Injury rules Nakachwa out of U-17 Women World Cup qualifiers

The national U-17 team will be without Stella Musubika and Kevin Nakachwa when they head to Dar es Salaam to take on Tanzania on Sunday in the 2020 FIFA U17 Women World Cup qualifiers.

"Musubika has failed to recover in time and will not be part of us. Nakachwa too will not make it. This has left a huge vacuum in our defence but we are trying our level best to fill it with the available players," the team head coach Ayub Khalifah confirmed.

The team that has been camping for the past two weeks in Kawempe in preparation for the engagements is expected to depart on Friday.

The team's last outing in the qualifiers saw them dump Ethiopia 5-1 on aggregate in the preliminary round. They now face a sharpshooting Tanzania who eliminated Burundi 6-1 in the first round first leg.

Uganda, however, goes into the Tanzania fixture confidently, boasting of prolific scorer Juliet Nalukenge in their ranks.

Nalukenge scored four vital goals last month, including one against the Tanzanian U-20 side that bundled out Uganda in the U-20 World Cup qualifiers.

Nalukenge will, therefore, be looking for sweet revenge when she clashes with the Tanzanians at a different level though. The winners will face either Cameroon or Sao Tome to qualify for the U-17 Women World Cup in November in India.