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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>It was not meant to be like this, but is what it is. Livingston Mbabazi was the man first picked by Micho Sredojevic as the assistant coach of the Uganda Cranes.<\/p>\n

But because of Fufa\u2019s new requirement that national team assistant coaches concentrate fully on that, and not clubs, the Arua Hills manager will now focus on the newly-promoted Premier League side.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt would have been a great chance to work with a great coach like Mbabazi at Cranes but we have been forced to find a coach fully focused and dedicated to the national team,\u2019 Micho told Daily Monitor.<\/p>\n

The Serbian tactician spoke as the Cranes started residential camp in Kampala at the weekend ahead of training trips to Jordan and Ethiopia later this week.<\/p>\n

Uganda will twice face Syria and later Ethiopia as some of the games to prepare for next month\u2019s World Cup qualifying matches against Kenya and Mali.<\/p>\n

But in Moses Basena as Mbabazi\u2019s replacement, Micho has a man who understands him like the back of his palm. The two worked together at SC Villa in the early 2000s, and reunited at the national team toward the end of the Serb\u2019s first stint as Cranes gaffer.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasena is a choice of person that has been with us (the technical team) when we took Uganda to Afcon after 39 years and handled Cranes against Egypt (in the qualifiers after the 51-year-old Serbian had quit in 2017),\u201d Micho said.<\/p>\n

Basena helped Uganda beat Egypt 1-0 in Kampala in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers after Micho\u2019s departure in 2017 although the Cranes still came short overall.Basena would late take coaching stints in Tanzania and Rwanda.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany Ugandan coaches satisfy technical standards to work with. We want to create a situation where all of us work for Uganda,\u201d Micho said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasena ticks all the boxes and I believe that we will cooperate in the best way from technical and managerial aspects.\u201dRwanda are Uganda\u2019s other group-mates.<\/p>\n

At a glance<\/b><\/p>\n

Uganda Cranes technical team<\/b><\/p>\n

Head coach<\/b><\/p>\n

Micho Sredojevi\u0107<\/p>\n

Assistant coach<\/b><\/p>\n

Moses Basena<\/p>\n

Goalkeeping<\/b><\/p>\n

Fred Kajoba<\/p>\n

Performance<\/b><\/p>\n

Franck Plaine<\/p>\n

Analyst<\/b><\/p>\n

Addis Worku<\/p>\n

Team manager<\/b><\/p>\n

Geoffrey Massa<\/p>\n

Physiotherapy<\/b><\/p>\n

Ivan Ssewanyana<\/p>\n

[email protected]<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Uganda. It was not meant to be like this, but is what it is. Livingston Mbabazi was the man first picked by Micho Sredojevic as the assistant coach of the Uganda Cranes. But because of Fufa\u2019s new requirement that national team assistant coaches concentrate fully on that, and not clubs, the Arua Hills […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-15892","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":"\nBasena good-fit for Micho - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It was not meant to be like this, but is what it is. 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