{"id":35516,"date":"2017-07-30T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T14:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/micho-terminates-contract-with-fufa-as-uganda\/"},"modified":"2017-07-30T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T14:47:18","slug":"micho-terminates-contract-with-fufa-as-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/micho-terminates-contract-with-fufa-as-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Micho terminates contract with FUFA as Uganda Cranes head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{\u201cI had no reason to resign but I have a million and one reasons for termination of contract\u201d were the key words that Milutin \u2018Micho\u2019 Sredejovic stressed as he bid farewell to Uganda a country he has served since 21st May 2013 when he signed the contract with FUFA.}<\/p>\n<p>According toUgandan online sports website Kawowo, Sredojevic confirmed the termination of the employment contract on Saturday, 29th July 2017 during a fully packed press conference held at Pine Hotel, Kabira Country Club in Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Clad in an all blue jeans attire with a brown pair of shoes and the trade mark brief case, Micho addressed the media personnel for close to two hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is 50 months today since I was signed to work for Uganda Cranes. I have unreserved love for Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the contract was terminated on Friday, 28th July 2017 at 8 p.m after disrespect of my values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Privileged to work in Uganda<\/p>\n<p>Micho openly hinted on the golden opportunity in the process of his execution for the work tasks in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I felt privileged to work in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>I was always wishing to deliver something. That of making millions of Ugandans happy.<br \/>\nI did everything under full accountability, transparency and confidence. A million apologies to Ugandans<\/p>\n<p>Remorseful<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the press conference, Micho expressed elements of bitterness about the decision taken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have loved to take the team to the World Cup in Russia. This is not possible unfortunately. I have stretchered human and practical limits with FUFA. I have my values which needed to be respected. I had never even missed any training session with Uganda Cranes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appreciation<\/p>\n<p>The former FC Palic midfielder showered special praise to the current and previous FUFA regimes, players, fans and sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>He appreciated the technical team members he worked with, all the national team captains.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank all the captains I have worked with. Andy Mwesigwa, Geofrey Massa, Dennis Onyango, Tonny Mawejje and many others.<\/p>\n<p>All Uganda Cranes players I have worked with have a presidential suite in my heart.\u201d<br \/>\nNext destiny<\/p>\n<p>Hinting on 8 concrete offers, with Uganda the 9th, Micho, at the moment can not reveal his next destiny although all links indicate a possible move to Orlando Pirates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{\u201cI had no reason to resign but I have a million and one reasons for termination of contract\u201d were the key words that Milutin \u2018Micho\u2019 Sredejovic stressed as he bid farewell to Uganda a country he has served since 21st May 2013 when he signed the contract with FUFA.} According toUgandan online sports website Kawowo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35516"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35516"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}