CAF African Schools Football
Tanzania Girls defeat Morocco in CAF African Schools Football
Tanzania’s girls team have kick started the CAF African Schools Football Championship 2024 with a 1-0 against Morocco.
A shot by Asha Omary Ramadhani was deflected by Morocco’s Nossaiba El Hilali to give Tanzania the lead after 11 minutes in a Group A match played at the Amaan Stadium in Zanzibar. The Tanzanian team dominated the match, but failed to find more goals.
Uganda, the other CECAFA representatives also picked a 1-1 draw in a Group B match against South Africa, while the match between Togo and The Gambia ended goalless.
In the boys category Tanzania settled for a goalless draw against Senegal in a Group A match, while Guinea stopped Benin 2-1, and South Africa brushed aside Libya 3-0.
Action continues on Wednesday with Tanzania facing Uganda in the Boys category, while Uganda will also battle Senegal the same day. The Tanzania girls team that now leads Group A will face Congo, while Uganda will have two matches against Togo and The Gambia to decide if they make it to the knock out stage.
The best two teams from each group will qualify for the semi-finals stage.
The winners of both the Boys’ and Girls’ competition will each receive USD 300 000 prize money, runners-up each receiving USD 200 000, while the bronze medalists will each take home USD 150 000, courtesy of CAF’s partnership with the Motsepe Foundation to be utilised for development projects within schools
Day 1 collected results
Boys
Benin 1 Guinea 2
South Africa 3 Libya 0
Tanzania 0 Senegal 0
Girls
Togo 0 The Gambia 0
South Africa 1 Uganda 1
Tanzania 1 Morocco 0
Girls Groups
Group A: Tanzania, Morocco, Congo Republic
Group B: South Africa, Togo, The Gambia, Uganda
Boys Groups
Group A: Tanzania, Senegal, Uganda,
Group B: South Africa, Benin, Guinea, Libya
African Schools Football Championship
Tanzania, Uganda are CAF African Schools Football Championship Zonal Winners
Tanzania and Uganda are the winners of the Boys and Girls categories at the CAF African Schools Football Championship – CECAFA qualifier that climaxed on Thursday in Uganda.
The Tanzania team handled by former International Boniface Pawasa defeated Rwanda 2-0 in their last deciding match to finish ahead of Uganda on better goal difference since each collected six points.
Elick Yusuph converted a penalty in the first half, and Jabiri Farijala wrapped it up with a second half goal at the St. Mary’s Stadium, Kitende. “I am very happy that we are the
champions of the tournament. It was hard work and now we shall need to focus to preparing a team for the continental tournament,” said Pawasa
The earlier Boys match saw Burundi hold Somalia to a goalless draw.
In the Girl’s category Uganda emerged Champions with a better goal difference than Tanzania who also finished with 7 points.
Uganda humbled Rwanda 8-0 in an earlier match with Brendah Nassaka scoring four goals, while Halima Mupyanga scored a brace. Cynthia Kirenga and Lilian Nabukeera also got their names on the score sheet.
The second match saw Tanzania stop Burundi 1-0 with Helena Mtundagi scoring the lone goal. Lilian Nabukeera, Uganda’s captain thanked all her teammates for the hard work. “We are very happy to be the champions,” she added.
While the champions Tanzania and Uganda received medals and trophies at the Awards ceremony, they also picked a US$10,000 the dummy cheque of US$100,000 respectively.
Uganda’s Boys team and the Tanzania Girls team collected their medals and a dummy cheque of US$75,000 each, while Somalia and Burundi who came third in the Boys and Girl’s categories respectively also picked medals and dummy cheques of US$50,000 each.
The CAF Africa Schools Football Championship is sponsored by the Motsepe Foundation.
CAF African Schools Football
Top scorer’s Award excites Uganda’s forward Nassaka
Uganda’s Brendah Nassaka has said winning the top scorer’s Award at the Zonal CAF African Schools Football Championship has excited her.
Nassaka, a student of St. Noah Girls School netted four goals in their 8-0 win against Rwanda on Thursday. “I am very happy that I scored four goals and helped my team emerge champions of the Girls category,” said a happy Nassaka.
She made it clear that as a forward scoring goals is what makes her happy. “I am very happy to score four goals in a regional tournament and win the Award. But this also gives me another chance at the continental level when we play next year,” added Nassaka.
During the Awards ceremony on Thursday Uganda’s Haira Naboosa was also voted Best goalkeeper, Rwanda picked the Fair Play Award, while Burundi’s Ella Louange Kezimana was voted best Girl’s Player.
In the Boys category Tanzania picked the Fair Play Award, Jean Marie Irakiza (Burundi) was the Best goalkeeper, while Uganda’s Ashraf Kyakuwa was the Best Player.
Awards
Girls
Fair-Play Award – Rwanda
Best Goalkeeper – Haira Naboosa (Uganda)
Top Scorer – Brendah Nassaka (Uganda)
Best Player – Ella Louange Kezimana (Burundi)
Boys
Fair-Play Award – Tanzania
Best Goalkeeper – Jean Marie Irakiza (Burundi)
Top Scorer – Not Awarded as six player scored a goal each
Best Player – Ashraf Kyakuwa (Uganda)
AFRICAN SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIP
Day 2: Somalia revive title hopes in Zonal CAF African Schools Football Championship
The Somalia team has revived their title hopes in the Boys category at the on-going Zonal CAF African Schools Football Championship in Uganda.
After kick starting their campaign with a 1-0 defeat to Uganda and a draw against Tanzania on Tuesday, the Somalia team defeated Rwanda 2-1 in a tough match played today at the St. Mary’s Stadium, Kitende.
Zakariya Osman gave the Somalia team the lead, and Olivier Nshimiyimana leveled matters. But the Somalia team did not give up and piled lots of pressure to earn a penalty that skipper Bashir Hassan converted.
The win takes Somalia to second place with 4 points, behind Uganda (6 points) who only managed goalless draws against Tanzania and Burundi in matches played on Wednesday.
“We are hungry and will be determined to beat Burundi on Thursday so that we win the Cup,” said Somalia’s Captain Bashir Hassan. The two matches in the Boys category between Somalia and Burundi, and Tanzania against Rwanda will decide which team wins the Cup. Uganda who top the log have played all their 4 matches and can only keep their fingers crossed.
In the Girls category Uganda and Tanzania settled for a goalless draw, while Burundi humbled Rwanda 3-0. Erica Iradukunda netted a brace, while Emelyne Shurwenylmana Emelyne was also on target for the third placed Burundi team that has collected 3 points. Tanzania and Uganda each have 4 points going into the final day on Thursday.
Rwanda will face Uganda, while table leaders Tanzania battle Burundi in the final Girls’ matches to be played on Thursday.
The winners in each category will qualify to represent the Zone at the continental Championship next year. The winner will also bag US$100,000, the runner-up US$75,000, and the third placed US$50,000. The Championship is also supported by the Motsepe Foundation.
CAF African Schools Football
Day 1: Uganda, Tanzania take early lead in Zonal CAF African Schools Championship
Hosts Uganda and Tanzania are top of the Boys and Girls categories respectively on Day 1 of the CAF African Schools Football Championship.
Uganda defeated Somalia 1-0 in their opening Boys match with Nabiru Kajumba netting the lone goal on Tuesday at the St. Marys Stadium, Kitende.
They followed it up with a hard fought goalless draw against Rwanda in the second match to send them top of the table with 4 points.
Ashraf Kyakuwa, the Ugandan team captain told Cecafaonline that they are happy to lead the log on Day 1, but added that they must work hard in their remaining matches against Tanzania and Burundi. “We need to keep working hard because we have more matches to play,” added Kyakuwa.
In the other Boys matches played which all ended goalless involved Tanzania against Burundi, and Somalia against Tanzania.
In the Girls category Tanzania demolished Rwanda 5-1 to go top of the log. Helena Mtundagi netted a brace, while Bahati Steven, Elizabeth Chenge and Neema Thomas all got their names on the score sheet.
The win sent Tanzania top of the table after Uganda only managed to defeat Burundi 2-1 in the second Girls’ match played. Annastanzia Ambeiza scored a brace, and Erica Iradukunda scored the sole goal for Burundi.
Action continues on Wednesday with four matches in the Boys category and two in the Girl’s category. The Championship is played on a round robin basis. The winners in each category will bag US$100,000, the runner-up US$75,000, and the third placed US$50,000.
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