Daily Monitor
Saturday May 08 2021
Summary
Mr Moses Banturaki says: Cecafa can be the lab from which we test new players and launch new style
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Last week, the Fufa Executive approved that our U-20 team, the Hippos, represent Uganda at this years’ Cecafa tournament to be held in Ethiopia. This is at once interesting and visionary.
But the obvious question that follows will be why are we subjecting those talented boys to the disgrace of a tournament with one foot in the grave?
For a long time now Cecafa has demonstrated that it is a tournament lacking in imagination. Each year we hawk it around the region to disinterested hosts because it bears no meaningful developments.
This year’s Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup will be for players falling in the U23 Category. Uganda will field predominantly the U20 team that reached the final of the Africa Cup U20 tournament in Mauritania. The decision to have the U23 players for this tournament was reached during the Cecafa Exco meeting held on 11th March 2021 at Sofitel Hotel, Morocco.
The Federation further confirmed that there will be no change in the head coach role for the team. Morley Byekwaso, who is currently serving the Ugandan Premier League side Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) FC on an interim basis, will lead the technical bench.
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