Uganda, March 30 -- If there is one thing that can be said with swaggering certainty about Ugandan football it is that over the years a hulking presence between the sticks has easily been the norm.

From Jamil Kasirye running Paul Ssali scared in the '70s to the little that there was to choose between Hussein Ssali and Sam Kawalya in the 2000s, the goalkeeping department has hardly been a pain point.

Yet in the post-Denis Onyango era it is an enormous mistake to insist-as some continue to do-that the situation has not taken a dramatic turn for the worse.

This rather grim outlook is a carryover from the club level where teams continue to beat a hasty retreat with home-grown goalkeeping talents despite taking a methodical approach to thei...