IT’S back to work for the Copper Queens, after a break that lasted over seven weeks, when they face Morocco in the first of two international friendlies in Rabat this evening. Both sides are back in action for the first time since making their FIFA Women’s World Cup debut at the tournament co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand from July 20 to August 20. The Bruce Mwape tutored side made a group stage exit, while Morocco bowed out at the last 16 knockout stages. The Mwape-led technical bench heads into this encounter without a few key players, including first-choice goalkeeper Hazel Nali, who is still recovering from surgery undertaken in August on an injury she sustained in a pre-tournament camp...

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