Okagbue eye for operation

By Peter Ekarot NATIONAL soccer team coach Harrison Okagbue will next month take a six-week leave in his native Nigeria to undergo an eye operation. The bespectacled Okagbue told The New Vision yesterday that he will leave Uganda January 14, the day after the Cranes face Senegal in an Africa Nations Cup qualifier. "I have an eye problem that needs operation," Okagbue said. "Thereafter I will recuperate at my residence in Enugu and return in the first week of March to prepare the Cranes for the return leg against Senegal away." Cranes are expected to start training today in Jinja to prepare for the Senegal game. The Nigerian said his assistant Leo Adraa would take charge of Cranes during their tour trip of Saudi Arabia in February. Meanwhile, national football technical director Guenter Zittel left Uganda yesterday for Christmas holidays in Germany and returns on January 10. Ends