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Zambia coach Honour Janza
Zambia coach Honour Janza says the Malawi friendly will be a great opportunity for his Cosafa Castle Cup call-ups to impress him.
Chipolopolo will host Malawi on May 10 at Nkoloma Stadium in Lusaka ahead of next month’s 2015 Cosafa Castle Cup to be hosted in South Africa.
“The friendly will be an opportunity for local players to showcase their skills to prove their credentials for possible inclusion in the Cosafa team,” Janza said.
May’s meeting will be the two sides’ first clash since July 2012 when Malawi beat Zambia 1-0 in another friendly in Blantyre.
“Malawi is a good team and the boys should put in their best,” Janza said.
Meanwhile, the friendly will come seven days before the Cosafa Cup tournament that will run from May 17-30 in the North West province of South Africa.
Zambia and Malawi are on a bye from the preliminary round group stage matches and will enter the competition in the quarterfinals that start on May 24.
Malawi will face Mozambique on May 24 while defending champions Zambia await the victor from Group A on May 25.
Group A comprises Namibia, Seychelles, Mauritius and Zimbabwe.
This will be Zambia’s second friendly since returning from the 2015 Africa Cup in Equatorial Guinea after beating Rwanda 2-0 on March 29 at National Heroes Stadium in Lusaka.