Michael Azira is a soft-spoken, mannerly and altogether pleasant individual. When we met to chat, someone in the sparsely populated room wasn’t instantly recognizable. Before we began, he went over, politely introduced himself and accompanied his greeting with a warm handshake.
You get the impression he is someone very happy with his lot, grateful for the life and opportunity, soccer, hard work and study has provided for him, wife Callaghan and family.
But family life had to be put on hold for a month recently after being selected by Uganda coach Sebastien Desabre to represent his country at the African Cup of Nations, despite not taking part in any of the qualifying campaign.