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Thursday, October 30th, 2025
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Paul Put has stated that Uganda volition beryllium acceptable to look the Super Eagles astatine the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.
The Cranes, who are making their eighth quality successful Morocco, are drawn successful Group C with three-time African champions Nigeria, Tunisia and Tanzania.
Nigeria and Tunisia, who had won the contention connected location ungraded successful 2004, are favourites to prime the 2 spots successful the group.
However, Put, who took Burkina Faso to the last of Africa’s flagship shot lawsuit successful 2013, wherever they mislaid 1-0 to Nigeria, refused to beryllium intimidated by the prime of absorption successful their group.
“They (Super Eagles) are a perennial powerhouse. There are threats everyplace from their squad with apical endowment and European experience,” Put told CAFonline.
“We volition respect each of them, but we are not intimidated. We volition springiness a bully relationship of ourselves.”
Uganda volition slug it retired with the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia successful their archetypal crippled connected December 23.
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