Khama Billiat speaks on Warriors' overall performance at AFCON 2017, gives advice for the future

Speaking to The Herald, Warriors star midfielder, Khama Billiat said that the team let the nation down at the 2017 AFCON finals. He also gave advice to his fellow teammates.

Said Billiat:

It is very disappointing and we need to be very honest with ourselves that we have let the nation down. But it is part of football, we win some and lose some. We need to be honest with ourselves, go back and take the positives and stay focused at our clubs so that we can be called again.

Billiat also admitted that the team’s biggest problem at the tournament was conceding early goals:

That has been the biggest problem for us through out the tournament. We conceded goals in the first 15 minutes. We started playing our normal game after that, but playing to try and come back into the game is always very difficult. It requires double the effort. It is one of those things we recognised contributed to us being out of the tournament.

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He said the Warriors could still make a better impression in the future.

Now we need to be focused on the future because it takes a lot more than just speaking about it. We need to improve individually. I believe that if we had won that game against Algeria, we could have given ourselves confidence and today we could have been talking a different story. But it is all in the past now and we have to go back and plan for the future. If I was to play at the tournament again, I would like us to win the first game and not be worried going into the next game.We need to be back again here at AFCON and we need to come back stronger.

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