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Hundreds of thousands of Zambian fans welcome team home
The Chipolopolo were given a fantastic reception on the return to their country at the beginning of the week.
Feb 14, 2012 10:51:00 AM
By Peter Pedroncelli
Renard - Zambia coach
The Zambia national team was met by around 200,000 people at the Lusaka show grounds as it returned home on Monday following their successful 2012 Africa Cup of Nations campaign.
Zambia defeated favorite 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 players who passed away in a plane crash off the coast of Gabon in 1993. The country's president Michael Sata is expected to lay a wreath at the burial site on Tuesday to honor the victims of that fateful crash.
The Zambian government has decided to reward the AFCON winning squad members with $59 000 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 organizations might decide to give. This money is from the government," Kambwili said on national radio.
Zambia defeated favorite 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 players who passed away in a plane crash off the coast of Gabon in 1993. The country's president Michael Sata is expected to lay a wreath at the burial site on Tuesday to honor the victims of that fateful crash.
The Zambian government has decided to reward the AFCON winning squad members with $59 000 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 organizations might decide to give. This money is from the government," Kambwili said on national radio.
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