BRUCE MWAPE HINTS AT TEAM ROTATION IN TOMORROW'S MOROCCO ENCOUNTER

Lweendo Jere

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7:56 AM • September 26, 2023

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Copper Queens head coach, Bruce Mwape, has hinted at making changes to his starting lineup for the second of the two-series friendly match against Morocco tomorrow. The Copper Queens defeated Morocco 2-0 in the first friendly on Friday, thanks to two second-half goals from Barbara Banda. Mwape wants to give a chance to a number of locally-based players who will play at the 2023 COSAFA Women's Championship next month. "I think we can start with five or six new players and later introduce the others, especially the ones who will play COSAFA, so that we give them a chance to express themselves and see where we need to improve," Mwape said. Mwape earlier confirmed that only locally-based players will be part of the squad that will compete at the regional showpiece, which will take place between 4-15 October in Johannesburg, South Africa. "Tomorrow's game, I think we intend to make a few changes so that everyone is given a chance and people can see, and the technical bench can assess players individually. As we go to COSAFA, we need to have a good number of players because the foreign-based players will not be part of the COSAFA Women's Championship," Mwape said. "The COSAFA Championship will be taken very seriously because, as I said earlier, we are preparing for the Olympic qualifiers and the WAFCON, so we will take them seriously. We will only have about three days to see the new players who will be included, so we will prepare them adequately so that we defend the COSAFA when we get to South Africa." Zambia is placed in Group B alongside Angola, Mozambique, and Comoros for the upcoming COSAFA tournament.

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