/ 9 January 2000

ANOTHER BLOW FOR ZAMBIA

ZAMBIA suffered another shock in their build up to the African Nations Cup when they lost 4-3 to the Zimbabwe Olympic team on Saturday. Dennis Lota, Bernard Makufi and Andrew Sinkala, who play their club football in South Africa, Sweden and Germany respectively, scored for Chipolopolo (Copper Bullets). Zambia, who launch their Nations Cup Group C challenge in Nigeria on January 23 against holders Egypt, were humiliated 7-1 by Honduras in mid-December. The Zambians will face Zimbabwe again Sunday and complete their programme with two matches against the Democratic Republic of Congo on January 15 and 16. Flight problems prevented the Congolese travelling this weekend.