Uganda’s Soccer Federation (FUFA) has appointed Ethiopian coach Asefa Firew Hailegebreal as the brand new head coach of the nation’s girls’s nationwide groups.
Hailegebreal was formally unveiled on Friday on the FUFA Headquarters in Mengo, Kampala, taking cost of the Crested Cranes, Queen Cranes and Teen Cranes.
The Ethiopian has signed a two-year contract and returns to a well-recognized setting after spending the previous two seasons answerable for Kampala Queens, now referred to as KCCA Ladies.
Throughout his time with Kampala Queens, Hailegebreal guided the membership to success in each the FUFA Ladies Tremendous League and the FUFA Ladies’s Cup, establishing himself as one of many notable coaches in Uganda’s girls’s soccer.
Earlier than transferring to Uganda, Hailegebreal labored with Ethiopia’s girls’s nationwide groups at each senior and junior ranges.
He takes over from Sheryl Botes Ulanda, whose contract with FUFA was not renewed.
The brand new coach instantly faces a serious task with Uganda making ready for an Olympic qualifying encounter towards Zambia this month.
The Crested Cranes will host the primary leg on 8 October at Hamz Stadium, earlier than travelling to Lusaka for the return fixture the next weekend.
Hailegebreal will due to this fact have little time to settle into his new position as Uganda appears to be like to navigate the Olympic qualification tie and proceed constructing its girls’s nationwide groups.
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