ZAMBIA U17 women’s national team coach Carol Kanyemba has attributed her side’s heavy 6-0 defeat to Canada in the round of 16 of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup Morocco 2025 to a “very relaxed approach” taken by her players. Speaking after the Copper Princesses bowed out of the tournament after failing to go past the round of 16, Kanyemba admitted that the girls failed to match Canada’s intensity from the onset, which proved costly in the knockout clash played on October 28, 2025. “A lot of lessons learnt on how you approach a knockout stage. I think our girls became relaxed. We tried to psyche them mentally and come in with an attitude of fighting but from the word...

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