Zambia Under-17 kickoff their Algeria 2009 Caf Africa Under-17 cup qualifiers with a 1st round, 1st leg tie against Namibia Under-17 whom they host at Woodlands stadium in Lusaka today.
Aggrey Chiyangi’s side will have only one familiar face from Zambia’s participation in the 2007 Cosafa Under-17 Championship held in Namibia last December where they finished 3rd and where the hosts failed to reach the semifinals of the revived junior regional tournament.
Striker Patson Kaimana of Chilenje Youth Academy is the only old face still in the team from the Cosafa Under-17 tournament and he was one of the revelations from late 2007.
Kaimana, son of ex-Zambia international Pele Kaimana, will be counted on to inspire in attack with midfielder Mukuka Mulenga and defender Arthur Shiliya some of the other prospects to look out for.
Zambia face a Namibia side that enjoys a 9-0 aggregate win over Lesotho from the preliminary round played last April.
Namibia will be looking for some inspiration of their own from one of this years qualifiers top scorer Striker Eslin Kamuhanga who has 4 goals after scoring braces away and at home in 5-0 and 4-0 wins respectively over Lesotho in the 1st round.
Winner over the two legs will host either South Africa or Malawi in the 2nd round, 1st during the weekend of November 8 or 9 with the return leg to follow a fortnight later on the 22nd or 23rd.
Malawi currently enjoy a 1-0 away lead over South Africa at Eldorado Park played on August 30 ahead of this weekends final home leg match.
Winner over the two 2nd-round matches in November will qualify for the Algeria finals to be held from March 19 to April 3.
The youth are the future leaders, we hope the lads can develop to play in the under 20 national team and the under 23 national teams. For todays game, we wish them well. go bafana go, make us proud the young chipolopolo boys.
Yeah, thump dem Namibian boys.
Zambia 3:0 Namibia.
Peace.
# Go Bafana go wa loshya mwisa ni Go Young Chipolopolo go. Bafana is related to SA whose Senior Team has been kicked out AFCON, shame, World Cup hosts getting the boot, bwafya
#1 Go Bafana go wa loshya mwisa ni Go Young Chipolopolo go. Bafana is related to SA whose Senior Team has been kicked out AFCON, shame, World Cup hosts getting the boot, bwafya
Zambia face a Namibia side that enjoys a 9-0 aggregate win over Lesotho from the preliminary round played last April – So What nimwe ba Reporter, what is Lesotho, the young boys will carry the day as an encouragement the Senior Team
Teach them Namibians how the game is played.
4 Zed Namibia 0.
Watch the space and hope some soccer loving Zedians will get us posted on here.
Thanx a bunch
im happy xeno RSA has been booted not of afcon. besides they don’t like fellow africans. now they’ll play world cup with heads down.
Condolerances to RSA.Wiping,kicking out your fellows a curse on you.
All the best boys
when i say bafana my friend it simply means young ones, it appears you chap you have spent so much time away from home that you have even forgotten our local languages. mind you i did not say bafana bafana.
i will further say that i wish the baiche chipolopolo all the best as they take on Namibia.
kafusha shimika tunfwe.
guys pa zed,updates on the on going game under 17.
#10 JY mwaiche iwe ine mbe chap when I have a daughter your age. Ok baiche chipolopolo that is better nai we. Anyway we shall win
There is blackout of informaton on such activities in Zed due to National mourning. Double standards are being exhibited here. Just two days after burrial, RB’s supporters were vigourously dancing before and after the NEC election. They even had chitenges with RB’s face on them. I wonder when they got printed.
Guys any one with results for the U-17’s.
draw 0-0
#15biv,atl ga where did you get the results?results will only be realesed after recounting.
Draw? iyaba! Elo zilo zilo nayo? iyeee. Think they should do a recount.
#16 goggle
Namibia U17’s stun Zambia
Submitted by admin on Sun, 09/14/2008 – 21:55. Football
Namibia pulled off a stunning win on penalties against Zambia in an African U17 football qualifier at a packed Khomasdal Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Namibia rose to the occasion with a committed performance and had to dig deep when captain Osvaldo Xamseb was sent off after 60 minutes after picking up a second yellow card. But Namibia defended superbly to take the match into penalties where keeper Collin Ndjai first pulled off a great save before Zambia’s Patson Kaimana hit the post to give Namibia a 4-2 victory.
The packed crowd went wild with delight as did the Namibian players and coaching staff who
#19 continued: celebrated with unbridled joy at beating one of Southern Africa’s powerhouses. With the first leg in Lusaka a week ago ending 0-0, Namibia now progress to the next round of the qualifiers where they will meet Malawi. Malawi beat South Africa 2-1 on Sunday to win their tie 3-1 on aggregate. The winner of the match between Namibia and Malawi will qualify for the African U17 Youth Championships which takes place in Algeria in march, 2009.
#20 continued: Namibia put Zambia under some early pressure with Eslin Kamuhanga putting in some strong runs down the left wing. Samuel Urikhob was dangerous in the box and Zambian keeper Kennedy Mumba had to make some early saves.
Zambia nearly took the lead against the run of play when Jimmy Ndhlovu’s shot was cleared off the line by Xamseb on 26 minutes, but most of the action was at the other end and Urikhob, Kamuhanga and Xamseb all had shots saved.
Drama continues unabated
There was drama at the start of the second half as Zambia twice hit the post from a corner. But Namibia immediately counterattacked with Urikhob racing down the right wing and sending in a perfect cross only
#21 continued: Zambia put everything into attack in the final quarter but Namibia defended brilliantly none more so that the goalie Ndjai. He threw himself bravely at the feet of Zambia’s strikers to thwart their attacks and on twice had to receive medical attention before continuing to play.
Sackeus Wilbard and Gregorius Tsuseb were also rock solid in defence, while Ryan Gariseb, who took over the captain’s armband, played his heart out in the midfield.
In the final stages Ndhlovu, Chisembele Chipepo and Patson Kaimana all came close to scoring, but they could not break through.
The match went into penalties and the drama continued unabated. Ndjai pulled off a great save from Kenny
#22 continued: Lungu, but Zambia’s keeper Kennedy Mumba immediately saved Sakeus Wilbard’s shot to put the teams level again.
The match however once again swung Namibia’s way when Patson Kaimana’s shot his the upright and when Dene Swartz hit the back of the net, Namibia had won the shoot out 4-3 to set off some wild celebrations.