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Zambians have been celebrating their side's victory on penalties against Ivory Coast in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations.
After 14 kicks were converted, Kolo Toure and Gervinho failed to find the target for the Elephants as Zambia's Rainford Kalaba also blazed over. But Stoppila Sunzu found the top corner to complete an amazing 8-7 victory in a penalty shoot out.
Zambia's first African title came, poignantly, in Libreville just a few kilometres from where almost the entire Zambian team was killed in a plane crash 19 years ago off the coast of the Gabon capital.
In a game of drama and high emotion, the most significant moment was perhaps when Kalusha Bwalya, a member of the tragic team who was not on the ill-fated aircraft in 1993 and is now Zambia's football federation president, lifted the Cup of Nations trophy up in one hand on the pitch, almost defiantly.
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