23 November 2021 | Basketball

The Federation of Uganda Basketball Associations (FUBA) has confirmed that Uganda's senior men’s national team (Silverbacks) will not compete at the upcoming first window of the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.

Lack of funds was cited as the reason for not travelling to Angola's western city of Benguela for the November 26-28 event.

“The Federation of Uganda Basketball Association (FUBA) on a very sad note wishes to inform you that the Senior Men’s National Basketball team (the Silverbacks) will not compete at the FIBA World cup qualifiers window 1 in Benguela (Angola) from 26th to 28th of November 2021,” FUBA President Nasser Sserunjogi said in a statement.

“FUBA was informed Government of Uganda through National Council of Sports (NCS) that there was no money to support the team for this particular campaign. The team needed approximately 380 million to make the trip.”

It should be noted that the team put up a splendid performance at the AfroBasket finals in Kigali (Rwanda) recently where they made the quarterfinals, before finishing No. 6 overall.

The Silverbacks had already embarked on preps for the window and have been training at the African Bible College in Lubowa.

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