By Francis Otucu

Allan Kateregga is the latest player to join Uganda Cranes camp in Abu Dhabi as the team continues with preparations for the 2019 Total AFCON Finals in Egypt.

The South Africa based midfielder who plays for PSL side Maritzburg arrived on Tuesday morning but did not take part in the training session as the team had already left for the stadium.

Two more players Emma Okwi and Nicholas Wadada will jet later today (8.1pm Local time, 7.15pm EAST) to bring the number to 24 in camp.

Bakka Alexis ( Carlstad United BK, Sweden), Lumala Abdul (Syrianska FC, Sweden), Kizito Luwagga (Shakhter Karagandy, Kazahstan) and Salim Jamal (Al Hilal-Sudan) are the players who have arrived in camp in the last 48 hours.

Luwagga and Jamal joined the rest of the team in training on Monday evening after undergoing the mandatory medcial tests. Kateregga, Bakka and Lumala will also have to visit the medical personnel in Abdu Dhabi for the exercise. Okwi and Wadada completed their medicals in Kampala.

The Squad in Abu Dhabi:

Goalkeepers: Denis Onyango (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa), Jamal Salim (Al Hilal-Sudan)

Defenders:  Murushid Jjuuko (Simba, Tanzania), Bevis Mugabi (Yeovil Town, England),
Isaac Muleme (FK Viktoria Zizkov, Czech Republic), Hassan Wasswa Mawanda, Joseph Ochaya (TP Mazembe, DR Congo), Timothy Denis Awanyi (KCCA FC, Uganda), Godfrey Walsumbi

Midfielders:  William Kizito Luwagga (Shakhter Karagandy, Kazahstan), Khalid Aucho (Church Hill Brothers, India), Faruku Miya (HNK Gorica, Croatia), Tadeo Lwanga (Vipers SC-Uganda), Kirizestom Ntambi- Coffee FC, Ethiopia), Allan Kateregga (Maritzburg, South Africa), Moses Waiswa Moses (Vipers SC, Uganda), Sadam Juma (KCCA FC-Uganda)

Strikers: Alexis Bbakka (Carlstad United, Sweden), Patrick Henry Kaddu (KCCA FC, Uganda), Derrick Nsibambi (Smouha, Egypt), Allan Kyambadde (KCCA FC Uganda)