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Sports in Zambia:
Popular
sports in Zambia include; soccer, basketball, volleyball, martial
art disciplines and in recent years; cricket and rugby. Zambia
also regularly sends teams to the Commonwealth and Olympic Games.
Soccer in Zambia:
Soccer is the most popular sport in Zambia. The country has
managed to produce a number of quality players who are currently
plying their trade in professional leagues around the world.
Leading clubs include; the Kabwe Warriors, Lusaka Dynamos, Power
Dynamos, Nakambala Leopards, Zanaco FC and Konkola Blades.
The
national team is one of the prominent in the southern-African
region. The team known as “Chipolopolo” won the COSAFA
regional cup in 1997 and 1998. Zambia has also participated at
the finals of the Africa Nations Cup twelve times and were losing
finalists at the 1974 and 1994 finals. Sadly one of the most
notable events in Zambian sport is the air disaster of 1993 when
the plane carrying the national squad crashed off the coast of
Gabon enroute to Senegal for a World Cup Qualifier.
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