URA battle Zambia’s Zanaco in CAF game

Feb 11, 2010

WHILE teamwork is such a significant component for any successful football side, individual contributions at times prove exceptionally precious, particularly in continental football.

By Fred Kaweesi


Orange Champions League
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URA FC v Zanaco

WHILE teamwork is such a significant component for any successful football side, individual contributions at times prove exceptionally precious, particularly in continental football.

Brian Umony summed up the very best of KCC in the CAF champions League in the previous edition.

With due respect to the contributions of then KCC boss George Nsimbe and the rest of the players he assembled in what was a memorable continental campaign for the Lugogo-based club, Umony often made the difference in virtually all of KCC’s fixtures.

Uganda’s current representatives URA FC will need a similar figure, a player with goal-scoring competence that will help them emulate their counterpart’s achievements or even better what they achieved.

Although the tax collectors are clustered with a string of quality, experienced and potential match-winners, it will be imperative that the club’s lead striker Henry Kisekka delivers, starting with today’s fixture against Zambian champions Zanaco at Mandela national stadium, Namboole.

URA boss Moses Basena has built his team on a system requiring its lone centre-forward to be up for the fight, to be working the channels, out-muscling defenders and generally putting himself about.

When that doesn’t happen, the whole project breaks down, with the team robbed of an attacking focal point.

To counter this, Basena will opt for a three-man attack, with Augustine Nsumba and Kenneth Igama stationed as deceptive strikers to allow Kisekka room to operate freely in the box.

If URA hand strikers Kisekka, Igama and Nsumba better support, by closing spaces in the hosts’ midfield and harrying them into errors, it will allow the three to work their magic.

Basena has asked his charges to compress the game, keep the tempo as high as possible, in the belief that it will expose their opponents’ frailties at the back.

But for URA to earn a momentous win, the team will definitely have to play out of their skins. And they can - if only they can stop the visitors scoring.

The key to success will be keeping a clean sheet though with the rampaging runs of Thomas Nyirenda and pace of Henry ‘Thierry’ Banda to contend with, it will be a massive task.

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