Browsing Month April, 2003
Many in departure lounge
By Online Reporter at April 30, 2003 | 3:16 pm | 0 Comment
By Moses Mugalu Nestory Kizito is on his way to Europe as more Villa players are being prepared for professional careers, according to Villa Park Manager Sredojevic 'Micho' Milutin. Kizito is going to have professional trials at Bastia, a First Division club in France. The left fullback becomes the third player in less than two months to go for trials in Europe. more...
Declare league null and void
By Online Reporter at April 30, 2003 | 2:56 pm | 0 Comment
FUFA CORNER CORNER -- With Hassan Badru Zziwa It started like idle talk in The Monitor offices on Wednesday. Colleagues mocked Liverpool fans, by advising them to whisper to their manager Gerald Houllier to apply for a dead year. As it turns out, it is Uganda that ought to apply to the world football governing body Fifa, for a dead year. The Nile Special more...
Still on top with 36 points
By Online Reporter at April 23, 2003 | 3:09 pm | 0 Comment
SC Villa 2 URA 0 The fighting spirit imbued in the players by head coach Sredojevic Milutin ‘Micho’ paid dividends yesterday when Edgar Watson and Ekutchu Gonzaga Kasongo finally ripped the seemingly solid URA defence apart late in the second half of the Nile Special League match at Namboole. Their two goals in the 76th and 84th minutes guaranteed a 2-0 win over more...
Rasta Rob hails players
By Online Reporter at April 23, 2003 | 2:32 pm | 0 Comment
Rasta Rob, the former DJ and motor rally driver in Kampala, has hailed SC Villa for beating Angola's AS Aviacao in Africa Champions League and for winning the 2003 Cecafa Club Championships. "Tell all the Jogoo players and fans that I love them all. Congratulations upon winning the Cecafa trophy and beating AS Aviacao. Have one on me today at the Golden Table," Rasta more...
Team back in camp: Kazini hosts players
By Online Reporter at April 21, 2003 | 3:11 pm | 0 Comment
SC Villa Vs URA The team returned to residential training on Monday ahead of the April 27 Africa Champions League match against Angola's AS Aviacao at Namboole. Before that SC Villa face Jackson Mayanja URA in a Nile Special League at Namboole today. Charges have been set at Shs 3,000 and 5,000 for the match against URA. The charges for Sunday's Africa Champions more...
Micho, Isabirye’s prayers
By Online Reporter at April 20, 2003 | 3:10 pm | 0 Comment
Alex Isabirye not only notches in important goals for SC Villa, he is also perhaps the most religious player in the club. And it would seem The Lord listens to the "super sub" whenever he prays. In Luanda just hours before SC Villa played Angola's AS Aviacao and won 1-2 in the Africa Champions League (C1) on April 13, God answered Alex's prayers. Alex, one of the more...
How SC Villa triumphed in Luanda
By Online Reporter at April 14, 2003 | 8:57 am | 0 Comment
LUANDA, Almost everyone, except themselves, expected the Nile Special League and Cecafa champions to be walloped in the Africa Champions League by Angola´s AS Aviacao in Luanda. The SC Villa squad of 18 however had two secret "weapons of destruction". The first weapon was their Yugoslav tactician Sredejovic Milutin Micho who had done his homework on the Angolan more...
Tumusiime out with broken leg
By Online Reporter at April 6, 2003 | 3:26 pm | 0 Comment
Top TV 0 SC Villa 2 A win is a win, but for once SC Villa fans would have preferred to lose to Top TV if that would have saved defender Robert Tumusiime's leg. Tumusiime suffered a broken leg on Saturday 6 April during the Nile Special Super League match at Wankulukuku -- casting a sombre over the entire SC Villa fraternity. Tumusiime's leg is in plaster and will more...
30 sweet points!
By Online Reporter at April 4, 2003 | 3:28 pm | 0 Comment
SC Villa 4 Kinyara 0 Thursday brought the 10th straight win of the current season as the Boys beat Kinyara Sugar Works 4-0 to rightly claim top spot in the Nile Special Super League. The goals came from Alex Isabirye, Ekotchu Kasongo (a brace) and Vincent Tendwa to give SC Villa 30 points from 10 matches. In all, the Villa goal grabbers have scored 21while the more...
