ZAMBIA interim coach Beston Chambeshi is determined to keep his job beyond the World Cup Qualifiers.
In July, Chambeshi was appointed interim coach to oversee the World Cup Qualifiers after the Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) fired Milutin Sredojević.
However, the team looks set to fail to make it to the World Cup but Chambeshi said he is working to keep the job beyond the qualifiers.
“Our job is about results, we will try with my technical staff that we push and keep our job,” Chambeshi said after Zambia’s 4-0 win over Mauritania.
Meanwhile striker Fashion Sakala said it was disappointing that the team is not going to the World Cup.
“We are all disappointed, all the players we are disappointed, it could have been better if we qualified to the World Cup and the next stage.
“It is sad but I think like I said we have to remove the word building a team I think the team that we have is really looking good we might qualify to the next competition,” Sakala said.
Sakala scored a hat trick in the match against Mauritania while Patson Daka contributed a goal to ensure the team move to seven points, three behind leaders Tunisia.
And Minister of Sport Elvis Nkandu hailed the team on the result and hoped that it is a mark of a turn around.
“I am very happy, very delighted that we have won. It is important to win games because at the end of the day it ignites morale in the citizens.
“What we have witnessed today is very good in the sense that we have not won games here especially the World Cup matches and what we have done now may go a long way,” Nkandu said.
