5 WAFCON STARS IN SQUAD TO FACE BUFFS

MBABANE – Young Buffaloes ladies team have a mountain to climb in the 2022 HOLLYWOODBETS COSAFA Women’s Champions League.

They will face five of Zambia’s women national team’s stars who are playing for Green Buffaloes. The latter will be facing the local army side in the opening game of the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Women’s Champions League on August 7 in Durban, South Africa. Zambia are fresh from winning a bronze medal in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) tournament after beating former champions, Nigeria 1-0 in the third play-off.

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The players who were part of the 2022 TotalEnergies WAFCON in Morocco are Lushomo Mweemba, Anita Mulenga, Agness Musase, Martha Tembo and Natasha Nanyangwe. Green Buffaloes are in Group B alongside Young Buffaloes and Olympic de Moroni from Comoros. Only the top team in each pool advances to the final, while the second-placed sides will contest the third/fourth place play-off. The Zambians are the strongest in the group and they are favourites to win as they return for the second time having reached the semifinals last year.Young Buffaloes, on the other hand, are debutants.

According to cosafa.com, Green Buffaloes have set their sights on qualifying for the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Champions League to be played in Morocco later this year and have cause for optimism, with a number of players from the Zambia squad that won bronze at the recent WAFCON.
“We have pretty much the same squad as last year; there are maybe two or three changes. So there is good continuity there for us and that is important because these girls now know the level that is required,” said Coach Charles Haluboono. He added that they had a good season at home and were champions again.

Challenge

“It is a fair group; we are meeting these teams for the first time, not knowing the level they are at. So that will be a challenge because it makes it hard to plan for them. We just have to make sure we are ready as a team to execute our plans.“There is big growth in Zambian football, but this has been happening for some time. We did not get to where we are overnight; it has been a process of steady growth over years. The big thing now is that most parents who were preventing their girls from playing the game are now supportive, so that helps a great deal in terms of growing the talent pool,” he said.

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