As the final bend to this season’s Barclays Premier League and other top European leagues takes shape,
the UEFA Euro 2012, next year’s AFCON qualifiers and 2014 world cup process will kick off for the CAF countries.
With Newcastle, the Magpies are basing on Senegalese duo, Papis Demba Cisse and Demba Ba in their run to have European football on menu, it only worries a staunch Cranes’ fan who hosts the 2002 world cup quaterfinalists in Mandela National stadium, come June.
But with the hectic pile that Bobby Williamson’s troops have to deal with and Cisse’s current splendid performance, it gets more worrying.
Knowing that Senegal did not leave the group stages at the recent event in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, the pair’s fans back home in Dakar only get a sense of hope that having their side in Cape Town next January or in Brazil for the due world cup gets more promising.
On the Cranes’ side, we seem stuck ever since Redbull Salzburg’s Ibrahim Sekagya and unsettled David Obua hang in boots for the national side.
It will remain a fact that many of our professionals over seas do not occasionally feature or have a say in their clubs’ games and performances like the Ba’s.
Senegal scored the highest number of goals in the build up to the tourney that the Chipolopolo won three months back whereas Uganda’s collapse started away in Luanda last year.