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Football proletariat’ brave Serbia’s crumbling, violent stadiums Belgrade, Serbia | AFP | Khalid Aucho and Takuto Yasuoka are two of hundreds of footballers from Africa, Asia and South America whose dream of stardom has brought them to Eastern Europe. Aucho, a 23-year-old from Uganda who has already tried Scotland, and …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | Kenya stretched an unbeaten run to nine matches by drawing 1-1 at home against Uganda on Thursday. Michael Olunga gave the “Harambee Stars” a 35th-minute lead in a friendly at Kenyatta Stadium in eastern town Machakos. Kenya retained the lead against their long-time east African …

  Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Zambia-based trio Jesse Were, David Owino and Anthony Okumu have been called up to the Kenyan squad for upcoming international friendlies against Uganda and DR Congo. Were and Owino were on target for Zesco United when they scored two vital second-half goals against Burundian …

Cranes coach Milutin Sredojevic ‘Micho’ has recalled striker Emmanuel Okwi as Uganda starts the post-Nations Cup era with an international friendly against Kenya in Nairobi on Thursday. Omitted from this friendly are South African based Denis Onyango, Geoffrey Massa and Belgium-based Farouk Miya as Micho named only six foreign based players. …

The Uganda national team – Cranes played its last game against Mali at the African Cup of Nations final in Gabon on Jan.25. But, this game had no consequence to the cranes as the team had already been beaten out of the competition first by Ghana and then Egypt both …

Uganda Cranes are back home after their historic return to the high table of African football – The African Cup of Nations finals. Uganda played three games, losing two and drawing their final game against Mali. They flew out of Gabon Thursday via Addis Ababa and arrived Entebbe Airport Friday …

FT: Mali 1 (Bissouma 73) Uganda 1 (Miya 70) ; Egypt 1 (Salah 11) Ghana 0 QUARTERS: Senegal vs Cameroon;  Burkina Faso vs Tunisia ; Morocco vs Egypt;  DR Congo vs Ghana Africa Cup of Nations Group D Egypt         3 2 1 0 2 0 7 …

Cranes will hope to wind up their return to the high table of African football with a goal, and win, when they take on Mali today. “We came here to play three Cup finals — the first we lost on a penalty to Ghana and the second we lost in the last …

Port-Gentil, Gabon | AFP |  Uganda coach Milutin Sredojevic admitted the way in which his side were knocked out of the Africa Cup of Nations with a last-gasp defeat to Egypt on Saturday was a crushing blow. “We tried our best but unfortunately it was not enough,” said “Micho” after …

FT: Uganda 0 Egypt 1 Mali 0 Ghana 1 Port-Gentil, Gabon | AFP | Abdallah El Said scored with a minute left as Egypt snatched a 1-0 win over Uganda on Saturday that leaves them on the verge of the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals and eliminated their opponents. The substitute lashed in …