Zambia national team head coach Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic has said Chipolopolo have the capability to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations tournament set to be held in Cameroon in 2021.
Speaking in an interview with Zambia national television, ZNBC, Micho said the country has quality players who can overturn the current Group H standing where the Chipolopolo is on the bottom with no point.
“When you look at the situation, it is not giving you any confidence, scoring one, conceding seven, having zero points with opponents ahead of us. You have a situation where two matches (upcoming against Botswana) that we expect that all this (covid-19) passes soon that at the end of June we are looking to play because CAF has two plans either in June or August,” he said.
“Whenever it is that time, we need to play every single match like suicide bombers giving everything. The quality of our players with the deepest attention to details of the technical team, plus the support of all stakeholders, we have everything it takes with this neurosurgeon operation.”
The Frenchman was appointed as Chipolopolo coach on February 3, 2020 and has been re-organizing the national team with local camps that culminated into an international friendly match with Malawi on March 12 in Lusaka.
The Chipolopolo won 1-0 through a Collins Sikombe goal as Micho tested local players in two stanzas that saw two different teams fielded.
Zambia last participated in this continental showpiece in 2015, where they were eliminated in the group stages.
