East Africa Cup

Football, soccer unites people, definately. and it is also THE sport in Uganda. but even if Ugandans are football fanatics, they are not playing that well- internationally. (same like china ;) ) so, the NATIONAL TEAM is actually Manchester United....

The official team, the Uganda Cranes, hasn't qualified for the Worldcup- neither for the African cup- so the East African Cup is just a consolation to them. And they performed well, and made it to the half-final. which we visited last sunday. On a side note: the match was pushed forward for 3 hours , because Manchester was supposed to play Chelsea the same time.....
and maybe because of that, and maybe because of the ticket prices (4-8 euro) the NelsonMandela national stadium was rather empty with only around 8.000 supporters out of possible 40.000.
But it was fun, as Uganda won 5:0 against Burundi, which had a desolate defence...



and this is how the UGA-Cranes masquot got arrested...


In the final yesterday Uganda beat Kenia with 1:0, congretulations Cranes!