{"id":63693,"date":"2023-03-14T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=63693"},"modified":"2023-03-14T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T15:08:30","slug":"returning-ochaya-itching-to-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/returning-ochaya-itching-to-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning Ochaya itching to go again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/andrew-mwanguhya-2305846\">Andrew Mwanguhya | <\/a>Monitor\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Ochaya was not necessarily thinking about a recall to the national football team, the Uganda Cranes. Well, until recently!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>The left wingback\u2019s full focus was on his Egyptian Premier League side, Al Mokawloon Al Arab, for whom he has scored five goals and made four assists 21 championship matches into the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>As such, Al Mokawloon sit sixth on the 18-team table on 32 points, just one point behind giants Zamalek, although the latter have played one game fewer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Ochaya, 29, had partially come to terms that he was, perhaps, not part of the rebuilding process of the Cranes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>But he never stopped putting in the work after leaving DRC\u2019s TP Mazembe at the end of last season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>And his efforts paid off well at his Egyptian club, where \u201cthe coach has full faith in me,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p><strong>The Micho call &amp; meet<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>And now &#8211; rather inevitably, the Cranes, where coach Micho Sredojevic has been forced to look further up north for previously trusted soldiers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>\u201cSo I was there and coach Micho called me saying that he wanted us to talk when he was here (Egypt) for the U20 Afcon,\u201d Ochaya shared with the Daily Monitor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monitor.co.ug\/uganda\/sports\/soccer\/returning-ochaya-itching-to-go-again-4157898\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Andrew Mwanguhya | Monitor\u00a0 Joseph Ochaya was not necessarily thinking about a recall to the national football team, the Uganda Cranes. 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