The CHAN 2023 tournament was initially slated for 10 July to 1 August 2022, but the African Soccer governing body- CAF rescheduled it to January 2023, due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Speaking after joining the camp, Ssekagya said that playing for the Uganda Cranes was his dream, adding that he will work hard to retain his spot on the national team as well as help the team to qualify for the continental showpiece.
Uganda will host this year’s Championship that will take place at FUFA Technical Center in Njeru starting from June 1-11th. Uganda is placed in A alongside Rwanda, Burundi, and Djibouti.
Uganda is expected to have more than 10 sports disciplines at the 2022 Commonwealth Games that will be held in July and August. These include boxing, table tennis, athletics, netball, and rugby sevens, among others.
Vipers entered the return leg of the semi-final with an advantage after winning the first leg 2-1, which was played in Mbarara. The venoms have now progressed to the final with a 6-1 aggregate.
“On Saturday am playing the last game of my career. We shall be playing the Vipers in the league at Kitende and that will be my last competitive game. After I will play two testimonial games, one in September at KCCA ground in Lugogo, and the second one will be in Masaka where my journey started,” Mawejje told URN in a phone interview.
Uganda has been placed in Group A alongside Rwanda, Burundi and Djibouti. Coach George William Lutalo's side will open their campaign with a match against Rwanda on June 1st.
Captain Stella Oyella was NIC’s hero after netting 37 of the goals to guide her side to defend the title they had earlier won in 2019 in an edition hosted in Zanzibar. KCCA put up a spirited fight in the first half of the game but failed to hold onto their performance in the second half.
The search comes when the national netball team, the She Cranes is in preparations for the 2022 Commonwealth games that will kick off in July this year in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The Crested Cranes will have to raise their spirits high to penetrate through the group and storm the knockout stage as they bid to win this year’s edition of the championship on home soil. The crested crane's team entered a residential camp on May 8th, 2022 at the Cranes Paradise Hotel in Kisaasi in preparations for the tournament.
Fred Mugerwa’s side continued to dominate the game with good defence from Shaffie Nalwanja that stopped UPDF’s Agnes Kajumbi’s efforts thus ending the final half with 67-24.
The Uganda Ice Stock inaugural clinic took place at Makerere University, in Kampala between 22nd and 24th October 2021, presided over by Instructors from Kenya led by Tim Ngugi, President of Kenya Ice Stock who took the participants through different sessions to make them acquainted with the game.
First leg games will be played between May 10-12 while return leg encounters will be held between May 17th-19th. The finals will be played on June 11/12 2022 at a venue yet to be confirmed.
