NEW African champions Zambia want to return to the site of this month's Nations Cup triumph and play a friendly in Gabon next week.
Negotiations for a friendly in Libreville in a week's time, on February 29, are in progress.
Zambia FA spokesman Enock Mwanza said in Lusaka on Monday: "For us Gabon is a special place. First we would like to go and thank the people there, they looked after us very well.
"We won our first African cup there. We lost an entire team there," he said in a reference to their Nations Cup final triumph against Ivory Coast on February 12 and the 1993 air crash in Libreville where 18 players from the Zambian squad died.
Zambia had no plans for a friendly for next Wednesday's Fifa date before their success in the Nations Cup but now have several invitations for a hastily arranged match in the wake of their unexpected triumph, with Gabon top of the list.
"A friendly against Gabon would be symbolic," Mwanza added. Zambia upset the Ivory Coast in an 8-7 penalty shoot-out.
Chipolopolo head back to Gabon
NEW African champions Zambia want to return to the site of this month's Nations Cup triumph and play a friendly in Gabon next week.
Negotiations for a friendly in Libreville in a week's time, on February 29, are in progress.
Zambia FA spokesman Enock Mwanza said in Lusaka on Monday: "For us Gabon is a special place. First we would like to go and thank the people there, they looked after us very well.
"We won our first African cup there. We lost an entire team there," he said in a reference to their Nations Cup final triumph against Ivory Coast on February 12 and the 1993 air crash in Libreville where 18 players from the Zambian squad died.
Zambia had no plans for a friendly for next Wednesday's Fifa date before their success in the Nations Cup but now have several invitations for a hastily arranged match in the wake of their unexpected triumph, with Gabon top of the list.
"A friendly against Gabon would be symbolic," Mwanza added. Zambia upset the Ivory Coast in an 8-7 penalty shoot-out.
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