Victorious Zambia Schools Team defender Mathews Sichone says it was not easy for the youngsters to win the recent COPA Coca-Cola continental championship held in South Africa.
Last Wednesday, Zambia won the week long 2012 COPA Coca-Cola championship after collecting 16 points in eight matches played on a round robin basis.
Sichone said Zambia faced a number of challenges on their way to scooping the tournament in Pretoria.
“There have been a lot of difficulties on our road to winning this title. The weather in South Africa was a challenge that we had to acclamatise to,” he told KickOff.
“We also did not start off well. We started with a defeat but we did not drop our heads and went on to conquer all the teams after that,” Sichone said.
He expressed joy over Zambia’s achievement.
“I am very delighted that things went our way and that we won the tournament. My goal was to play well for my team and win the tournament.
Sichone has been selected in the continental All Star Team.
Well done boys. You have done us proud.
Zambian Soccer going back to where it was pre-Gabon. Now I believe what many soccer pundits said after the Gabon air disaster that it was going to take us at least 20 years to build the game and be able to compete again at high level. Though I’m not fully satisfied with the caliber of the senior national team, but the developments in the recent past like winning the CAN 2012 and having a Zambian play in a big league (Mayuka) gives us hope of a bright future. Congrats boys
Zambian football on the rise again as we just produce someone like the Legendary Great Kalu in the making which truelly lies in the youthful league to take up the mantle of the future.
Lovely !
Zambia Schools… Reminds me of the good old days when ZCCM was funky.
The boy Sichone should play in Kampala, he can play in position of Hichani. Or move Sunzu to #6 like he used to in past, then 4 & 5 is this Sichole & HH, ka can rest. or play place of that Katongo who will defenately not make to Uganda, people are sleeping ku Manda to make sure he develops a rash.
The whole article does not mention that it is football – and expect us to figure out by mentioning Zambia Schools. Yaba!!
which teams were playing?
Good stuff for the future
A breath of fresh air away from the politics.We done boys
Poor Journalism, we want to know how many countries participated and which teams the Zambian boys played. What were the scored? Who scored for Zambia and the overall golden boot winner if such a thing was there… Data data kaili not this scrap!!!!!!!!!!!! Nyway congrats young boys, concetrate on football as well as school so that u can use yo heads on the pitch not lyk that a Mr Chamanga……uuuuuuuuuusssssssssshhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
This was plagiarised from kickoff.