Mike Mutebi has described KCCA’s campaign on the continent as ‘very good’.
The Kasasiro bowed out of the Total CAF Confederation Cup 2017 after losing 4-0 away to Club Africain in a match they needed a point to progress to the quarter finals.
Mutebi, whose side began the continental campaign in the Champions League is satisfied with how far they have reached.
“A very good one,” he replied when asked what he made of the continental campaign. “First of all, we played some very good football on the continent home and away,” he added.
“For me that’s very pleasing and as I have I said, we are an emerging force I think come next time, we are going to be different. We have a young team – average age 24 and the future is bright for us.
KCCA played a total of 12 games; six in the Champions League and as many in the Confederation Cup and became the first side from Uganda to reach the lucrative group stages introduced in early 2000s.
The club’s biggest undoing has been abysmal away form that has seen them lose all the six games, conceding 14 goals against just 3 scored with almost 90% of them coming inside the first 20 minutes.
Mutebi put that to lack of experience from his boys who were experiencing continental football for the first time.
We were short on experience. It’s a new thing to most of these players that’s why you see we concede in the first 15 minutes then after we have conceded, we start playing. It gets back to experience.
KCCA will play on the continent again next year after winning the league and cup double domestically and the outspoken manager says the lessons picked will be vital.
The good thing is that we are going to be back next year and I think the boys have picked up a lesson.
The Campaign
Overall, KCCA played 12 games, won 5, lost 6 and drew just one – the 1-1 draw at Lugogo against African champions Mamelodi Sundowns.
They have played against Primeiro de Agosto (Angola), Sundowns (South Africa), Al Masry (Egypt), Club Africain (Tunisia), FUS Rabat (Morocco) and Rivers United (Nigeria).
The 12-time league champions have scored 13 goals, 8 of which have come in the group stages and conceded 18, 12 of which have been at the group stages.
Mutebi’s side have kept just two clean sheets in the entire campaign but have only failed to score three times – in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.
