The Young Chipolopolo recorded three draws against Sierra Leone, Egypt, and South Africa-and a narrow 1-0 win over Tanzania.

However, the results were not enough, as they finished fourth in the group and exited the tournament. In their final and decisive group match, Zambia drew  NIL All  with South Africa's Amajita, ending their campaign on a disappointing note. Zambia's coach, Boyd Mulwanda is disappointed, “Very disappointing. We needed to win this game in the first half. We'd created a lot of scoring opportunities, but it wasn't meant to be. We look forward to the next edition that will come. We just have to encourage the boys to keep on your working hard. It wasn't our day today.

Mulwanda also pointed to poor preparation as a key factor in the team's performance. Zambia played only one friendly match against Ghana just three days before the tournament. Mulwanda says they will have to prepare well ahead of any tournament,” It's disappointing for the boys not losing a game, and then you're out of the tournament.

I think we just have to keep on talking to the boys. We've learned a lot of lessons. I think the boys when we started the first game, they were jittery.

But after the second game, they picked up, and then from there, we would see that there was an improvement from the boys.

I think in the when coming for such tournaments, we need to have more friendly games so that the boys get used to such environments, and they get used to playing international matches.

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