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AFCON QUALIFIERS 2024: Warriors beat Brave Warriors 1-0

The Zimbabwean senior men’s football team, The Warriors has beaten the Brave Warriors of Namibia by a goal nil in the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON 2024) qualifiers in South Africa this afternoon.

The Warriors got their goal in the 34th minute courtesy of a Khama Billiat penalty.

The match was the first of the back-to-back clashes between these two teams aiming to get a ticket to the AFCON finals from a tough Group J pool that also has Cameroon and Kenya.

Only the top two getting the licence to fly to Morocco next year.

Without approved stadiums to accommodate international fixtures back in their respective homes, both Zimbabwe and Namibia have undertaken to take turns, housing each other at the Johannesburg venue with the Brave Warriors first hosting Zimbabwe this afternoon.

This is the first of the back-to-back clashes between these two Southern African countries aiming to clip a ticket to the AFCON finals from a tough Group J pool that also has Cameroon and Kenya with only the top two getting the licence to fly to Morocco next year.

Without approved stadiums to accommodate international fixtures back in their respective homes, both Zimbabwe and Namibia have undertaken to take turns, housing each other at the Johannesburg venue with the Brave Warriors first hosting Zimbabwe this afternoon.

Warriors starting 11 vs Namibia

Washington Arubi
Godknows Murwira
Brendan Galloway
Gerald Takwara
Jordan Zemura
Marvelous Nakamba
Andy Rinomhota
Marshall Munetsi
Khama Billiat
Terrence Dzukamanja
Daniel Musendami

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