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Hundreds of thousands of Zambian fans welcome the Chipolopolo home
The Chipolopolo were given a fantastic welcome on return to their country at the beginning of the week, as well as €45,058 each
By Peter Pedroncelli
Zambia defeated favourites Cote d'Ivoire 8-7 in a penalty shootout at the end of a goalless final on Sunday night to earn the right to be called champions of Africa.
The Afcon victory has seen many Zambian people visiting the burial site of the 1993 squad who passed away in a plane crash off the coast of Gabon. The country's president Michael Sata is expected to lay a wreath at the burial site on Tuesday to honour the victims of that fateful crash.
The Zambian government has decided to reward the Afcon winning squad members with $59,000 (€45,058) each, sports minister Chishimba Kambwili said on Tuesday.
"The government has given each one of you $59,000, and that is beside what the corporate organisations might decide to give. This money is from the government," Kambwili said on national radio.
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"But, we came through. Obviously there were a lot of changes so it's good to get the result.
"Belgium are a very, very strong side who are going to be really good in the future. Vincent [Kompany] told me about them and said that they were coming good and I totally agree with him."
"[Gary] Cahill I suppose is slightly more of a concern for me because it is a jaw injury. We're desperately hoping the CT scan doesn't show any fracture and it's just going to be a bruising situation, which will be bad enough, but won't stop him taking part in the tournament. As far as John's [Terry] concerned he felt his hamstring a little bit. Again it wasn't a major thing when he came off but we still need to scan it just to be 100 per cent sure."
Suffice to say, if Cahill has broken his jaw, he won't play any part in the tournament.
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