AMBITION:Sredojevic can coach the Cranes AMAVUBI Coach Milutin Sredojevic a.k.a Micho has said that he wishes to coach the Ugandan national football side, The Cranes in his career but he was comfortable with his current job.
AMBITION:Sredojevic can coach the CranesAMAVUBI Coach Milutin Sredojevic a.k.a Micho has said that he wishes to coach the Ugandan national football side, The Cranes in his career but he was comfortable with his current job. In an interview with the Kampala based Tri-weekly, The Observer, Micho said, "I can coach Uganda one day but I have no plans to leave my job here. I’m comfortable and focused on Rwanda.”"I will always be Serunjogi (Name given to him by Ugandan football fans) and Uganda is my home.”He maintained that he was comfortable his current job. The 42-year-old replaced Sellas Tetteh who threw in the towel after a 5-0 thrashing by Ivory Coast in a 2012 Africa Nations Cup qualifier.Several other big names had been short listed for the job, including former Mali,Togo and current Nigeria Stephen Keshi, Patrice Neveu, Branko Smiljanic and Ratomir Djukovic, who guided Rwanda to their first and only Nations Cup finals, back in 2004.Micho was given the task of qualifying the wasps to the 2013 Nations Cup and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.Besides coaching SC Villa and St. George and Yanga (Tanzania), Micho had a brief stint with South Africa’s Orlando Pirates before joining Sudan’s Al Hilal last year. He went on to guide the Sudanese side to the semi-final of the Orange Confederation Cup where they finally lost to CS Sfaxien of Tunisia on penalties.Following the stalemate with Nigeria in Kigali, Micho said that the team still need improvements, "I work everyday to improve this team. I have to look for players from here and wide that are Rwandans that can be in the team for the long-term” "We don’t have much talent here, so I have to work extra hard to get this team to the top.” he told The Observer.