Rawand Amavubi for Senegal to Prepare for the Lonestar of Liberia



By HAMZA NKUUTU
Thursday, 21 September 2006

 
The national football team, The Amavubi Stars will camp in Dakar, Senegal for one week as part of the preparations for the Africa Nations Cup Ghana-2008 qualifier against Liberia next month, coach Michael Nees revealed yesterday. The camping, Nees asserted, is slated to take place a week before the team flies... to Liberia for their Africa Cup of nation qualifier game against the Lone Star in Monrovia.

    He said: “Everything is pre-arranged to train for a week in Senegal. We will be there for a week to acclimatize with the West African conditions and we’re planning to play one training game against a top team there'." What is remaining is only confirmation of which particular team we are going to play against. We are not plan less,” said he.

 Nees, 38, told Times Sport that this training camp in Senegal has not come up as a coincidence but was part of his initial training program.
The former Seychelles national football team head trainer, however, made it clear, the training game won’t be against the Lions of Terenga
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“Of course we are not going to play against Senegal because they’d also be busy with their own preparations but one thing for sure is that we’re going to play one game against a top side,” he emphasized.

The date of traveling to Senegal has not been set; however, given that the game against Liberia would be on October 8, the contingent should leave Kigali on September 31. The team has been in non residential training since Monday at Amahoro stadium, and would be expected to start residential training next Monday for a week before spending the final week in Senegal.

The coach sounded confident about having his full squad in Senegal including professionals for the Liberia game.