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Grace Chingoma Senior Sports Reporter

THE Zimbabwe senior women’s football team, the Mighty Warriors, were handed a fair draw in the 2022 Total Africa Women Cup of Nations qualifiers after they were drawn against Eswatini.

This follows a draw conducted at CAF headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, today.

A record 44 nations entered the competition and were paired according to zonal pots.

Zimbabwe and other southern African region countries were placed in Pot B where there were no shocks as the COSAFA heavyweights, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, avoided each other.

Olympic Games-bound Zambia meet Malawi in the first round while South Africa will face Botswana.

Zimbabwe start at home before traveling to Eswatini for the return match.

Twenty-two winners will proceed to the next round where they face other teams from other regions that were paired against each other.

Ten-time champions Nigeria were drawn against Ghana in their Pot F, in a game which is easily the biggest match from the first round draw.