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Namibia coach Mannetti confident at COSAFA

Xinhua, May 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

Ten days before the COSAFA Cup kick-off in South Africa, Namibia coach Ricardo Mannetti on Wednesday showed his strong confidence in sound performance.

The COSAFA tournament, attracting Angola, Botswana, the Comoros Islands, Lesotho Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, the Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe, will run from May 17-30.

Namibia will play Seychelles on May 17 at Moruleng near Rustenburg.

Mannetti said he was motivated by the fact that there is a pool of good players "ready to play for the team whenever they get the call" .

"I have had a number of players to assess and they have all really pushed themselves to catch my eye," he said.

Mannetti, a former Namibian national team player himself, said he would release the names of the 20-man squad - nine locally-based and 11 foreign-based soon.

The coach further said the locally-based players are expected to go into camp in Windhoek next Monday.

He said his team will also train in South Africa at the High Performance Centre, Pretoria where he expects Namibian players who are based abroad to join.

"We continue for a week there before getting down to business in Moruleng," he said. Endi