Cranes storm Castle final

Oct 23, 2002

NATIONAL Coach Paul Hasule praised his inexperienced defence for their mean performance yesterday that earned Cranes a place in the Castle Cup final

By Norman Katende
In Arusha

Tanzania 0 Uganda 2
Kenya 1 (5) South Africa 1 (3)

NATIONAL Coach Paul Hasule praised his inexperienced defence for their mean performance yesterday that earned Cranes a place in the Castle Cup final.
“They played very well. Defence was the best department and the combination was good,” said Hasule,
Cranes’ inexperienced defence led by the ever improving goalkeeper Abdul Salim, subdued veteran Edibily Lunyamila’s threat and had an answer for whatever was thrown at them at the Sheikh Amri Abed stadium. Earlier, Kenya ejected South Africa, and play Uganda in the final on Saturday.
A typical ambitious Alex Isabirye 30-yard cracker just after 30 minutes, put Uganda in the lead. Yusuf Kinene secured the win late in the game as Tanzania tried every trick in the book to unlock the Uganda defence to no avail.
Sam Mubiru, David Yiga, Abubaker Tabula and captain Philip Obwiny were in uncompromising mood.
Goal heroes Isabirye and Kinene, were last minute inclusions to the national team and only arrived here on Tuesday.
“I was tired but I promise to play well in the final,” said the 21-year-old Isabirye.
Taifa Stars second half substitute Thomas Mashala raged havoc at the Cranes goal but the target was elusive.

r The battle for which African country becomes the first ever to host the World Cup finals began yesterday when FIFA opened bidding for 2010.
Under FIFA’s new rules, the hosting of football’s most glittering prize, will be on a rotation basis of continents, starting with Africa for 2010.
However the executive board have not yet accepted how rotation will fully work, apart from allowing Africa to be the first continent in the rotation system.

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});