The Cranes' trip to Egypt for an International build-up game has been confirmed with the hosts sending air tickets, Monday afternoon.

FUFA General Secretary Haruna Mawanda told The Monitor yesterday that 18 tickets have been sent, but are expecting more to bring the number to 25.

"The team will fly out August 18 on an Ethiopian Airlines flight and play the game on August 20," Mawanda said.

This will be the second last international build-up for the Cranes before they take on the Black Stars of Ghana on Sept. 7 in an Africa Nations Cup 2004 qualifier in Kampala. The team winds-up the build-ups against Zambia on August 31 in Kampala.

The Cranes are yet to enter residential camp. The team was supposed to enter camp at Lugogo on Monday, but FUFA did not have the money.

The team that played Kakungulu Cup holders Express FC last evening in a build-up game is now slated to enter camp tomorrow. The Cranes have already had a couple of build-up games with Police FC, Hallelujah FC of South Korea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Kenya and Chemelii FC, a Kenyan Premier League side.

Meanwhile, reports from Accra, Ghana indicate that the national team under new Coach Millan Zivadinovic resumed training, Monday ahead of their game with the Cranes. The team that reached the quarter-finals of the 2002 Nations Cup finals in Mali will this time round concentrate on home based players for the game. The bulk of the local players called-up are from Liberty Professionals, Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko. Hearts of Oak have two of their goalkeepers; Sammy Adjei and James Nanor, together with Charles Taylor and Edmund Copson. Liberty Professionals have Daniel Yeboah, Emmanuel Pappoe, Jonathan Quartey, John Paintsil and Alfred Nii Larbi Darko.

Asante Kotoko has; Osei Boateng, Joe Hendricks, Hamza Mohammed and Nana Arhin-Duah. Others are Akerem Weah, Agbadu Kasami and Alex Kyeremanteng all of Real Tamale United, Felix Yeboah and Mutalim Abdul both of Hasaacas, Princeton Owusu-Ansah and Solomon Laryea of Goldfields and Great Olympics' Paa Joe Kumah. The rest are Asare Nyarko of Okwawu United, B.A. United's goalkeeper, Issac Amoako, Edward Sosu of Power FC and the King Faisal's duo of Iddrisu Yahaya and Stephen Debrah