Times Of Swaziland: COSAFA U-20S DOMINATE MOZ SQUAD

COSAFA U-20S DOMINATE MOZ SQUAD
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BY NTOKOZO MAGONGO on 03/06/2021 08:18:00


MBABANE – Mozambique’s national team to play Sihlangu and Lesotho in
international friendlies is dominated by the Under-20 squad that won the COSAFA
Under 20 Championships.
The friendly matches will be played on Saturday and Monday at Zimpeto Stadium,
outside Maputo. Mozambique coach Horácio Gonçalves has called up 25 players
for the two friendly matches. Mozambique Under-20 won the Council of Southern
African Football Association (COSAFA) Under-20 championships last year in
December. The squad also secured Mozambique’s first participation in the Total
U-20 AFCON held in Mauritania last February.
The squad comprise Mozambican Premier League side Black Bull goalkeeper Kimsson
Zavala, who is 16 years old and he is the youngest player called up for the
senior national team in the history of Mozambican football.
According to cafonline.com, the Portuguese coach, Horácio Gonçalves, justified
his choices by restructuring the team, starting with the COSAFA tournament and
the African Nations Championship (CHAN) campaign.
“This is a squad from the essential Olympic national team (Under-23) and is a
part of the process of integrating younger players into the senior national
team. The idea is to do a continuous and gradual work for the renewal of our
senior national team,” he said.