Pretoria has been chosen as the venue for next month’s Bafana-Bafana versus Chipolopolo friendly match.
The South Africa Football Association said in a statement posted on its website that the game will be played at the Lucas Moripe Stadium in Atteridgeville on January 11.
Safa said the match will kickoff at 20:00.
The game is Zambia’s last friendly before heading to the Africa Cup to be co-hosted by Gabon and equatorial guinea from January 21 to February 12.
This will be the second time the two teams will meet at the same venue previously known as Super Stadium in a friendly.
Bafana beat Zambia 1-0 on January 20, 2009 in a match Herve Renard missed due personal reasons and that saw Patrice Beaumelle take charge for the team for that match.
Meanwhile, South Africa has named their 30-man team to face Zambia in that match that will have five foreign-based players.
Zambia is better than Bafana-Bafana! We should ask Negeria for Rematch ! Go Zambia!
But why not the centrally located Loftus Stadium in Acadia Pretoria? Attridgeville nikuchimuzi mwebantu!
Elo ubushiku, yaba!!
This match should have been held before the deadline for submitting names of players to CAF, In case some of the players may get injuried during friendly matches hence ruling them out of CAN, What will be the excuse?? And I am not in support of the idea of 4wks camping before the game at hand, the players are home sick, feed on different diets and/or exhausted during the long 4wks camping + 4wks footballing competition.