Uganda Cranes coach cuts short holiday

Oct 26, 2010

CRANES coach Robert Williamson has been forced to cut-short his holiday in Scotland to prepare the national team for a friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago and the forthcoming CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup.

By Swalley Kenyi

CRANES coach Robert Williamson has been forced to cut-short his holiday in Scotland to prepare the national team for a friendly match against Trinidad and Tobago and the forthcoming CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup.

Uganda is expected to play an international friendly against Trinidad and Tobago on November 17 in Kampala before embarking on their defence of the Senior Challenge Cup 10 days later.

Williamson had gone on holiday for an unspecified time and FUFA technical director Asuman Lubowa earlier on said that he would return at least a week before the Challenge Cup.

A source in the federation however said yesterday that the coach was forced to return. Despite FIFA designating November 17 for the friendly, Lubowa said yesterday that: “the guys (Trinidad and Tobago) are not communicating. I can’t know weather they are coming or not.”

FUFA chief executive Edgar Watson, who wrote to Trinidad and Tobago football federation in July requesting for the friendly said that he would confirm later today if the friendly will go ahead.

Trinidad and Tobago are still considered the best team in the Caribbean but are rated 106th in the October FIFA ranking. Uganda is ranked 63rd.

Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2006 but finished at the bottom of the CONCACAF qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup.

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