Uganda, Feb. 20 -- Coach Shery Botes has just about two weeks to work with 48 players and determine the 18 that will represent Uganda in the women's football category at the 13th edition of the March 8-24 All Africa Games in Ghana.

The selection to this six edition of the women's competition promises to be so complex that Botes had to renegade on her word of trusting some U-17 players like Agnes Nabukenya and Shadia Nabirye by not summoning them. Even the Teen Cranes goalkeeper Lillian Nakiirya, who looks like a generational talent, has not been summoned to the U-20 squad and neither has Desire Katisi Natooro, who has been summoned to the senior national team before.

Almost all players that represented Uganda in the 2024 and 2022 Fifa U...