By Austin Oduor Otieno,

The Tanzanian National team, the Taifa stars today entered residential camp at the Tansoma hotel near the Prisons Headquarters to prepare for the AFCON match qualifier against the Pharaohs of Egypt.

The match will be played on June 14th 2015 at the Borg El Arab in Alexandria, Egypt.

The team that is sponsored by beer makers Kilimanjaro lager consists of the players that featured in  the just concluded COSAFA  championship, the close to twenty players who have been on camp for the last  one week and the foreign based players. This brings the number of those in camp to a record 42 players.

The close forty players   will be reduced to 23. The forty two players will start training at the Gymkhana tomorrow and at the National Stadium in Temeke for 2 days before travelling to  Addis Ababa in Ethiopia where they will camp for one week thereafter travel to Egypt for the opening game of the AFCON 2017 qualifiers.

The 42 players in camp named has a record 11 players from Yanga.The players in camp include the following:

Those that participated in the COSAFA championship included

Deogratius Munishi

Mwadini Ali

Shomari Kapombe

Oscar Joshua

Hajii Mwinyi

Aggrey Moris

Salum Mbode

Erasto Nyoni

Simon Msuva

Hassan Dilunga

Joram Mgeveke

Juma Liuzio

Said Ndemla

Mwinyi Kazimoto

Abdi Banda

John Bocco

Mrisho Ngasa

Salum Abubakar

Ibrahim Hajibu

Professional players include:

Thomas Ulimwengu

Mbwana Samata

Those that were already in the camp included

Nadir Haroub

Juma Abdul

Salum Telela

Junas Mkude

Hassan Isikaka

Mohammed Hussein

Aishi Manula

Frank Domayo

Mudathiri Yahya

Malimi Musungu

Benedict Tinoco

Rashid Mandana

Atupele Green

Emmanuel Simwanda

Said Mohammed

Andrew Vincent

Gadel Michael

Deus Kaseu

Meanwhile, the Tanzania has been invited by Rwanda for the Peace tournament from June 6th to 8th in Kigali. The U23 team will take part in the tournament and a team of 18 players will leave on 5th June for Kigali. They will be under Coach Salum Mayanja.

Collins Okinyo

Ex- CAF Media Expert. An expert on African football with over 15 years experience ,always with an ear to the ground with indepth knowledge of the game. I have worked for top publications including 7 years at www.supersport.com until i founded www.soka25east.com to quench the thirst of football lovers across the continent. I have trained young upcoming journalists who are now a voice in African football.I have covered World Cup,AFCON,CHAN,Champions League,Confederations Cup,Cecafa,Cosafa,Wafu and many other football tournaments across the World. Founder Football Africa Arena(FAA),Founder www.afrisportdigital.com