“We only made good preparations because I have Jamie Lawrence in the team, a fitness trainer who is an expert in these things and we trained the players!” – Grant.
Lusaka, Feb. 5 – They put us on a 30 hour flight with 9 hour connections. One flight had 4 stops in the middle and as a result, we lost 11 training units and another 2 training games.
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In the second half against Morocco, we surpassed them in terms of physical fitness, it should have been like that from the first game but we lacked training. I’m not afraid to say they that they’ll say I’m making excuses but I’m only talking about objective reasons that I’ve never come across in my career.
It’s not only that the players are inexperienced, the entire management of the association in Zambia is also inexperienced and one that is not from football and has never been to the African Championship (AFCON).
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The first time they (FAZ) understood what they were doing was when we played against Cameroon, where Samuel Eto’o is the chairman and he explained to them the conditions and how many practice matches they played, how many training sessions they did and that they flew in a direct flight from Dubai unlike us.
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