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Andy Mwesigwa cries for Bobby

He is gone but will still be remembered and missed. Uganda Cranes skipper Andrew Mwesigwa says he wishes sacked Cranes Coach Bobby Williamson the best of luck in his post Cranes career. This is after the Federation of Uganda Football Association decided to part ways with the Scot Yesterday. The Kazakhstan-based FC Ordabasy defender says as players they have to accept the decision of the federation but will greatly miss their coach. Mwesigwa says the team will always remember Bobby for the CECAFA trophies and the attempts he has always made to let Uganda qualify but narrowly missing out. Bobby Williamson is ranked among the most successful coaches the national team has had in history after winning four Cecafa Championships …

Cranes ready for the Lone Stars

Cranes Coach Bobby Williamson is travelling to Monrovia with a confident team. Cranes midfielder Mike Mutyaba believes he is ready for another challenge. Uganda faces the Lone Stars of Liberia in a 2014 World Cup qualifier on Sunday. The TP Mazembe player earned a recall to the national side having been left out of the just ended 2013 Afcon qualifiers due to injury. Mutyaba’s last game in Ugandan colours, then as a second half substitute, was the disappointing goalless draw with Kenya at Namboole in 2011. Uganda must avoid defeat if they are to retain hopes of ever qualifying for the World Cup. The Cranes trail Senegal in second place with two points, with the Lions of Teranga topping Group …

Emma Okwi confident about the Monrovia game

Uganda Cranes striker Emma Okwi is confident the team can play beyond expectation against Liberia. The 2014 world cup qualifier clash is slated for Sunday March 24th in Monrovia, Liberia. Okwi alongside Dan Ssentongo and Geoffrey Massa will be the players responsible for searching for the goals. The Etoile Du Sahel player says he will do his best to score the goals though he knows little about the Lone Star. His recent move from Simba to Etoile Du Sahel in Tunisia is also likely to make a positive contribution to Uganda’s performance in Liberia. The team which entered residential yesterday at Sky Hotel Ntinda, will depart for Liberia on Friday morning. Uganda is second in the group with two points, …

Togo faces Ivory coast in AFCON

Togo and Tottenham Hotspur’s Emmanuel Adebayor tries to settle a score with ex-Chelsea striker Didier Drogba when Togo face Ivory Coast at the sweltering African Nations Cup on Tuesday. Two of Africa’s most successful players have been rivals for years and Adebayor is hoping his Togo side will put Drogba’s Ivory Coast to the sword in their opening Group D. First Chelsea crushed Spurs 5-1 in an FA Cup semifinal at Wembley, subsequently going on to win the final against Liverpool as Drogba became the first man to score in four FA Cup finals. Then in May, Drogba ended his hugely successful career at Chelsea by scoring a late equalizer against Bayern Munich in the Champions League final before converting …

Eritrean players seek refugee status

The 18 Eritrean soccer players who had gone missing since Monday this week have this afternoon showed up at the Disaster Preparedness Ministry seeking for asylum. The players were in the country to take part in the ongoing CECAFA Tusker tournament but later disappeared from their camp under unclear circumstances. Only 7 out of the 25-member Eritrean delegation returned to Asmara yesterday, after the team was eliminated from the tournament. 17 players and one team doctor vanished on Monday leaving behind the head coach and his assistant, the goal keeper trainer, two players and two accompanying officials. The police had engaged private security companies and local leaders in the search for the foot ballers who disappeared from their camp on …