Uganda: Players Told to Make Afcon Count

20 December 2016

Kampala — The 2017 Nations Cup finalists - Uganda Cranes - started training in earnest for the event they last graced four decades ago, yesterday, with coach Micho Sredojevic delivering a powerful speech emboldened with inspiring undertones.

Players, 27 out of the big squad of 40 that he earlier summoned, and the coaching staff had finished praying - arms connecting on each other's shoulders - when they later stood with the attention only reserved for headmaster at a school parade.

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