Saidi Kyeyune (born 1 January 1993) is a Ugandan

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

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for

Uganda Revenue Authority SC Uganda Revenue Authority Football Club is a Ugandan football team based in Kampala. The club plays in the Ugandan Premier League and was founded in 1997. They have won the Ugandan Premier League four times and the Uganda Cup three times. Histor ...

and the Ugandan national team.

International career

In January 2014, coach Milutin Sedrojevic, invited him to be included in the

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for the

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. The team placed third in the group stage of the competition after beating

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, drawing with

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and losing to

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Uganda's goal tally first.''

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* Living people Uganda men's A' international footballers 2014 African Nations Championship players Ugandan men's footballers Proline FC players 1993 births Men's association football midfielders Uganda men's international footballers Footballers from Kampala Uganda Revenue Authority SC players 2020 African Nations Championship players {{Uganda-footy-bio-stub