Ayr United star Frankie Musonda sets sights on major tournament glory with Zambia at AFCON 2025 in Morocco

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Frankie Musonda has told how he is setting his sights on Morocco next year after qualifying for another major international tournament.Musonda and his Zambian teammates topped their African Cup of Nations qualifying group in style with wins over the Ivory Coast and Sierra Leone in recent days.The Chipolopolo, bossed by former Chelsea coach Avram Grant, will head to next December's tournament in fine heart after flopping at this year's version when eliminated in the group stage.But Musonda is adamant they can put that right - with victory over the defending champions on Friday giving cause for optimism.

He told the Zambian FA: "The way we've gone about our business, especially after losing the first game of the qualifiers, has been been really good.

The last AFCON was a good experience for all of us but we want to go further in the competition. You can see we've all learned from that and are moving in the right direction. "The country is in a really good place right now.

We've still got players to come back in as well. Tournament football is a different experience and in the games we played last time we were a bit unfortunate at times - we only lost one of the games and didn't play that badly.