Online Reporter
Fungai Muderere
SCOTTLAND FC, you are beauty and true Zimbabwean football ambassadors!
Flamboyant Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) newboys Scottland FC, in a good gesture last week took some in Zambia to visit the 1993 Gabon air crash burial site where Zambia national football team members who died on the way to a 1994 ifa World Cup qualifier against Senegal in Dakar are buried.
The free-spending Mabvuku side recently engaged in a pre-season training camp in neighbouring Zambia ahead of the start of the local league season.
On 27 April 1993, a Zambian Air Force aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after take-off from Libreville, Gabon. The flight was carrying most of the Zambia national football team. All passengers and five crew members were killed.
The players were all laid to rest at the site that was visited by Scottland FC players and members of their technical team.
At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, their 4-0 victory over Italy included a hat-trick from Kalusha Bwalya, who won the African Footballer of the Year later that year. They had their eyes on the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations trophy, having finished third in the 1990 edition, and a place at their first World Cup.
All 30 passengers and crew, including 18 players, as well as the national team coach and support staff, died in the accident.
Three players of the Chipolopolo that survived were playing with Uefa clubs, and each made separate travel plans from their clubs in Europe to Senegal.
