Kampala — FORMER Miracle Centre and SC Villa right full back, Dan Ntale who is also the director of Kampala School of Excellence, a youth academy, has organised a tour to Kampala by former Cameroon Ex- internationals in the second week of December.

In the name of charity to support the Kampala School of excellence, the likes of Patrick Mboma, Ndiefi and others will face a select team of ex-internationals from Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania to be coached by Polly Ouma.

The bulk of the Cameroonians live in France, where they played their professional football in their hey days but will only be too happy to come and please Ugandan fans who supported the Indomitable Lions during previous Africa Cup of Nations and World Cup finals.

In September, a select team of Brazilian ex-internationals was in Kampala for a Christian outreach mission and played two friendly matches against Uganda's ex-internationals coached by Jackson Mayanja.

One wishes it were the Brazilian and Cameroonian national teams that the Uganda Cranes were playing against, not just 45 plus year old retired superstars most of whom are only too happy to have a tour of what they once knew as the "Pearl of Africa."

In countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria , South Africa and others we can easily identify with ...like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Kenya and Sudan, their national teams tour Europe to play international friendlies every year in preparation for key continental CAF competitions.

Because Uganda is one African nation whose only claim to football fame remains the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations exploits where we lost to Ghana in the finals, we consider ourselves privileged to play host to charity matches which involve countries with big football reputations.

Where else would we come face to face with Brazil, Germany or England? And because Uganda will next take part in Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers in 2010 and world cup qualifiers in 2012, we get excited just about any "international" football match as long as it reminds us that we are part of a global football village. So credit must be given to the likes of Dan Ntale, whose resourcefulness is ensuring that at least we've got something to talk about in this dry spell.

While Bobby Williamson is busy with our CECAFA Challenge Cup heroes and FUFA searching everywhere for sh50m to send the boys to Kenya for this year's edition, those of us left at home can reflect on what could have been by sparing sometime to go and admire the faded Cameroonian stars.

It's no more than our meticulous disorganisation deserves. Charity is the most our stars can play for.