{UAH} Germany to play Uganda in World Cup preps

Germany to play Uganda in World Cup preps

Publish Date: Apr 01, 2014

The German national team

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By Vision Reporter

Three-time World Cup winners will wind up their preparations for the World Cup with a match against the Cranes at Nakivubo stadium, New Vision has learnt.

 

A full strength German team will jet into the country at the end of May to play the match, their last warm up match before they head out to Brazil.

 

Germany manager Joachim Low decided on Uganda rather than South Africa, over the weekend on the strength of the country’s high regional ranking and similar playing style to their group G opponents Ghana.

 

“Uganda have a competent team which is technically sound though not mentally tough but I think they will serve the purpose,” Low told German paper Der Spiegel.

 

Low who has shepherded the second ranked Germans since 2006 sees another advantage to visiting Uganda.

“We play Ghana in Fortaleza, which is near the equator so playing in Kampala should be useful preparation,” he said.

 

Germany is  drawn with Portugal, Ghana and the USA.

 

FUFA officials are exicted about the development.

 

“This is great news. At the last World Cup we hoped for some high profile warmups but got none. We couldn’t have asked for a better team,” a senior official said.

 

Asked about the strange choice of Nakivubo for the match, the official said it was on the request of the Germans.

 

“Actually they wanted to play in Wankulukuku but we said security would be a problem. Low was adamant he did not want to play in Nambole … something about poor facilities in Brazil and trying mirror their possible experience there,” the official explained.

 

Uganda is not a very strange choice going by the statistics. Whereas they have a dismal record against Ghana, winning only two of their last ten matches, the Cranes are the highest ranked team in the region at 85 ahead of Kenya, 109,

 

Tanzania 117 and Rwanda, 130.

 

German fan Franklin Kaweesi was clear where his allegiance will be, “Germany. I only support winning teams,” he said with no sense of irony given his die-hard support for the Cranes all his life.

 

Oh wait..hold it there ......Today is April Fool’s Day!

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