Onyango odd selection in Chan team

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Soccer. Twenty four of the 32 named players for the final game of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers against Congo ply their trade in the domestic league.

KAMPALA. Cranes skipper Denis Onyango looks the odd man out in a team Uganda interim coach Moses Basena intends to take to Congo next month.
The Mamelodi Sundowns goalkeeper was yesterday named in a 32-man squad Basena will prepare for Uganda’s final 2018 World Cup qualifier away to Congo. As reported by the Daily Monitor over a fortnight ago that Fufa were considering using mainly domestic players for the said match, 24 of the named 32 indeed play from home.
The newspaper’s reasoning, backed by inside sources at Fufa, was that since Egypt had already taken the only slot to Russia 2018, it made perfect sense that Uganda used this match to prepare for the next immediate competitive tasks.

Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup is due later in the year, after which Uganda feature in the only home-based players tournament, the Africa Nations Championship (Chan) in Morocco early next year.
“We are out of the World Cup qualification and the best we can do now is take a Chan team so that it gets cohesion ahead of the finals,” said the source at the time.
So it was hardly surprising that Basena indeed named a team heavy on home-based players.
However, you would have thought that for a man with nothing to prove, Onyango - given his busy schedule with the club in the South African and Champions Leagues - and his club would have benefited from being left out of Congo trip.
Farouk Miya (Belgium), Kizito Luwagga (Romania), Khalid Aucho (Serbia) and Tonny Mawejje (Albania) are some of the foreign-based players excused from this one.
Uganda face Congo on November 12, the same day Egypt confront Ghana, in the final matches of Group E and Basena is indeed looking to the Cranes trip to get a sense of the next major assignments.
‘We shall use the match to fine-tune players for forthcoming international fixtures for the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup, Chan in Morocco and the 2019 Nations Cup Qualifiers,” said Basena.
“The door is not closed for other players.” The training programme will be released later this week.

CRANES SQUAD
Goalkeepers: D. Onyango, I. Watenga, B. Ochan, T. Ikara
Rest of the Squad: N. Wadada, J. Nsubuga, I.Muleme, G. Walusimbi, D. Guma, I. Isinde, J. Murushid, S. Kabugo, I. Kiyemba, T. Awany, B. Muwanga, H. Wasswa, T. Masiko, S. Kagimu, G.Ghadafi, M. Muzamiru, P. Mucurezi, M. Waisswa, D. Owori, A.Kyambadde, A. Mugisa, H. Kaweesa D. Sadala, E. Okwi, G.Sserunkuma, N. Senkatuka, M.Karisa, D. Nsibambi