OUR female national soccer team has ended their FIFA World Cup tour on a high note with a hard-earned 3 points in a grueling encounter against Costa Rica yesterday. Soccer fans couldn’t get enough of that game, while critics couldn’t believe what they saw from the “Copper Queens”, having written them off following two successive 5-0 losses to Japan and Spain. Although the 3-1 victory over Costa Rica has made many football lovers in the country happy, it’s impossible to ignore some of the sentiments that were being aired after the successive 5-0 defeats to Japan and Spain in the open two games of the tournament. Be it members of the technical bench, the stand in goalkeeper Catherine Musonda, the...

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