Browsing Month October, 2003
Return of the ‘stars’
By Online Reporter at October 25, 2003 | 3:14 pm | 0 Comment
By Moses Mugalu & Muhammad M. Dhakaba The club executive has moved in to calm worries and dismiss speculation that Manager Sredojevic Micho Milutin has been sacked following his prolonged holiday. Secretary Luyimbazi Mugalu refuted talk that change is imminent at Villa Park. Some officials had been quoted as saying that they were 'just giving it time' before more...
The Uganda Kobs have to win
By Online Reporter at October 25, 2003 | 3:06 pm | 0 Comment
FUFA CORNER CORNER ---- With Hassan Badru Zziwa The Uganda Kobs play the match of their life tonight at Nakivubo Stadium; the national junior team must beat Angola in the round-robin Group `C' match. The Kobs must win to keep alive our hopes of qualifying for the 2004 Olympic qualifier in Athens, Greece. This is the first match for The Kobs whose other group more...
U-23s looking to put Angola record straight
By Online Reporter at October 25, 2003 | 2:22 pm | 0 Comment
By Yasser Kalyango For Kobs' coaches Charles Namakoola and Jackson Mayanja, as well as for the fans, there will be nothing but revenge today as the team steps out against an Angola side that beat Uganda home and away in the Sydney 2000 Olympic campaign. The Kobs have been in camp for just a week, and will have to work extra hard if they are to accomplish the more...
Pros worthy: Sekajja, Tenywa say no to Watson’s quitting
By Online Reporter at October 13, 2003 | 3:44 pm | 0 Comment
By Andrew J. Oryada & Douglas D. Bugingo The defensive tightness of professionals Suleiman Tenywa and Ibrahim Sekajja last Saturday showed that it's worthwhile after all to call foreign based players. The duo playing together after six years showed a lot of composure, urgency and seriousness in the 3-0 victory over Mauritius in the 2006 Africa Nations Cup/World more...
Cranes wipe our tears
By Online Reporter at October 13, 2003 | 3:43 pm | 0 Comment
FROM THE DUG OUT With Allan Ssekamatte Mauritius' national football team tactician Akbar Patel got his tactics for Saturday's African Nations Cup/ World Cup qualifier desperately wrong. I have not seen a team adopt such a negative approach to a football game in many years. In the end, Uganda's 3-0 victory was flattering, but not entirely undeserved. There was no way more...
Cranes fly
By Online Reporter at October 12, 2003 | 3:45 pm | 0 Comment
By Andrew Jackson Oryada Uganda……. 3 Mauritius….. 0 It was a perfect post 41st Independence Aniversary present for Ugandans when the Cranes beat Mauritius 3-0 last evening at Nakivubo Stadium in a 2006 Africa Nations/World Cup qualifier. The Cranes urgently needed to change their attitude after the Rwanda ‘circus’ when they lost 1-0, and they did exactly more...
Cranes have point to prove
By Online Reporter at October 11, 2003 | 3:46 pm | 0 Comment
By Yasser Kalyango abd Hussein Bogere Players believe they can do it... The Uganda Cranes will today be looking forward to 'burying ghosts' when they face Mauritius in a 2006 Nations Cup/World Cup qualifier at Nakivubo. June 7 will always be remembered as an estimated 60,000 Ugandans left Namboole in tears after the Cranes' loss to Rwanda. Coach Leo Adraa more...
A Tale of two coaches
By Online Reporter at October 11, 2003 | 3:45 pm | 0 Comment
By Fredrick Musisi Kiyingi Uganda's coach Leo Adraa and his counterpart on the opposite side Akbar Patel of Mauritius are expected to be busy men on their seats when the two sides face-off. Uganda and Mauritius will be facing-off for the fourth time in their history, although the Islanders are yet to record a win. The Mauritius team has scored only two goals more...
Go, go Cranes
By Online Reporter at October 11, 2003 | 3:43 pm | 0 Comment
By Andrew Jackson Oryada & Muhammad M. Dhakaba Uganda Vs Mauritius: Players out to erase bad Rwanda memories The last time the Cranes were at home was a disaster, as they fell 1-0 to Rwanda in a game marred by 'juju' claims and running battles. Kick-off is 4.30pm and the home side needs to kick start with goals to win back the support and sympathy of the more...
‘Cranes will win’
By Online Reporter at October 10, 2003 | 3:46 pm | 0 Comment
By Muhammad M. Dhakaba & Yasser Kalyango Cranes’ Argentine based professional Ibrahim Ssekaja, has promised victory against Mauritius tomorrow at Nakivubo Stadium in a 2006 Africa Nations Cup/World Cup qualifying tie. “I will lead the team to victory. I have never lost any home game with the Cranes since I joined the paid ranks,” said Sekajja after more...
