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CECAFA Women’s U20 Championship: Matchday 1 Preview

CECAFA Women’s U20 Championship 2021
Matchday 1
Saturday, 30th October 2021
Eritrea vs Tanzania – 10:30AM
Djibouti vs Ethiopia – 1:30PM
Burundi vs Uganda – 4:00PM

The CECAFA Women’s U20 Championship will get underway on Saturday, 30th October 2021 at FUFA Technical Centre, Njeru.

Six teams confirmed participation for the inaugural edition with hosts Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania, Eritrea, Djibouti and Tanzania all ready to compete.

Eritrea and Tanzania will get the Championship underway with the first game, starting at 10:30am.

Bakari Shime, the head coach of the Tanzania U20 Women’s National Team believes his charges are ready for the tournament and their target is to go all the way and clinch it.

Tanzania U20 Women’s National Team head coach Bakari Shime.

“We have had enough preparations for this tournament and we here with the ultimate target of winning the title.” He said.

Shime also indicates that the tournament will be a good precursor for them ahead of the FIFA U20 Women’s World Cup Qualifier games against Burundi in December.

His counterpart, Ibrahim Jamal is hopeful of a good show at the tournament and stresses that this is an opportunity for the players to earn more experience.

Eritrea head coach Ibrahim Jamal.

“This is a good platform for the team because we share be facing very good teams. I believe there is a lot to learn from this Championship and definitely we shall be aiming to having good results.”

Uganda, the host nation come into the Championship as one of the favourites and coach Ayub Khalifa Kiyingi is aware of the demands but he insists they will take on game at a time.

Uganda U20 Women’s National Team head coach Ayub Khalifa Kiyingi.

“We have a winning mentality and definitely we would want to lift the Championship at home but for now, we have to first get our first opponent Burundi out of the way and then look at the rest of the games.” He stated.

The Championship will be played in a round robin format. The team with most points after Matchday five will be declared Champions.

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