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| Emma Okwi hugs Micho ater scoring for Uganda in a recent match. He scored a brace to propel the Cranes to a win. Photo by Michael Nsubuga |
By Swalley Kenyi
International friendly
Botswana 1 Uganda 3
World Cup qualifier
Senegal v Uganda (Sept 7)
EMMA Okwi’s brace and another goal by Frank Kalanda ensured Uganda Cranes tamed the Botswana 3-1 in Gaborone on Saturday.
The away win can best be described as a perfect
morale booster for the Cranes, who face Senegal in 2014 World Cup
qualifier match in Marrakech, Morocco on September 7.
And for the Cranes coach Micho Sredejovic, who has
continued to get results since assuming the job in May, the win will
help to boost the confidence of his charges.
“Many people do not give us a chance but our chance
is football. We have it in front of us. If we go out there we shall get
the opportunity because impossible is nothing,” Micho said before the
team departed from Kampala.
And the outcome of that advice from Micho to his
players has been the humbling of the Zebras of Botswana that the Cranes
had not beaten in their last two meetings.
The Cranes must now beat the Lions of Teranga in
their make-or-break qualifier to guarantee progress to the final round
of qualification which will decide who eventually makes it to the 2014
Brazil World Cup.
Apart from the local-based Cranes’ 1-0 win in the
Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifiers against Tanzania last
month, the team’s only two other recent away wins were in 2011 (against
Guinea Bissau) and 2000 (against Malawi).
They will connect to Istanbul, Turkey where they are expected to camp for three days then head to Morocco on Thursday.
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