Miya assisting Cranes fly high

• Farouk Miya is joint-top scorer in Africa’s World Cup qualifiers
• Not nonetheless 20 years old, Miya is fast entrance his 50th general
• The striker spent half of final deteriorate on loan during Mouscron 

When a pull for a organisation proviso of a African FIFA World Cupâ„¢ qualifiers was made, Uganda was given small possibility of subordinate for Russia.

Farouk Miya though, will have nothing of it and dismisses any suggestions that he is a star actor out of hand. “There is no star actor in a team. That creates a organisation so strong. It is a togetherness that binds us and moulds us into a team,” he told FIFA.com in an disdainful interview.

Ugandan fans competence see it differently though. Drawn opposite former World Cup finalists Togo in a second spin of a qualifiers, Uganda did most of a tough work in a initial leg in Lome, winning 1-0. A nearby ability throng of 40,000 packaged a Mandela Stadium in a Ugandan collateral of Kampala for a lapse leg. And again a Cranes emerged victorious, this time 3-0.

Having competent for a organisation phase, Uganda was drawn into Group E, where they faced Ghana, Egypt and Congo. As a bottom seed in a group, not many gave a side a chance. “We were a underdogs. But that does not meant we did not trust in a chance,” pronounced Miya.

Their opening compare in Tamale, saw a side lapse to easterly Africa with a more-than-credible goalless pull opposite a Black Stars. Some 5 weeks later, Congo trafficked to Uganda, usually to be beaten 1-0. Thus, after dual matches played, Uganda has 4 points – second usually to Egypt who have six. Ghana has usually a point, while Congo is nonetheless to get off a mark.

Astonishingly, Uganda is a usually African side not to have conceded a singular idea so distant in their World Cup subordinate campaign. Their record reads: played four, won three, drawn one, mislaid none; goals scored: five, goals conceded none. And of those 5 goals, all though one were scored by Miya, that in spin is because fans are giving him most of a credit.

Confidence and belief
“As a team, we grew stronger when we kick Togo. They have already played during a World Cup and we gained in certainty when we modernized during their expense. Even when we were drawn into a same organisation as Egypt and Ghana, not to forget Congo, we still believed that we could go by to a World Cup.”

The 19-year-old, who plays his bar football in Belgium for Standard Liege, whom he assimilated from Vipers SC, says subordinate for a World Cup would be outrageous – not usually for a team, though for a whole country. “We have a support of a whole of Uganda and we so most wish to go to Russia for a fans. Qualifying for a World Cup would be a extensive achievement.”

With back-to-back fixtures entrance adult opposite a heading Pharaohs, Miya is wakeful that a organisation will have to be during their best. The charge will presumably not have been done any easier by a fact that manager Milutin ‘Micho’ Sredojevic left a nation a few weeks before a matches to join South African Premier League bar Orlando Pirates. In his place, Moses Basena and Fred Kajoba will lead a organisation into conflict opposite Egypt as halt coaches.

New instruction for Cranes
Miya does not trust a change-over will have a unpropitious outcome on a team. “Both coaches know a players and know how we play. we do not consider there will be most of a disproportion and we positively do not consider that a organisation will be weaker as a outcome of a manager leaving.”

Like his team-mates, Miya is gladdened to a Serbian Sredojevic, for heading a organisation to a CAF Africa Cup of Nations progressing this year. It was a initial time a side competent given 1978 and supposing a immature – though gifted – striker a possibility to play during a continental turn for a initial time.

“That already was like a dream come true. It was a good feeling to be means to play there. We mislaid during a finals in Gabon opposite Ghana and Egypt, so carrying drawn with a Black Stars in a qualifiers shows that we are stronger now than we were then.”

Miya, who is famous as ‘Muyizi Tasubwa’ (A hunter who can't miss), scored Uganda’s usually idea during a finals in Gabon, in a 1-1 pull opposite Mali. His goals in a World Cup qualifiers could take a organisation to an even bigger stage: The World Cup.

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2017/m=8/news=miya-helping-cranes-fly-high-2905349.html