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Kenya/Djibouti: Cranes Launch Title Campaign Against Minnows Djibouti
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The Nation (Nairobi)
9 December 2007
Posted to the web 10 December 2007
Nairobi
The most successful team in the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup, Uganda, open their campaign on Sunday against minnows Djibouti in a Group "B" tie at the old National Stadium in Dar es Salaam.
Uganda Cranes have won the title a record nine times and are intent on getting into double digits after bringing a squad featuring several of their European based professionals.
They include defender Andy Mwesigwa (IBV, Iceland), midfielder Noah Kasule (Benants, Armenia) and Denmark-based forward Mike Sserumaga. Uganda last won the Challenge Cup in 2002.
The second match of the day in Dar pits Rwanda versus fast rising Eritrea who will fancy taking this match after a sterling showing, by their standards, at the last African Nations Cup qualification campaign. Kenya were on the receiving end of that good run by the horn of Africa nation.
The only team from the Cecafa region to qualify for next year's African Nations Cup finals, Sudan will come under scrutiny when they face Zanzibar in the opening match of Group "C" in Arusha. Sudan's name has been spoken with new respect here in Tanzania after a fine run in the qualifiers and they will expect to keep up their form as they build for the African finals.
Zanzibar Heroes, as Zanzibar are popularly known, will want to put aside the little slight to their self of being put in a public vehicle to travel to Arusha from Dar es Salaam rather than a hired coach, to take on the team tipped as possible winners.
Meanwhile, just what is the name of the Tanzania national football team? Is it Taifa Stars or Kilimanjaro Stars? The right name is confusing foreign journalists in Tanzania.
The man on the street is not helpful with some referring to Taifa Stars as the senior side and Kilimanjaro Stars to the junior side.
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The local Press refers to Kilimanjaro Stars as "Tanzania Bara" wile Taifa Stars is the main side combining players from Tanzania and Zanzibar. But a Cecafa official said that Taifa Stars was the old name of the national team which changed to Kilimanjaro Stars a few years ago. And interestingly, that piece of thinking is shared by some Tanzanian journalists who said the team is now called Kilimanjaro Stars.
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