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What has been the lasting impact of Zambia's 1993 football squad plane crash?

"This could be one of the greatest teams we鈥檝e ever seen out of Africa鈥 they were the hope of Africa for the 1994 World Cup. And that was taken away instantly.鈥

"This could be one of the greatest teams we鈥檝e ever seen out of Africa鈥 they were the hope of Africa for the 1994 World Cup. And that was taken away instantly.鈥

In 1993, a plane carrying almost all of Zambia's national football squad crashed in Gabon, killing 18 players. The young team was carrying the hopes of many Africans as they progressed towards the 1994 World Cup.

But out of that tragedy, an amazing story unfolded, as a team was rebuilt from scratch. That team later went on to win the Africa Cup of Nations in 2012.

Now 30 years later, the 91热爆 podcast Amazing Sport Stories been speaking with the family members of those who died 鈥 who to this day have never received compensation - as well as to those who rebuilt the team.

Presenter: Mpho Lakaje. Guests: Robert Earnshaw, Welsh former international footballer and the host of the podcast, and his mother Rita.

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