Group D Pld Won Pts Borussia Dortmund 4 4 12 Arsenal 4 2 7 Anderlecht 4 0 2 Galatasaray 4 0 1 Arsenal Starting Formation:4-5-1 • 26. Emiliano Martinez • 21. Calum Chambers • 4. Per Mertesacker • 18. Nacho Monreal • 3. Kieran Gibbs • 8. Mikel Arteta • 15. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain • 16. Aaron Ramsey • 19. Santi Cazorla • 17. Alexis Sanchez • 22. Yaya Sanogo Subs • 43. Ryan Huddart • 6. Laurent Koscielny • 7. Tomas Rosicky • 9. Lukas Podolski • 20. Mathieu Flamini • 28. Joel Campbell • 39. Hector Bellerin orussia Dortmund Starting Formation:4-4-1-1 • 1. Roman Weidenfeller • 26. Lukasz Piszczek • 4. Neven Subotic • 28. Matthias Ginter • 29. Marcel Schmelzer • 10. Henrikh Mkhitaryan • 6. Sven Bender • 8. IIkay Gundogan • 19. Kevin Grosskreutz • 9. Ciro Immobile • 17. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Subs • 22. Mitch Langerak • 3. Marc Hornschuh • 5. Sebastian Kehl • 7. Shinji Kagawa • 14. Milos Jojic • 20. Adrian Ramos • 37. Erik Durm Match facts Bulgarian champions Ludogorets have won 14 of their 28 games in all competitions this campaign. Liverpool have lost six of their 12 Premier League games this season. They lost six times in the whole of 2013-14. Ludogorets have won nine out of 13 on their own turf this season, including victories in each of their last four home games. Liverpool have lost four games in a row in all competitions for the first time since September/October 2009. Injured Italy striker Mario Balotelli has not travelled to Bulgaria, meaning England forward Rickie Lambert is expected to retain his place. But Rodgers is likely to make changes from Sundays 3-1 defeat at Crystal Palace with Spain defender Alberto Moreno expected to start at left-back. Reds captain Steven Gerrard, 34, may be rested after Rodgers, who says the ex-England midfielder is the best player he has worked with,admitted he cannot play three games in a week. Fellow midfielder Jordan Henderson returns after missing the Palace loss through illness. Meanwhile, Ludogorets coach Georgi Dermendzhiev believes he has spotted physical and mental weakness in all of Liverpools performances this season. Liverpool have very high-quality players and the only problems they have are in the minds of the players, said Dermendzhiev, whose team will be eliminated from Europe with a defeat. I also know they have very good players and even if they are not in the right mindset they can still turn it around very easy. LINEUP, BOOKINGS (0) & SUBSTITUTIONS (0) Ludogorets Razgrad • 21 Stoyanov • 80 Paula Junior • 27 Moti • 55 Terziev • 25 Minev • 18 Dyakov • 08 Espinho • 93 Misidjan • 84 Marcelinho • 07 Aleksandrov • 17 Dani Substitutes • 05 Barthe • 11 Azevedo Junior • 12 Anicet • 15 Aleksandrov • 26 Borjan • 88 Wanderson • 99 Younes Liverpool • 22 Mignolet • 19 Manquillo • 37 Skrtel • 04 K Touré • 02 Johnson • 24 Allen • 21 Lucas • 14 Henderson • 08 Gerrard • 31 Sterling • 09 Lambert Substitutes • 01 Jones • 06 Lovren • 10 Coutinho • 18 Moreno • 20 Lallana • 23 Can • 29 Borini Ref: Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz National Football Workshop: 24th – 25th January 2015 In Kampala. Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) has organized a two day national football workshop in Kampala due early next year. “This will be the first football workshop of its nature in Uganda’s history. It is meant to seek means from all stakeholders on how to plan for the success of Uganda’s football” FUFA President Eng. Moses Magogo said. Eng. Magogo was addressing the media on Wednesday at FUFA house, Mengo for the first time since he arrived from Morocco. Flanked by National team coach, Milutin ‘Micho’ Sedrojevic, two FUFA Vice Presidents; Justus Mugisha and Darius Mugoye and Hamid Juma, the FUFA head of technical, the president thanked the players, government, sponsors, media and all the stake holders that have always helped the game of football develop. The Committee for workshop has FUFA Vice President, Justus Mugisha as its head. Other members on the organizing committee are Patrick Mugumya, Dr. Benard Patrick Ogwel, Mark Namanya, Sam Mpiima, Norah Nassimbwa, Patrick Isiagi, Kennedy Mutenyo and Rogers Mulindwa. Delegates from three nations; Ghana, Cape Verde and Costa Rica have been specially invited to make presentations. Several key note speakers from the sports fraternity and Government will be given a chance to present at the workshop. FUFA President’s speech at the completion of 2015 Afcon qualifiers Dear fellow countrymen, Although Uganda will take another painful wait to compete at the finals of the Africa Cup of Nations, I take the opportunity to thank the following; • HE the President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni • Various officials and organs of the Government of Uganda • Our Sponsors; Airtel, Nile Breweries and NIC • The FUFA Excom, Staff and Officials • The Head Coach, Technical and Support Personnel of the Uganda Cranes • The players for gallant performances that was exhibited • The fans for the unending support and belief • The Media for their role as the 4th estate • Any other persons and organization not mentioned that helped with the completion of the campaign. ) Media: Whereas positive criticism is important for development, the way the media in Uganda supports the qualification is still wanting. Where in the world does the media criticize and tear apart a campaign of the national team before the task is completed? How can the media put graphical detail of the injury of a player like the case was with Yunus Sentamu before the Ghana game? How does a campaign benefit from front line pages of arresting the FUFA president on match day? With the liberalization of the media platform and advent of technology, there is a lot to be done here 6) Fans: Our society is so gullible. Our fans are used by football war generals to achieve their own selfish objectives. With due respect to the ever supporting loyal Uganda Cranes fans, many Ugandans prefer free entrances to games, prefer to buy counterfeit jerseys, and do not watch the league. Many Ugandans support the recent result. I would like to thank the fans for the support they gave the Uganda Cranes when they played against Ghana at Namboole. In my life, I have never seen fans support the Uganda Cranes with passion like they did against Ghana. 7) Clubs: Without proper clubs structure, there is no way players development will be undertaken. Players are developed at Clubs. The reason Uganda has lost a lot of talent is a weak if not non-existent clubs structure. It is not by coincidence that great talent in the names of Bengo, Saddam Juma, Serunkuma, Ntambi etc exit at the same point in their development career. Even if everything else is fixed but with this talent leakage, we shall still not get the end product. With good Clubs we shall definitely have a strong league and better harnessing ground for national team players. This requires a bit of time. 8) The last man on the relay team determines the success of the team. When everything has been done, it is eventually the player and not even the coach who bangs the goals to qualify. Whereas Uganda is endowed with absolute raw talent, we do not convert potential and talent to final product. Look comparatively at the level of players we compete with. While Emmanuel Adebayo scores goals for Totenham Hotspur, he is taken care of by Savio Kabugo from SCVU. In boxing, this is not acceptable for a Super Heavy to take on a Bantam Weight. We need to raise the professional quality of our players and this needs time to fix. Considering how much we are lacking in the 8 key parameters required for qualifying and the amount of time to fix, FUFA has decided to think long term by creating ‘PROJECT CAMEROON 2019′. Aware that World Cup 2018 qualifiers, AFCON 2017 Qualifiers, CECAFAs, U20 All Africa Games, 2016 Olympic Qualifiers and CHAN are in between, FUFA will only use those competitions for adding more miles into the legs of the players. We call upon all stakeholders to be patient with this project else another disappointment for 2017 AFCON qualifier is eminent. In order to achieve the Ugandan Dream of playing at AFCON, FUFA has scheduled a two-day stakeholders’ workshop on Friday and Saturday 24th and 25th January 2015. The Workshop is expected to deeply analyse why since 1978 Uganda has not been able to qualify and attempt to obtain the Country Agenda for the PROJECT CAMEROON 2019. Presentations will be from various stakeholders inclusive of Government and football persons from countries that always qualify. FUFA has highlighted Ghana, Zambia, Cape Verde and Costa Rica. Mr. Justus Mugisha the first FUFA VP will head the workshop organizing committee Alleged Match fixing FUFA has received reports of fans attacking different players for allegedly fixing the match result against Guinea. Our gullible and patriotic innocent fans have been motivated by selfish individuals who survive on chaos in football. FUFA strongly condemns acts of violence especially against our players who have on many occasions given this nation happiness. It is an act that intimidates future players of the National Team. However, considering that match fixing is one of the cardinal offenses in football, FUFA has decided to engage the Uganda Police to utilize its expertise, facilities and the law to investigate the entire campaign into such allegations so that those innocent are cleared but in event of finding any person in acts that caused such pain to the nation, the law and the football regulations will take course Positives Football has drawn the Government closer Young players have been unearthed; Majwega, Luwagga, Kabugo and Miya As a President it has been a learning experience that we shall benefit in the future The future The FUFA Technical Committee will soon sit and analyse the performance of the entire technical personnel of the Uganda Cranes and will advise the FUFA Executive if certain persons will lose their jobs The Agenda for FUFA is reconciliation and bringing everyone to contribute to the game of football. I therefore call upon all Ugandans to strongly condemn all those persons who breed war, hate campaigns and character assassinations. Those who claim to support FUFA should desist from the style of attacking people and funning hatred for any person including those who are on a massive campaign to frustrate harmony and unity -------------------------- Former assistant to George ‘Best’ Nsimbe; Abdallah Mubiru has been named coach of KCC FC. This was made clear at Nsimbe’s farewell dinner held at Arirang Hotel on Tuesday evening after KCC FC’s 2-1 win over Kira Young which was ironically Nsimbe’s last game in charge of the club. “This club is all about continuity and as a result, we have decided to elevate Mubiru to the head coaching role,” manager Ahmed Kabuye said as quoted by the club official website. The dinner, organised by KCCA was meant to show appreciation to Nsimbe for the good work he has done for the club where he won two league titles in as many seasons he has been charge. KCCA Deputy Director of Treasury Julius Kabugo hailed Nsimbe as one of the most gifted coaches that made their accountability work easy as budget controllers. You know many people at the authority are not so much into sports and will always question the large amounts allocated to it. However, Nsimbe’s winning culture made it easy to account for the funds channeled to this football club. “And when trophies are presented, the same people who earlier questioned always jubilate the biggest. Kabugo also affirmed that like Nsimbe, Mubiru will also have full backing authority in whichever way. The ceremony was attended by current players, ex-KCC FC players who played alongside Nsimbe in his heydays who among others included SC Villa coach Sam Ssimbwa, former Cranes coach Mike Mutebi, Paul Ssali and Daily Monitor’s Fredrick Kiyingi Musisi. Others included former KCC FC coach Matia Lule, Fufa boss Eng. Moses Magogo and SC Villa Vice President Dennis Mbidde. In his speech, Magogo hailed KCC FC as a club with a clear administration and hinted that this is the reason for sporting success and also hailed Nsimbe is one of the best man managers he has ever come across. Two years ago when all clubs found themselves in confusion administration wise, KCC FC remained clear. For Nsimbe; his success is no surprise but one attribute i strongly admire about him is his man management. No wonder, his players always love him and play for him with 100% commitment. Sam Ssimbwa who played alongside Nsimbe at the club was full of praise for his colleague and added that he truly deserves such a send off. George; you are very lucky. In this club’s history, no one has ever had such a ceremony held for him when leaving but you truly deserve it. Looking around, it’s difficult to find a player in Uganda who played for one single club like you and I did despite interest from rivals like SC Villa and Express. Ssimbwa further revealed that although he is at SC Villa, his home will always be at Lugogo. “Am at SC Villa for professional reasons but Lugogo is my first home. Mike Mutebi pointed out to players that KCC FC is a club of intellectuals and asked them to remain committed even under Mubiru. I hail the likes of Ssimbwa for I managed them when I was so young but they never rebelled against me. And these were talented players as compared to the current generation thus obey the new coach. Nsimbe is gone but KCC FC will always be there.
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