by Ba Muzo Zambia spared the blushes of Coach Herve Renard with his surprise starting choices to come away with a priceless draw away to the fancied reigning Africa kings Pharaohs of Egypt to kick start a dream journey for that elusive World Cup appearance...

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Egypt will be favourites to get their World Cup qualification campaign off to a winning start when they host Zambia on Sunday. The two teams last clashed in January 2008 at the Nations Cup in Ghana, which ended in a 1-1 draw. What: 2010 World Cup And...

Zambia’s opponents in the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier played to a goalless draw in Kigali. Minnows Rwanda held Algeria in the opening fixture. And elswhere in the other groups, Gabon and Togo produced the outstanding results on the opening day...

Zambian Premier League side Zanaco thumped Lusaka Dynamos 5-0 in Saturday’s league match. On loan Congolese striker Patrick Kabamba who started in place of Given Singuluma scored a hatrick and became the second player this season to snatch a hatrick...

Egypt coach Hassan Shehata believes the opener of the World Cup qualifiers final phase will be difficult regardless of Zambia’s caliber. “Beginnings are always difficult,” Shehata told the Egyptian FA official website on Thursday. “Our...

Chipolopolo Boys’ French born Herve Renard has dropped four players including Swedish based midfielder Isaac ‘ Gattuso’ Chansa. The other three drooped are France based teenage Stophira Sunzu, Davies Nkausu of South African PSL side Supersport United...

by Dinamo, Shom Shom’ as his Kitwe fans named him begun his soccer career in the Power youth teams in the late 80s when his father was head coach at the Kitwe based club. Despite showing a lot of potential ‘Shom Shom’ briefly stopped all football activities...

In this column, Zambianfootball.net’s Ba Muzo compiles extracts from the back pages of the major Zambian tabloids. Below are the extracts… Zambia national team players are upbeat on the chances of the Chipolopolo upsetting the reigning Africa...

Herve Renard on Wednesday night gave a hint on how his starting line up might look like against the Pharoals in this Sunday’s FIFA 2010 World Cup qualifier slated for Cairo international stadium. According to Zambianfootball.net’s Katenje Mukumba in South...

by Ba Muzo The squad to play Egypt in a crucial 2010 World Cup/Africa Cup qualifier on Sunday that is in camp in South Africa is arguably the best Zambia has assembled in recent times bar the absence of the Germany based duo of Moses Sichone and Andrew...

Armenian based left back Emmanuel Mbola arrived last night at the national team’s training camp, Milpark’s Holiday inn hotel in Johannesburg to complete the number of players called for this Sunday’s mouth watering encounter against the Pharaohs of Egypt...

Upcoming defence kingpin Hichani Himonde is set to miss this Sunday’s joint 2010 Africa/World Cup qualifier against the reigning African Champions after suffering a bout of malaria. And in place of Himonde, Chipolopolo Boys’ French-born Herve Renard coach...

Egypt coach Hassan Shehata named a 24-man list for the upcoming World Cup qualifier against Zambia on March 29th. The African champions are set to start preparations for the crucial Group C tie, before announcing the final squad for the match next week...

South African based goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene has joined the national team camp in Johansburg. The Free State Stars comfirmed to the Zambianfootball.net that he is camp and looking forward to this Sunday’s crunching encounter against Egypt. And...