Senior national men’s football team interim coach, Bobby Samaria, has said they are hard at work fine-tuning the team ahead of their opening match against Senegal at the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Cup on Thursday.

The cup is set to run from 06 to 18 July in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

In an interview with Nampa recently, Samaria said it is no secret that contact sport was prohibited in Namibia from June and this forced them to take the team to South Africa for preparations.

“We started preparing on Monday (last week) and it’s coming along. The two friendly games we played over the weekend came in handy because we used those games as rehearsals for our tactical plan versus Senegal,” said the coach, adding that they still have three more sessions to fine tune their plan.

He added that they are in a very difficult group.

‘Senegal is a huge mountain in front of us, but mountains are there to be climbed and we are certainly going to give our all when we face them,” Samaria stated.

He said their target at the competition is, like any other team, to progress to the knock-out stages.

“Notwithstanding the tough opponents, our defensive organisation, and what we do in the vital moments of play should be on point,” he added.

Namibia is in Group C and starts against Senegal on 08 July, before facing Zimbabwe on 11 July and finishing off the group stages on 14 July against Mozambique.

The team played played a friendly against Lesotho on Saturday and another against Botswana on Sunday, with the first match ending in a goalless stalemate, while the subsequent match ended with a 1-1 scoreline.

Source: Namibia Press Agency