By Santos Zefania

Lilongwe, June 11, Mana: The warm heart is now cold as, Malawi National football team, the Flames, faces an immediate exit, where Angola extinguished the flames of fire, having booted them out in the group stages of the Hollywood Bet COSAFA cup, Bloemfontein in South Africa, on Tuesday.

The development has come due to poor run as the Flames doused into cold ice where they collected a single point out of a possible 9 as they finished bottom in group B from 3 games, having drawn once and beaten twice.

In an interview, after the final whistle from Toyota stadium, in Bloemfotein, flames assistant coach Peter Mponda stressed over his teams early exist, saying: "despite teams poor performance, the tournament has helped us to assess players a head of the future campaign, where few more final touches would make this team geared to produce good results.

Commenting on the shambolic performance written on Esau Kanyenda's Website, Nelson Masauli said:

"We don't have quality players as a nation. We need to nurture our talent to compete at a higher level of the game. Most of our players are not physically fit enough to compete with their opponents on 50/50 balls and lack basic knowledge of football. It's not just for coaches alone, but for many stakeholders to improve our games.

Flames and Lesotho were booted out of Group B COSAFA Hollywood Bet, where Namibia and Angola went through to the next round of the tournament.