{"id":34516,"date":"2022-07-24T10:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T10:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering"},"modified":"2022-07-24T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T10:34:07","slug":"sand-cranes-unwavering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering","title":{"rendered":"Sand Cranes unwavering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>There are notable beach soccer household names missing on the Sand Cranes team as they take on Comoros in the Beach Soccer Afcon qualifying epic tie this afternoon at the Stade de Plan\u2019ete Plage &#8211; Moloni.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Magwali (Buganda Royal), Swalley Ssimbwa (St. Lawrence University), Rica Byaruhanga and Suleiman Ochero (both St Lawrence University) are not part of the 15 national team soldiers that coach Salim Muwonge travelled with on Friday aboard Kenya Airways to kick-start a solemn qualifying bid.<\/p>\n<p>Muwonge has instead vested his faith in rookies Ashraf Apuuli (Mutoola Beach), Joshua Lubwama (St. Lawrence University) and Shaka Ssozi (Jinja Lions) as he seeks to alter the core team that made the semifinals of the Falcon finals on their maiden appearance in May last year in Senegal.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Muwonge will have the valuable experience of Meddie Kibirige, Paul Lule, Jonathan Kikonyogo and Ismail Kawawulo who featured in the opening 5-1 mauling by eventual champions Senegal in the opening game on May 25,2022.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bring on Comoros<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After two intense weeks of training and ironing out all the nitty gritty, Muwonge feels ready for the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had good training for this game and we expect to get positive results away. The players are in the right mood mentally and physically,\u201d Muwonge pledged.<\/p>\n<p>The return leg will be held at Fufa Technical Centre-Njeru in a fortnight with a place at the Mozambique final showpiece in October at stake.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sand Cranes 15-man squad in Comoros<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Goalkeepers:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Samson Kirya,<\/p>\n<p>Meddie Kibirige<\/p>\n<p><b>Defenders:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hassan Ali Luboyera<\/p>\n<p>Paul Lule<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Kikonyogo<\/p>\n<p>Allan Katwe<\/p>\n<p>Ashraf Apuuli<\/p>\n<p><b>Forwards:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Isma Kawawulo<\/p>\n<p>Baker Lukoya<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose Kigozi<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Lubwama<\/p>\n<p>Shaka Ssozi<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Mwere<\/p>\n<p>Godfrey Lwesibawa<\/p>\n<p>Brian Nkuubi<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. There are notable beach soccer household names missing on the Sand Cranes team as they take on Comoros in the Beach Soccer Afcon qualifying epic tie this afternoon at the Stade de Plan\u2019ete Plage &#8211; Moloni. Ronald Magwali (Buganda Royal), Swalley Ssimbwa (St. Lawrence University), Rica Byaruhanga and Suleiman Ochero (both St [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":34515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-34516","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>Sand Cranes unwavering - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There are notable beach soccer household names missing on the Sand Cranes team as they take on Comoros in the Beach Socc ...\" \/>\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\/sand-cranes-unwavering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sand Cranes unwavering\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There are notable beach soccer household names missing on the Sand Cranes team as they take on Comoros in the Beach Socc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering\" \/>\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=\"2022-07-24T10:13:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-24T10:34:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_13-62dd2009e3958.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/sand-cranes-unwavering#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sand Cranes unwavering\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-24T10:13:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-24T10:34:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering\"},\"wordCount\":292,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_13-62dd2009e3958.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\/sand-cranes-unwavering#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/sand-cranes-unwavering\",\"name\":\"Sand Cranes unwavering - 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