CAF Champions League (2nd Leg – Preliminary Round):
- Leones Vegetarianos (Equatorial Guinea) 1-1 Gor Mahia (Kenya)
*Gor Mahia qualified 3-1 on aggregate
Uganda Cranes left back Godfrey ‘Jjaja Walu’ Walusimbi was part of the Gor Mahia team that played to a one all draw with Leones Vegetarianos in Equatorial Guinea on Wednesday.
Walusimbi played full time in the return leg of the away duel away in Malabo.
Since the first leg had ended 2-0 in favour of the K’Ogalo in Nairobi, the Kenyan club qualified to the next stage on a 3-1 aggregate.
as Gor is nicknamed carried a healthy 2-0 first half win into the return match and needed any draw, a 1-0 loss or any win to sail through to the penultimate round before the groups’ stage.
Walusimbi and the rest of his fellow Gor Mahia teammates will face Tunisia’s Esperance du Tunis in the first round.
Esperance humbled Mauritania’s ASAC Concorde 5-0 to win 6-1 on aggregate during the preliminary round.
In 2014, Esperance beat Gor Mahia 3-2 in Nairobi and 5-0 in Tunis to make it 8-2 on aggregate.
In 1987, Gor knocked out Esperance on away goal’s rule to win the CAF Winners’ Cup (former Mandela Cup).
Ivan Ntege and Robert Odongkara are two other Ugandans assured of playing CAF Champions league football at the next round.
Ntege was part of the Township Rollers Team that lost 2-1 to Sudan’s Al Merriekh but qualified 4-3 on aggregate.
St George did not play with Al Hilal and got a bye to the next round where they will face Uganda’s representatives, KCCA at the first round.
Results:
Tuesday, 20 February 2018
- Williamsville AC (Cote d’Ivoire) 1-0 Stade Malien (Mali) (1-1)
- Olympic de Bangui (Central African Republic) 0-0 ES Setif (Algeria) (0-6)
- El Hilal (Sudan) 3-0 LISCR (Liberia) (0-1)Wednesday, 21 February 2018
- KCCA (Uganda) 1-0 CNaPs Sport (Madagascar) (1-2)
- Mbabane Swallows (Swaziland) 1-3 Bantu (Lesotho) (4-2)
- Aduana (Ghana) 2-0 El Tahadi (Libya) (0-1)
- Mounana (Gabon) 2-0 RC Kadiogo (Burkina Faso) (0-1)
- MFM (Nigeria) 1-0 AS Real (Mali) (1-1)
- MC Alger (Algeria) 9-0 AS Otoho (Congo) (0-2)
- Horoya (Guinea) 0-0 AS FAN (Niger) (3-1)
- Makkassa (Egypt) 0-0 Generation Foot (Senegal) (0-2)
- Saint Louis (Seychelles) 1-1 Young Africans (Tanzania) (0-1)
- El Merreikh (Sudan) 2-1 Township Rollers (Botswana) (0-3)
- Leones Vegatarianos (Equatorial Guinea) 1-1 Gor Mahia (Kenya) (0-2)
- Esperance (Tunisia) 5-0 Concorde (Mauritania) (1-1)
- Eding Sport (Cameroon) 0-1 Plateau United (Nigeria) (0-3)
- AS Port (Togo) 2-1 (4-3 pen) AC Leopards (Congo) (1-2)
- Zesco (Zambia) 7-0 JKU (Zanzibar) (0-0)
- ASEC Mimosas (Cote d’Ivoire) 3-2 Buffles (Benin) (1-1)
- UD Songo (Mozambique) 2-0 Ngaya (Comoros) (1-1)
- Be Forward (Malawi) 1-2 AS Vita (DR Congo) (0-4)
- FC Platinum (Zimbabwe) 1-2 Primeiro de Agosto (Angola) (0-3)
- Pamplemousses (Mauritius) 1-0 Bidvest (South Africa) (0-2)
- Difaa El Jadida (Morocco) 10-0 Benfica (Guinea Bissau)
- Benfica (Guinea Bissau) 0-0 Difaa El Jadida (Morocco) (0-10)
- Lydia Academic (Burundi) 0-1 Rayon Sports (Rwanda) (1-1)