Micho Drives Intense Chipolopolo Online Training Plan
Recently appointed Chipolopolo coach Milutin Sredojevic, Micho, is overseeing an online training programme with team players in a bid to maintain fitness and keep the side on track during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Using Facebook Micho, Dusan Istojanovic, Oswald Mutapa, goalkeeper coach Miroslav Itojinic and Team Manager Desmond M’ngawa are rolling out a strategic plan using video footage.
The team have set out their approach to training for the coming weeks on the Football Association of Zambia Facebook page.
According to FAZ, Micho and his bench have designed a daily work-out program that seeks to break the barriers created by the covid-19 virus.
“The technical bench has circulated an intense four step work-out schedule that is broken into routines for Monday, Wednesday and Friday with another drill laid out for Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday,” FAZ explained.
“Players are expected to follow a training regime technologically packaged in video format that prescribes what they have to do in the confines of their homes during the isolation period.
Instructions are wedded to video footage specially designed by the technical bench that has also been hard at work in the background.”
In addition, the team is using footage from past training sessions and matches to help players identify areas for focus and improvement during the current break.
“The technical bench is keeping track with the players through various media like Whatsupp, video calls, Facebook and Skype,” FAZ explains.
“Prior to the suspension of all football activities through CAF and FAZ communiques Micho had been building momentum for the previously scheduled back-to-back Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers against Botswana on March 26 and 29 with the CHAN tournament that had been pencilled for April 4-25.
The technical bench has gone across the country checking out local players starting from a pool of 131 that was reduced to 72 before trimming it further to 35.”
According to the post, “Micho was on the verge of naming an even leaner squad with foreign based players after having tested his charges in a 1-0 home win against Malawi in an international friendly match that saw Zambia show flashes of resurrection from the football doldrums.”
“Despite the Covid-19 chaos that has bedevilled the game, Micho has kept his head above waters mapping out a strategic plan that has kept the Chipolopolo brand afloat in the dark period.
The program involves theoretical awareness, distance fitness coaching, distance technical coaching and distance video tactical coaching.”
