Miya like Gerrard - Micho

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Football. The third round will see the 20 winners from the second round, including Uganda, divided into five groups of four teams. The groups will be drawn after the second round fixtures are completed. Each group winner will qualify for the 2018 Fifa World Cup

Kampala. Flashy may not well describe the person and footballer of Farouk Miya. Hard work, discipline, drive and love for a challenge, perhaps, would.
A master of the basics - his brutal execution against Togo home and away revealing the venom within, the U23 skipper is turning heads for all the right reasons.
His brace against Togo to send Uganda to the group stages of the 2018 Russia World qualification made it 10 international goals for him in all competitions this year, and 12 since making a scoring debut in a friendly over Seychelles in 2014.
Miya’s class, character and leadership have led to talk of whether it is time he made that move out of Uganda.
Risking ire, Cranes coach Micho Sredojevic has already compared the Kyambogo University second year student, who is so serious with his books he does course work during Cranes camps to Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard. “Miya Farouk is Ugandan version of Steven Gerard from his early playing days,” Micho, in perspective, told Daily Monitor.
“I will do anything possible to (ensure he does) not go anywhere in the region as time has come our players to move somewhere in highest professional football. If Togo can have players in big leagues, why not Ugandan players?”
Micho added: “Chan is greatest showroom for our players. We shall do anything possible to make them attract attention of scouts in Chan Rwanda 2016 as we look to use Cecafa and Chan as bridges for crucial Afcon qualifiers against Burkina Faso in March.” Richard Wasswa, assistant coach at Miya’s Vipers club, views the footballer as the side’s “most important player,” and that he should “keep growing in the national team.”
“Miya remains focused and he sets his own targets for every game,” said Wasswa, “Every game we (Vipers) play, the opposition try to mark him out but his speed and improvisation always beats them.”
Vipers’ secretary Harunah Kyobe says the boy will only move at the right time. “Miya is still a work in progress,” he said. “He must also be part of our Champions League campaign (early next year) as we look at how he progresses.
“We will of course be selective on his next destination. We can’t be carried away with his current success to avoid what happened to Yunus (Sentamu).
Sentamu, 20, has remained unsettled since joining Tunisian side, CS Sfaxien after his breakthrough at Chan 2014. It is reckoned the youngster was hurried into a professional move without proper guidance.

MIYA’S CRANES GOALS
November, WC qualifiers
Togo 0-1 Uganda (Miya)
Uganda 3-0 Togo (Massa, Miya x2)
October, Chan qualifiers
Uganda 2-0 Sudan (Kalanda, Miya)
Sudan 0–2 Uganda (Miya, Okhuti)
May, U23 qualifiers
Rwanda 1-2 Uganda (Mutyaba, Miya for Uganda)
Uganda 2-0 Rwanda (J. Semazzi, Miya)
July:
Uganda 1-2 Egypt (Miya for Uganda)
June, Chan qualifiers
Tanzania 0-3 Uganda (Ssekisambi x2, Miya pen)
March, 2015, friendly
Nigeria 0-1 Uganda (Miya)
Nov 2014, friendly
Uganda 3-0 Ethiopia (Massa, Sentamu, Miya)
July, 2014, friendly
Uganda 1-0 Seychelles (Miya, debut goal)