2011 CECAFA: Group A down to 3 teams?

November 25th, 2011 | by: sscouser |

Guests Namibia pulled out of the 2011 CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup . The Namibians cited the late invitation as the main reason why they opted not to participate in the tournament.

“CECAFA is to blame for late invitation, we would have used the Challenge Cup to assess our players ahead of our next international assignments,” the Namibia football authorities were quoted as saying on Monday.

The Brave Warriors (Namibia) were in Group A along with Tanzania, Rwanda and Djibouti. I understand they have been replaced by Zimbabwe.

Group A: Tanzania, Rwanda, ~~Ethiopia~~ ~~Namibia~~, Zimbabwe, Djibouti
Group B: Uganda, Burundi, Zanzibar, Somalia
Group C: Sudan, Kenya, Malawi, ~~Eritrea~~ Ethiopia

25 November: Somalia 1:4 Burundi (2pm); Zanzibar 1:2 Uganda (4pm)
26 November: Tanzania vs Rwanda
27 November: ~~Namibia~~ Zimbabwe vs Djibouti; Zanzibar vs Burundi
28 November: Sudan vs Ethiopia; Kenya vs Malawi; Somalia vs Uganda
29 November: Rwanda vs ~~Namibia~~ Zimbabwe; Djibouti vs Tanzania
30 November: Ethiopia vs Kenya; Malawi vs Sudan
01 December: Somalia vs Zanzibar; Burundi vs Uganda
02 December: Rwanda vs Djibouti; Ethiopia vs Malawi
03 December: Kenya vs Sudan; Tanzania vs ~~Namibia~~ Zimbabwe

Feel free to post match results in the comments section.

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Comments

By Mwarimu Nsonso | November 26th, 2011 at 11:33 am

Rwanda 1 Tanzania 0

By Collings lungu | November 28th, 2011 at 4:03 am

Malawi 2 kenya 1

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By sscouser | November 28th, 2011 at 10:14 am

Thanks Mwarimu. Collings, Malawi won 2-0. Anyway, you predicted a Malawi win.

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By The Ugandan... | November 29th, 2011 at 2:55 pm

Namibia didn’t want to jeopardize their Nations Cup appeal. Remember countries that are to participate in the Nations cup are not allowed to play in the CECAFA tournament unless they are members like Sudan.

Good win for Malawi.

By sscouser | November 30th, 2011 at 12:47 pm

I see. The Ugandan…, is it just by coincidence that you only comment when the CECAFA Tournament is going on? Was this your last comment during the 2010 CECAFA Senior Challenge? Cranes still grinding out results? Losing not in their DNA?

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