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Although goals give strikers lots of currency, Ugandan strikers have not quite developed an affinity for finding the onion bag. This has perennially left The Cranes in a quandary as last year's goalless draw at home to Kenya attests.
Over the past couple of years, The Cranes had found something of an antidote in David Obua. The enigmatic utility player was deployed in the final third of the pitch, playing off the battling ram that is Geoffrey Massa. He didn't disappoint, bailing The Cranes out of jail on a number of occasions.
When Obua pulled the plug on his Cranes career after an altercation with Fufa bigwigs, questions were bound to proliferate as to who would be the source of Team Uganda's goals on the international stage. Obua's gangly frame and nippy feet had helped themselves to 14 goals in 27 appearances for The Cranes.
Football may be a team sport, but teams sure are crafted around individuals. The Cranes had markedly been crafted around Obua in the past couple of years or so. Obua wasn't as prolific as Musisi, but he had a subtle knack of finding a gear that would rev The Cranes.
This is possibly the solitary reason why, his shenanigans notwithstanding, Ugandans purred over Obua so much so they christened him King David. Now, the same Ugandans are purring over Emmanuel Okwi after the youngster's goal - his 10th in a Cranes jersey - secured Uganda a credible 1-1 draw away to Angola in a 2014 Fifa World Cup qualifier.
They believe that a surrogate for Obua has been found. They have every right to think as much. Ever since Okwi nonchalantly opened his Cranes account with a cushioning goal in Uganda's 2-0 win over Rwanda in the 2009 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup final, he has always delivered when fielded.
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His four goals apiece in the 2010 and 2011 Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup tournaments state as much. But whether Okwi has what it takes to continue delivering similar cameos over a protracted period remains to be seen.
Many Cranes strikers have tended to pull up short on this front, notably Massa. A brace at home to Lesotho saw Massa get out of the blocks quickly amidst lots of fanfare, but his international goals inextricably dried up along the way.
Nowadays, he is renowned not as much for his goals than hold up play. Massa's not alone, though. Brian Umony also had a searing start to his Cranes career, scoring eight goals in eight games that were sprayed out over three months.
Umony then forthwith put on the skids in his subsequent games for The Cranes. He has never flirted with the word prolific since hitting that rather barren patch. In fact, bar Okwi, the only active Cranes striker who has looked something close to being productive, if not consistent, is Geoffrey Sserunkuma (with 15 goals in 21 appearances).
But Sserukuma also hasn't done himself any favours by cutting the image of an impact player as opposed to a bonafide leader of the line. Sserunkuma performed dismally when asked to lead the line in the 3-1 loss away to Congo-Brazzaville early this year.
Sserunkuma's languid style has always merited a start from the bench as his performance in Congo-Brazzaville indicated. So, from the looks of it, Okwi will continue to lead The Cranes' attack, or be it temporarily in the absence of the injured Massa.
How Okwi fares in the homes matches against Senegal and Congo-Brazzaville will undoubtedly determine the strength of his clench on the No.9 position. The jury, though, won't pass its verdict until the youngster delivers, as did Obua, over a protracted periodin his spare time spends with the swahili hiphop family club in Dar es salaam,TANZANIA.
Amir Maftah is a Tanzanian footballer. A left back born 26th feb 1988 nik name "PELE of Mwanza", he currently plays club football for Young Africans FC. He is also a member of the Tanzania national football team.
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On May 18, 2010, former Young Africans player from last two season's registration list.
the wing-back Amir Maftah has been outstanding to Simba squad which is the current tanzanian champion,and now preparing for the new league and ahead their CAF Champions League fixture next season .
the wing-back Amir Maftah has been outstanding to Simba squad which is the current tanzanian champion,and now preparing for the new league and ahead their CAF Champions League fixture next season .
Maftah, who joined the Msimbazi Street outfit from their Yanga is an mwanza city origin,
who inspired alot young talents ,maftah is working on his Documentary "Dakika 90 na Amir Maftah" under a company called ASAR ENTERTAINMENT in mwenge Dar es salaam.
amir is a very dynamic when he's playing for national team ,we could all understand the young talent wants recognition.in his spare time spends with the swahili hiphop family club .
LIL' CEASE ASEMA "MIMI SIO SNICHII...!" AMWAMBIA LIL KIM
Lil' Cease said that he never said anything during her perjury trial that led to her incarceration.
Back in 2005, Lil’ Cease took the stand and testified against Lil’ Kim in her perjury trial that eventually led to her spending a year and a day in prison. But he maintains that he never snitched on his former ally.
During an interview with ThisIs50.com, Cease-A-Leo said that he never said anything that led to her guilty verdict and that he was a victim of media manipulation.
"The way the media made it, they made it seem like it was something more than what it was. It wasn't that much of a thing. Just the fact that I was on that stand, it made it look funny. It's public records, it's paperwork. I can't hide my government name. I put out albums before. My name is James Lloyd. If you go down to the federal plaza, you can get a case number. You can buy the paperwork and see what I actually said."
He said that he couldn't have said anything that would have put her behind bars. The Notorious B.I.G. protege continued by explaining that perjury was her own undoing and that he would still like to reconnect with her on the basis that they have history ("I love you like a bag of weed," he said).
"She wasn't in a situation for me to say something that would send her away. Maybe the people around her made it look that way or she felt that way because of the situation she was in, but I just felt like it was a situation where she could have done things to change things and she didn't. But it was nothing that nobody said on my end, as far as anybody. Not just me, but anybody from the M.A.F.I.A. Nobody said nothing that sent her away. I think no matter how her situation would have went down, she would have still went away for the things she lied about. There's nothing that we discriminated on."
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