{"id":3672,"date":"2023-01-22T16:14:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2023-01-22T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T16:15:44","slug":"the-seventh-chan-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2023\/01\/22\/the-seventh-chan-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>The Seventh CHAN (Part Two)<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 22<sup>nd<\/sup> 2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Chipolopolo coach \u2018 The Serbian Wolf\u2019 Milutin Sredojevi\u0107 (Micho) returned to coach Uganda for the second time. In 15 matches Uganda had never won a match at a previous CHAN (African Nations Championship). That changed in Algeria\u2019s CHAN. They began with a 0-0 draw against the Democratic Republic of Congo. S\u00e9n\u00e9gal beat la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire 1-0 \u2013 Moussa Ndiaye scored the only goal in the 78<sup>th<\/sup> minute to top Group B after the first round of matches on January 14<sup>th<\/sup> in Annaba\u2019s May 19<sup>th<\/sup> 1956 Stadium.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" id=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Four days later the Democratic Republic of Congo held la C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire 0-0 before Micho\u2019s Uganda broke their CHAN duck with a 1-0 triumph over S\u00e9n\u00e9gal \u2013 Milton Karisa netted after 33 minutes. Table-topping Uganda will face the Ivorians at the Nelson Mandela Stadium tonight while S\u00e9n\u00e9gal face the 0-0 specialist DR Congo in Annaba in the final phase of Group B matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Validating the Document<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Micho outlined his approach to the tournament. \u201cBefore starting the competition we have talked to ourselves,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are having three cup finals, and now we are having in front of us the third cup final \u2026 whatever was good to keep up and upgrade it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cWhatever was wrong we need to correct and we are team that has huge space to improve and room to develop and this is what we are working on.\u201d Uganda has had its best CHAN to date, but they want more. That means Micho won\u2019t be looking past the Ivorians. He seeks to put the stamp on the document of the first two matches, as without it, he says, the document is not valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> The Stadium is named after a significant event in Algeria\u2019s independence struggle. On that day in 1956 Algerian students postponed their studies to take up arms for the Front de Lib\u00e9ration Nationale (FLN \u2013 the National Liberation Front) in Algeria\u2019s war against French colonialism. This war had a football context too \u2013 the famed FLN Team, which will be detailed in other articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 22nd 2023) Group B Former Chipolopolo coach \u2018 The Serbian Wolf\u2019 Milutin Sredojevi\u0107 (Micho) returned to coach Uganda for<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[329,166,121,330,331,327,326,328,325],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}