Uganda is facing a South Sudan side that will be looking to revive their hopes in the back to back matches of the 2021 Total Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.

Match Day 3 is scheduled for 12 November 2020 in Kampala, while the return match takes place at the Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, Kenya four days later.

Seven home-based players made it to the list of twenty-seven as the Uganda Cranes team intensifies preparations for the upcoming double header against South Sudan.

Inclusive is the budding talent Karim Watambala who caught many by surprise but the Uganda Cranes head coach Johnathan McKinstry is poised with the decision to retain him.

The agile forward who is gifted with great energy and dribbling skills cut his teeth with St Mary’s SS Kitende from where he joined Vipers Sports Club the reigning StarTimes Uganda Premier League Champions.

 Meanwhile, Bright Stars gaffer Ashu Cyprian Besong  has recalled fifteen foreign based and eleven locally based players ahead of the tie

Besong surprise inclusion was the little known Gudele FC Juba goalkeeper Nasir Haidar Ishka.

Wani Evans Adebo and Wol Makueth Akeen who are currently playing their trade in the Uganda Premier League are some of the notable players in the South Sudan team alongside Kenyan champions Gor Mahia’s Tito Okello Odong.

South Sudan National Team

The team has been mostly dominated by the players who faced Cameroon domestic based team in two friendlies last month, both ending in a goalless draw.

South Sudan trails Group B pointless, having suffered an away 1-0 loss to Malawi before falling 2-1 at home against Burkina Faso.

A Battle of Wits awaits these two regional rivals.