Sunday: Zimbabwe Vs Djibouti, Zanzibar Vs Burundi
Monday: Sudan Vs Ethiopia (2:00pm), Somali Vs Uganda (4:00pm),
Kenya Vs Malawi (4:00pm)
The Uganda Cranes may have to play their next game in the ongoing Cecafa Tusker Senior Challenge Cup here in Dar es Salaam without the services of their creative mid fielder Tonny Mawejje who is down with malaria.
Striker Hamis ‘Diego’ Kiiza is also just recovering from similar illness and still looks unfit to be included on the starting lineup tomorrow. The leader of the Ugandan delegation in Tanzania Livingstone Kyambadde confirmed to www.fufa.co.ug this Sunday morning that the IBV FC (Serbia) player did not even train with the rest of the team this morning.
Kyambadde was at JB Belmont, a four star Hotel to attend the pre-match meeting with Cecafa officials. He was in company of Kiiza who also missed the training and still struggles to recover his fitness. “The doctor is doing his part but chances are high that we may miss both players in our next game” said Kyambadde who is also the FUFA Vice president in charge of technical matters.
Uganda plays Somalia in their next game this Monday from an artificial turf at Chamazi in Temehe district. The stadium owned by Azam FC is located about 20Kms out of Dar es Salaam city. The team will have to leave their residence around 1:00pm under police escorts in order to beat the high traffic jam along the route. Kick off time is 4:00pm.
Uganda beat Zanzibar 2-1 in their opening game on Friday.
Tanzanian Prime minister H.E Mizengo Pinda was the chief guest at the official opening of this year’s challenge cup yesterday. Meanwhile the Zimbabwe National team has not yet arrived in Dar es Salaam and was by press time still reported to be in Nairobi. Cecafa General Secretary Nicholas Musonye said the group had had difficulties in flight connections but were expected this afternoon. Zimbabwe plays Djibouti this Sunday at 2:00pm.
