Bafana have met Botswana in each of the last four Cosafa Cup competitions since the Southern African championship became a regular feature on the football calendar again.
Coach Stuart Baxter announced on Thursday that his squad for the competition would be missing most of his top stars‚ and instead will be a mixture of youngsters and those on the fringes of Africa Cup of Nations finals reckoning.
Botswana have won just two of their last nine internationals‚ which saw the axing of veteran coach David Bright‚ with their last fixture a 2-0 win over Seychelles in an African Nations Championship qualifier last month. Just what kind of a side the Warriors will bring is also unknown after it was revealed on Thursday that they had set up a friendly in Nigeria on June 8‚ the same day as the Cosafa Cup final.
Zambia must also wait to see their quarterfinal opponents‚ with the winner of Group B taking up that slot – Mozambique‚ Namibia‚ Malawi or Seychelles.
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