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Uganda has called off the international friendly with Trinidad and Tobago because they have not got any positive response from their Caribbean colleagues.

FUFA chief executive Edgar Watson told a weekly press conference at Mengo Wednesday that the match would not take place because they could not prepare for a game whose details were vague.

“ I wonder how the fixture got onto the FIFA calendar because we had not concluded with them. I wrote to them (Trinidad and Tobaggo) and never got any responses,” Watson argued.

In July he wrote to the Trinidad and Tobago football federation requesting the Caribbean country to host the Cranes for a friendly match in their capital Port-of-Spain but had no respond.

It is believed that after receiving the proposal from FUFA, Trinidad and Tobago instead wrote to FIFA asking the global soccer governing body to designate November 17 for the match in Kampala.

This is partly because they have also got a proposal to play another friendly match with the Amavubi Stars of Rwanda on November 23.

Watson said that they have now written to three other countries outside Africa to play friendly matches with the Cranes before their next Africa Cup of Nations Qualifier against Guinea-Bissau in March next year.

The Cranes next focus is the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup that will run between November 27 and 13 December in Dar es Salam, Tanzania.