{"id":444033,"date":"2011-06-20T05:31:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T05:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/20\/zambia-15s-rugby-squad-upbeat\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T05:31:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T05:31:56","slug":"zambia-15s-rugby-squad-upbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/zambia-15s-rugby-squad-upbeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia: 15s Rugby Squad Upbeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"18.3161172161\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.co.zm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/timeszambia180.jpg\" alt=\"The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" title=\"Visit The Times of Zambia (Ndola)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>18 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Zambia 15s rugby squad which leaves for Cameroun tonight wound up preparations for the Confederations of African Rugby (CAR) Africa Cup qualifier yesterday with coach Robertson Kang&#8217;ongwe optimistic of a positive result in Yaound\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Kang&#8217;ongwe said the team wrapped up preparations for the West African outing where they will play Cameroun and either Senegal or Botswana depending on the result of the opening game.<\/p>\n<p>Kang&#8217;ongwe said the players had come through unscathed in the last two training sessions and the team is upbeat despite the four players that have been ruled out through injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are fine today; at least we don&#8217;t have any more injury worries in camp. The players are looking forward to the outing. The competition for places in the team was very stiff,&#8221; the coach said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the team is expected to acclimatise to the weather patterns currently prevailing in Cameroun where minimum temperatures are ranging from 25-30 degrees as opposed to the fully fledged winter in Lusaka.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106200014.html\" title=\"Zambia: 15s Rugby Squad Upbeat\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zambia: 15s Rugby Squad Upbeat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 18 June 2011 The Zambia 15s rugby squad which leaves for Cameroun tonight wound up preparations for the Confederations of African Rugby (CAR) Africa Cup qualifier yesterday with coach Robertson Kang&#8217;ongwe optimistic of a positive result in Yaound\u00e9. Kang&#8217;ongwe said the team wrapped up preparations for the West African outing where they will play Cameroun and either Senegal or Botswana depending on the result of the opening game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Zambia: 15s Rugby Squad Upbeat - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/20\/zambia-15s-rugby-squad-upbeat\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Zambia: 15s Rugby Squad Upbeat - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"18 June 2011 The Zambia 15s rugby squad which leaves for Cameroun tonight wound up preparations for the Confederations of African Rugby (CAR) Africa Cup qualifier yesterday with coach Robertson Kang&#039;ongwe optimistic of a positive result in Yaound\u00e9. 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