COPPER Queens captain Barbra Banda has become the first player in the history of the Olympic Games to score three hattricks as Zambia gave up a comfortable lead to lose 6-5 to Australia in a thrilling Group B fixture played last night at the Stade de Nice in France. After becoming the first footballer male or female to score back-to-back hattricks at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, Banda stunned the Matildas with a first half treble to add to her amazing Olympics record. The world’s most expensive footballer, Racheal Kundananji, also showed her class as she contributed a brace in the eleven goal thriller. The duo’s impressive showing was however not good enough as the Matildas claimed victory to end...

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