Zambia Women National Team goalkeeper Hazel Nali has flown back to Turkey to join her club Fatih Vatan Spor Kulubu in pre-season ahead of the 2022/23 football season.
The Copper Queens goalkeeper took a two-week break after coming from the 2022 TotalEnergies Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) where she was part of the team that secured a historic qualification to the FIFA World Cup and minted a WAFCON bronze.
Nali kept three clean sheets out of the five matches that she was involved in, including scoring the decisive spot-kick in the penalty-shootout win over Senegal in the WAFCON quarter-finals in Morocco.
Another Turkey-based Copper Queens midfielder Misozi Zulu is expected back in Hakkari to join her teammates at Hakkarigucu Spur for pre-season.