programme today, coach Herve Renard says the Chipolopolo will need to be well-organised, strong and efficient when they face off Senegal in the opening 2012 O...
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-FORMER Zambia coach, Dario Bonetti has tipped the Chipolopolo to reach the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-AFTER gearing up to don a Zambian jersey at the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) kicking off next Saturday in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, Roger Kola was told to stay home.
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-ZAMBIA soccer team coach, Herve Renard has said he is optimistic the Chipolopolo Boys will go all the way at the Equatorial Guinea/Gabon 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament starting in eight days time.
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-THE last time Bafana Bafana and Zambia met in Cape Town in 2007, Chipolopolo skipper, Christopher Katongo (below) almost single-handedly destroyed the South Africans with his hat-trick in a 3-1 victory.
CAF (Giza)-The current Football Association of Zambia president, Kalusha Bwalya lost 23 of his team-mates in a plane crash near the Gabonese capital on the 27th of April 1993 and the tragedy will be in the upper minds of all Zambians when the national ...
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-TWO weeks before the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, South African National First Division League side, Mpumalanga Black Aces have recalled Zambia goalkeeping coach, Davies Phiri fro...
CAF (Giza)-The Zambia football team coach Herve Renard seems happy with the way his side's preparations for the 28th Orange Africa Cup of Nations finals are going at their training camp in South Africa.
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-AFTER four days of high-intensity training at their South African base, Zambian players yesterday took time out from training to recharge before resuming the final phase of preparations for this month's Africa Cup of Nations (AF...
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-THE Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has drawn praise from an unlikely source for its secondment of Davies Phiri as goal keeping coach to the Chipolopolo currently in camp for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals.
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-ZAMBIA coach Herve Renard is satisfied with the progress his charges have made in readiness for this month's African Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals, saying the Chipolopolo are now capable of winning AFCON matches.
Times of Zambia (Ndola)-FORMER Zambia first choice goalkeeper, Davies Phiri has been drafted into the Chipolopolo technical team to help prepare the squad for the Orange African Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals.
THE Zambia soccer team yesterday left for South Africa for a final training camp ahead of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals with players confident of a good showing but cautious of Group A opponents.
Zambian coach Herve Renard has named a 28 men squad which he is taking to South Africa for their final preparatory camp before heading to Equatorial Guinea.
ZAMBIA were yesterday expected to re-group in Lusaka ahead of today's departure for South Africa for the final phase of preparations for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals.
Coach Herve Renard has included most of his regular Chipolopolo charges in the squad for Gabon/Equatorial Guinea 2012 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) finals which has two new faces.
Zambian striker James Chamanga's ankle injury looks set to see him miss next month's Africa Cup of Nations finals. The Chipolopolo coach Herve Renard said in an interview in Lusaka that Chamanga's injury requires an operation to mend and the striker is...
Zambian striker James Chamanga's ankle injury looks set to see him miss next month's Africa Cup of Nations finals. The Chipolopolo coach Herve Renard said in an interview in Lusaka that Chamanga's injury requires an operation to mend and the striker is...
THE Zambia national soccer team could not fly back home from Angola yesterday after their scheduled commercial flight could not to take off from Luanda due bad weather.