In just a few months after the Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) Executive Committee took a painful decision to withdraw the U23 team from AFCON Qualifiers due to financial constraints, the Uganda Cranes CHAN are down the same road.
Mr Moses Magogo, the FUFA President through his Twitter handle on Monday December 12 said, “Like for the U23, we are left with no further option but to withdraw the Uganda Cranes from CHAN finals because the ministry of finance has not provided the funds as appropriated by the Uganda government.” He wrote. “The sanctions to Uganda will affect the sports in the future if we don’t act now, sorry for the coaches and players who qualified the team but it is the moment to face the reality.”
The Cranes were set to go in action with Dr Congo on the 14th January 2023 in their first game at the finals where they were placed with Senegal, DRC and Ivory Coast.
The second leg was to be played on January 18 against Senegal and the third on January 22, 2023 which was all going to happen in Algeria.