CHIPOLOPOLO will play Lesotho in the first leg of their 2023 AFCON qualifier at 18:00 hours today, and coach Avram Grant is optimistic of success on his debut. Ndola’s Levy Mwanawasa Stadium will host the crunch Group H fixture which will effectively decide Zambia’s destiny in the competition. The Copper Bullets, who last featured at the AFCON finals in 2015, have failed miserably in their last three attempts to grace the competition which they conquered in 2012. The sequence of AFCON qualification failures is unprecedented and Chipolopolo is battling to avoid extending it to an unthinkable number four. Avram Grant has become the sixth coach to handle AFCON qualifiers during Zambia’s wondering years in the football desert, but he says...