Browsing Month June, 2003
Ugandans can go Pro, says Kuffour
By Online Reporter at June 26, 2003 | 3:40 pm | 0 Comment
By Andrew Jackson Oryada - In Accra Bayern Munich's dependable stopper and Ghanaian international, Samuel Osei Kuffour, has said Uganda has the potential to have many players in the paid ranks. Kuffour, back playing for his nation after a year out in the cold, told The Monitor after the 1-1 draw with the Cranes last Sunday at the Kumasi Stadium, that the Ugandan more...
Cranes suffer on military plane
By Online Reporter at June 25, 2003 | 3:38 pm | 0 Comment
By Andrew Jackson Oryada In Kumasi, Ghana The talk yesterday morning at the Georgia Hotel in Kumasi where Cranes are residing, was the team's bad experience on a military plane from Accra to Kumasi. Fufa officials Mr Stanley Kinene and Mr John Baptist Ssemanobe, refused to travel by road from Accra to Kumasi as the journey is over the Confederation of African more...
Fufa searches for new coach
By Online Reporter at June 24, 2003 | 3:39 pm | 0 Comment
By Nsobya Ssebaggala The Federation of Uganda Football Associations (Fufa) Technical Committee is to search for a new head coach for the Cranes. Argentine tactician Pablo Pedro Pasculli signed a one and a half-month contract worth $ 10,000 with Fufa to guide the Cranes to the 2004 African Nations Cup finals. But he has kept his bosses guessing at his whereabouts since more...
3 hour nightmare
By Online Reporter at June 9, 2003 | 3:42 pm | 0 Comment
By Andrew Jackson Oryada Uganda 0 Rwanda 1 The Uganda Cranes' dreams of making it to Tunisia 2004 were last evening severely dented when the Amavubi of Rwanda emerged 1-0 victors in a highly dramatic and bizarre encounter in which 90 minutes were played over 3 hours. It was a terrible anticlimax to an occasion which had seen fans fill Namboole for the first time more...
Cranes tie for Kumasi
By Online Reporter at June 9, 2003 | 3:41 pm | 0 Comment
By Allan Ssekamatte The Uganda Cranes play the crucial group 13 Africa Nations Cup qualifier against Ghana's Black Stars in Kumasi on Sunday, 22 June 2003. The stadium in the capital Accra is undergoing restructuring following the death of more than 100 fans during the 9 May 2001 league clash between local rivals Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko. A government more...
What a tragic comedy
By Online Reporter at June 9, 2003 | 3:41 pm | 0 Comment
By Allan Ssekamatte Did you ever ask yourself why the 1994 genocide took place in Rwanda? Did you ever think Rwanda could beat the Cranes on our own turf ? Have you ever seen a referee as incompetent as Alemu Gizate, the Ethiopian who handled the Cranes versus Amavubi game on Saturday? Do you believe in Juju? Have you ever wondered how a moron like Idi Amin became more...
‘Juju or not, a record Shs 247m was collected
By Online Reporter at June 9, 2003 | 3:41 pm | 0 Comment
By Fredrick Musisi Kiyingi History was made on Saturday when over 47,000 people paid close to Shs 247million to watch Uganda Cranes go down 1-0 to Amavubi of Rwanda at Namboole. This is the single highest gate collection of any football match ever in any Ugandan stadium. Before the Cranes-Rwanda match, the highest collected at Namboole was around Shs 80m during the more...
The gods must be crazy
By Online Reporter at June 9, 2003 | 3:38 pm | 0 Comment
By Daniel K. Kalinaki Football kicked us in the teeth on Saturday night when Uganda lost 0-1 to Rwanda in an African Cup of Nations Qualifier at Namboole Stadium. And it was the manner of the defeat, and not necessarily the identity of the executioner that brought disbelief to the 40,000 fans and agony to 23 million Ugandans. What should have been a football more...
Lutaya resigns
By Online Reporter at June 9, 2003 | 3:37 pm | 0 Comment
By Hassan Badru Zziwa National Council of Sports General Secretary Abbey Lutaya has finally resigned. According to sources at Lugogo, Lutaya's resignation letter was accepted on Friday (6 June), by the council's Finance and Administration Committee headed by the NCS Chairman Wilson Tumwine. "As I intimated to you, mounting pressure has adversely affected my more...
A Cranes must-win
By Online Reporter at June 7, 2003 | 3:37 pm | 0 Comment
By Andrew Jackson Oryada Off the pitch, the atmosphere between the two nations has been tense on the political front, but today's 2004 Africa Nations Cup qualifying 'war' between perennial arch-rivals Uganda and Rwanda is likely to be hotter. Ethiopian officials Alemu Gizate, Haddif Mebratu and Lema Mesfin will get matters underway at 4:30pm. Over 200 Rwandan fans are more...
