Times Of Swaziland: LESOTHO FRIENDLY CALLED OFF,  PLAYERS RELEASED FROM CAMP

LESOTHO FRIENDLY CALLED OFF,  PLAYERS RELEASED FROM CAMP
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BY SABELO GWEBU on 14/11/2017 04:07:00


MBABANE – Sihlangu’s proposed friendly game against Lesotho’s Likuena
Likuena, which has been kept under wraps, was called off at the eleventh hour
with players released to their respective teams yesterday.
Sihlangu, according to confirmations from Lesotho, were to play their Lesotho
counterparts tonight at the Setsoto Stadium in Maseru. Reasons for the
cancellation were not clear but it could be the fact that tonight’s game was
to serve as Lesotho’s third in the current FIFA international week.
Lesotho recorded and emphatic 1-0 win over Zimbabwe’s ‘Warriors’ last
Wednesday before Saturday’s 1-all draw away to Malawi ‘Flames’ at the
Bingu National Stadium.
The squad was expected to leave their FA Technical Centre Lobamba base at
12:30pm yesterday.
The National Football Association of Swaziland (NFAS) has struggled to secure a
friendly match for Pieter de Jongh and his charges despite promises last month
as the nation’s pride gears to welcome the continent’s top ranked nation
Tunisia in the 2019 AFCON qualifiers next March.
“The FA would like to inform the public and all stakeholders that it has since
decided to release the players from camp back to their football clubs today
(yesterday), following the none success (sic) in the acquisition of an
international friendly match within this FIFA Week, despite the fact that it had
already tentatively secured two matches even before the start of the FIFA
Week,” read a statement from the FA yesterday afternoon.