{"id":11424,"date":"2021-06-01T17:09:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=11424"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:02:15","slug":"kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job","title":{"rendered":"Kajoba walks out on Vipers to keep Cranes job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Vipers are in a mad rush to find a new head coach after Fred Kajoba resigned, yesterday, following friction with management over his involvement with the national team.<\/p>\n<p>The former UPDF and Bright Stars coach informed the club he joined in January 2020 of his decision after Monday morning\u2019s training session.\u201cI have resigned from the Vipers job,\u201d Kajoba confirmed when contacted.<\/p>\n<p>The point of divergence arose from Kajoba\u2019s involvement with the Uganda Cranes where he has been the goalkeeping coach for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I returned from the Cranes training on Monday morning, [Vipers technical director] Charles Masembe asked me to choose between the club and national team. I decided to stay with the Cranes,\u201d Kajoba said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cranes are preparing for a friendly away in South Africa next week. Since they train in the morning, Kajoba had shifted the Vipers\u2019 sessions to the afternoon. But this is reported to have upset authorities at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Kajoba leaves at a critical stage of the season with the club in pursuit of a league and cup double. They face SC Villa in the Stanbic Uganda Cup quarterfinal second leg tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The four-time league champions lie third in the StarTimes Uganda Premier League on 56 points, two behind leaders Express.<\/p>\n<p>Kajoba won the league with Vipers last season \u2013 although the season was ended prematurely with five games to play due to the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Many local coaches, including Cranes interim coach Abdallah Mubiru, have always faced questions about their ability to balance between national team and club engagements.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past decade, Kajoba has been able to cope with the two jobs. However, none of his previous teams competes at the level of Vipers.He is thankful for the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p><b>ikigongo@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Vipers are in a mad rush to find a new head coach after Fred Kajoba resigned, yesterday, following friction with management over his involvement with the national team. The former UPDF and Bright Stars coach informed the club he joined in January 2020 of his decision after Monday morning\u2019s training session.\u201cI have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-11424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kajoba walks out on Vipers to keep Cranes job - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vipers are in a mad rush to find a new head coach after Fred Kajoba resigned, yesterday, following friction with managem ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kajoba walks out on Vipers to keep Cranes job\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Vipers are in a mad rush to find a new head coach after Fred Kajoba resigned, yesterday, following friction with managem ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-01T17:09:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60b659ee03cdc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kajoba walks out on Vipers to keep Cranes job\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-01T17:09:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job\"},\"wordCount\":307,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2021\/06\/img-60b659ee03cdc.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/kajoba-walks-out-on-vipers-to-keep-cranes-job\",\"name\":\"Kajoba walks out on Vipers to keep Cranes job - 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