Cranes to play world cup sides
Mar 02, 2010
UGANDA’S 2012 Nations Cup build-up will after today’s friendly with Tanzania shift to north and west Africa.
By James Bakama and Fred Kaweesi
UGANDA’S 2012 Nations Cup build-up will after today’s friendly with Tanzania shift to north and west Africa.
“I now hunting for north and west African teams. Build-ups with World Cup bound Algeria, Ivory Coast, Nigeria or Egypt would be very good,†said FUFA president Lawrence Mulindwa.
Mulindwa said top on FUFA’s qualification agenda will be improving Uganda’s away record. “That’s exactly why most of these friendlies will be away,†he explained.
Uganda is grouped with Angola, Kenya and Guinea Bissau in qualifiers for the 2012 Nations Cup finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Uganda has over the past two World Cup and Africa nations Cup qualifier managed to build a perfect home record -- but their away form has been pathetic. The Cranes have twice been edged out on goal difference.
Uganda will, besides these build-ups, also have its home-based players fine tuning for the African Nations Championships (CHAN). Uganda kicks-off its campaign with an away date against Burundi in Bujumbura on March 13.
Meanwhile, Tony Odur and Anthony Bongole will strive to redeem their status as two of Uganda’s treasured strikers when the Cranes confront Tanzania today in Mwanza.
The two forwards are among the 18-man team that stepped foot in Tanzania yesterday hoping to resurrect their international careers that are seemingly on their deathbed.
Odur and Bongole had cemented their places in the Cranes team but faded in subsequent years. They dropped behind Geoffrey Massa, Caesar Okhuti and later Brian Umony.
* Former Cranes coordinator Henry Buyego passed away yesterday at the Heart Institute in Mulago Hospital, where he had been admitted for some days. Buyego will be laid to rest today at Kisigula near Mutundwe, in Kampala, at 4:00pm.
UGANDA’S 2012 Nations Cup build-up will after today’s friendly with Tanzania shift to north and west Africa.
“I now hunting for north and west African teams. Build-ups with World Cup bound Algeria, Ivory Coast, Nigeria or Egypt would be very good,†said FUFA president Lawrence Mulindwa.
Mulindwa said top on FUFA’s qualification agenda will be improving Uganda’s away record. “That’s exactly why most of these friendlies will be away,†he explained.
Uganda is grouped with Angola, Kenya and Guinea Bissau in qualifiers for the 2012 Nations Cup finals in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.
Uganda has over the past two World Cup and Africa nations Cup qualifier managed to build a perfect home record -- but their away form has been pathetic. The Cranes have twice been edged out on goal difference.
Uganda will, besides these build-ups, also have its home-based players fine tuning for the African Nations Championships (CHAN). Uganda kicks-off its campaign with an away date against Burundi in Bujumbura on March 13.
Meanwhile, Tony Odur and Anthony Bongole will strive to redeem their status as two of Uganda’s treasured strikers when the Cranes confront Tanzania today in Mwanza.
The two forwards are among the 18-man team that stepped foot in Tanzania yesterday hoping to resurrect their international careers that are seemingly on their deathbed.
Odur and Bongole had cemented their places in the Cranes team but faded in subsequent years. They dropped behind Geoffrey Massa, Caesar Okhuti and later Brian Umony.
* Former Cranes coordinator Henry Buyego passed away yesterday at the Heart Institute in Mulago Hospital, where he had been admitted for some days. Buyego will be laid to rest today at Kisigula near Mutundwe, in Kampala, at 4:00pm.