{"id":209607,"date":"2024-08-16T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/08\/16\/olympic-football-qualification-tournament-zambia-field-their-best-players-against-ghana\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T08:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T08:29:50","slug":"olympic-football-qualification-tournament-zambia-field-their-best-players-against-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/08\/16\/olympic-football-qualification-tournament-zambia-field-their-best-players-against-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Football Qualification Tournament: Zambia field their best players against Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Olympic Football Qualification Tournament: Zambia field their best players against Ghana<\/p>\n<div id=\"text_block-26-38432\" wp_automatic_readability=\"49.3272\"><span id=\"span-27-38432\" class=\"ct-span oxy-stock-content-styles\" wp_automatic_readability=\"30.3552\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ????><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zambia face Ghana in the third round of the Olympic Football Qualification Tournament on February 23 and 26. For this double-header, the Cooper Queens coach has called up 23 players, including new Bay FC striker Racheal Kundananji. Captain Barbra Banda will also be in the squad. The squad is dominated by players from Zambian club Green Buffaloes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" wp_automatic_readability=\"7.2916666666667\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Copper Queens final 23-member squad for Friday\u2019s Paris 2024 Olympic Women Football Tournament third round, first leg qualifier against Ghana. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WeAreCopperQueens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">#WeAreCopperQueens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024Olympics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">#Paris2024Olympics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6ObyNcoNz6\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6ObyNcoNz6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FAZ (@FAZFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FAZFootball\/status\/1759527967556849799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">February 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--begin code --><!--end code --><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js?v=next');\n<\/script><script>\n                    (function(d, s, id) {\n                        var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n                        if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n                        js = d.createElement(s);\n                        js.id = id;\n                        js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.5\";\n                        fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n                    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n                <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Football Qualification Tournament: Zambia field their best players against Ghana \u00a0 Zambia face Ghana in the third round of the Olympic Football Qualification Tournament on February 23 and 26. For this double-header, the Cooper Queens coach has called up 23 players, including new Bay FC striker Racheal Kundananji. Captain Barbra Banda will also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Olympic Football Qualification Tournament: Zambia field their best players against Ghana - 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\/2024\/08\/16\/olympic-football-qualification-tournament-zambia-field-their-best-players-against-ghana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Olympic Football Qualification Tournament: Zambia field their best players against Ghana - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Olympic Football Qualification Tournament: Zambia field their best players against Ghana \u00a0 Zambia face Ghana in the third round of the Olympic Football Qualification Tournament on February 23 and 26. 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