IT is not by mistake or coincidence that various stakeholders have continued to express their concern over the Chipolopolo’s poor performance heading into the Morocco 2025 Africa Cup of Nations. And this is why. The Chipolopolo has failed to muster a single win in any competitive match spanning the FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers, Africa Cup of Nations finals and the COSAFA tournament.
The team has endured six defeats in those last nine competitive matches including the last five in a row. The 4-2 win over Congo Brazzaville in the FIFA 2026 World Cup qualifiers was the last time fans celebrated a victory before identical 2-1 defeats against Niger and Morocco, and the 1-0 loss to Tanzania followed (though not in that order). At the delayed Ivory Coast 2023 AFCON finals played in 2024, the team failed to win a single match having drawn two matches (1-1) against DR Congo and Tanzania then lost 1-0 to Morocco.
The record at the COSAFA outing where a team picked by Chisi Mbewe really put an embarrassing dent with three straight defeats without even scoring a goal and wonder how the next FIFA Coca-Cola ranking will show. Thus, with the Morocco 2025 AFCON draws conducted, there is need for the technical bench to ensure that the team act is put together for the 2012 African champions to be in a good place to take on the challenges in the qualifiers. “We have to consider the dismal performance in the ongoing World Cup qualifiers, the last AFCON Finals and the latest COSAFA outing.
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