The Uganda U20 National team, the Hippos returns home Tuesday morning after painfully exiting from the African Youth Championship at Tamale Sports stadium on Saturday.
The Hippos that travelled to Ghana with a 3-1 home win advantage succumbed to a 3-0 defeat to lose the slot to the Black Satellites on a 4-3 aggregate. Ghana will now play Morocco in the third and final round of the qualifiers.
The team led by the Vice President Technical Stone Kyambadde left Tamale on Sunday morning and spent a night in Accra City. They will be on flight No. KQ 509T to Nairobi this Monday evening and are expected at Kenyata International Airport around 5:30am the following day. Their final flight to Entebbe (KQ 410T) leaves Nairobi at 07:55 and lands at Entebbe International Airport at 09:10am (Local Time).
Future plans:
FUFA wishes to congratulate the young Hippos players upon getting to this level and urging them to remain focused. The Federation is committed to maintaining this squad and exposing the young boys to more friendly matches as we prepare them for other engagements to come.
To the Technical bench, we urge you to put right the mistakes committed in this particular tournament in order to avoid a repeat of the same in future. It’s obvious that a loss is a result of mistakes committed. We however commend the entire coaching staff for guiding this young side to the second round of the championship.
