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Uganda/Libya: Historic Friendly
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The Monitor (Kampala)
26 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
Yasser Kalyango & Douglas Bugingo
Kampala
Uganda's international friendlies are not normally renown for full-strength Cranes sides. But today's match against Libya at Namboole will be an historic friendly because it is the match that has attracted Austrian-based star Ibrahim Sekagya and a strong South Africa-based contingent led by Footballer of the Year David Obua.
The match sits in Fifa's calendar with a host of build-up games and World Cup qualifiers taking place all over the globe.
Defender Timothy Batabaire and striker Geoffrey Massa will miss the match through injury but coach Laszlo Csaba's main worry is the late arrival of most of the players.
Libya handed Csaba his first defeat as Cranes coach in 2006 in a match notable for its controversy and the German-Hungarian is relishing revenge.
"They did not deserve to beat us. We lost under unclear circumstances but the issue now is to beat them in our own back yard," a confident Csaba said.
Neither Sekagya nor Obua was in Tripoli when Libya edged Cranes 3-2 and Cranes can expect a confidence-rewarding display ahead of the 2010 African/World Cup qualifiers. In 2004, Cranes played out to a goalless draw with the North Africans in Kampala.
Libya's last participation at a major tournament was in 2006 in the Africa Cup of Nations. That is better than Cranes that last qualified in 1978.
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Today
Uganda v Libya
4.30pm, Namboole
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