{"id":42144,"date":"2019-06-24T11:52:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=42144"},"modified":"2019-06-24T11:52:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:52:02","slug":"uganda-cranes-plan-for-their-next-afcon-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uganda-cranes-plan-for-their-next-afcon-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda cranes plan for their next AFCON game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Juliet Nalwooga.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uganda cranes coach Sebastian Desabre says they now have to plan for the next game after pulling off a good performance against DR Congo for the group A encounter in Cairo Egypt at the AFCON finals 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Uganda cranes ended a 41-year wait for an Africa Cup of Nations victory when they beat the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s leopards\u00a02-0 nil.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_42151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42151\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-42151 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/8794154-6615463-image-a-11_1548077228685-6-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/8794154-6615463-image-a-11_1548077228685-6-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/8794154-6615463-image-a-11_1548077228685-6.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Patrick Kaddu celebrating Uganda&#8217;s opener against DRC in the opening at the AFCON in Egypt<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s stunning win came through Patrick Kaddu and Emmauel Okwi\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n<p>This is also Uganda&#8217;s first three points at the finals since a 2-1 semi-final win over Nigeria en route to the 1978 Afcon final.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match presser Coach Desabre said the win is now history and they are now focused on the next match against Zimbabwe on\u00a0 Wednesday 26th June.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DRC coach Florent Ibenge says Uganda beat them fair and square and they have no excuses for the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Juliet Nalwooga. Uganda cranes coach Sebastian Desabre says they now have to plan for the next game after pulling off a good performance against DR Congo for the group A encounter in Cairo Egypt at the AFCON finals 2019. The Uganda cranes ended a 41-year wait for an Africa Cup of Nations victory when they beat the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s leopards\u00a02-0 nil. Uganda\u2019s stunning win came through Patrick Kaddu and Emmauel Okwi\u2019s goals. This is also Uganda&#8217;s first three points at the finals since a 2-1 semi-final win over Nigeria en route to the 1978 Afcon final. In a post-match presser Coach Desabre said the win is now history and they are now focused on the next match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":42150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}