Browsing Month August, 2003
City Tyres injects Shs 48m
By Online Reporter at August 30, 2003 | 2:41 pm | 0 Comment
By Douglas D. Bugingo City Tyres Managing Director Ahmed Abdullahi has said that his company will this year boost the City Tyre Junior Soccer League with a total of Shs 48 million. Mr Abdullahi made the revelation while speaking to the press at the company's headquarters on Nasser Road at the official launching of the City Tyres U-14 Junior Soccer League. City more...
Villa score record 22!
By Online Reporter at August 28, 2003 | 3:19 pm | 0 Comment
By Moses Mugalu Villa 22 AKOL 1 Masaka 0 Express 2 Kinyara 1 Police 2 Hakim Magumba hit seven goals yesterday to set a new record for goals in a single match, in SC Villa's 22-1 defeat of 9-man AKOL in a Nile Special Super League game at Namboole. The scoreline is another new record on a bizarre evening in Ugandan football. It was chaotic in Masaka as well, more...
Pasculli gets Cranes job
By Online Reporter at August 28, 2003 | 2:54 pm | 0 Comment
Hassan Badru Zziwa Argentine World Cup winning player Pablo Pedro Pasculli has beaten two tacticians to the top Uganda Cranes job. Pasculli beat Togolese Tchcanile Bonna and Slovenia's Vosajh Scheich to win the Shs 6 million-a-month job. In other words, the local federation upheld the technical committee's recommendation. Pasculli, Vosajh and Tchcanile more...
Does the local league begin or end tonight?
By Online Reporter at August 23, 2003 | 3:25 pm | 0 Comment
It has been a week of off-the-pitch battles by arch-rivals SC Villa and Express FC. The two accuse each other of match-fixing. But the league committee has come out and shuffled the fixtures. Now the two teams travel upcountry, but are today's matches title deciders? Hassan Badru Zziwa ponders. The Nile Special Super League either begins or ends tonight, depending on more...
Villa, Express take their war upcountry
By Online Reporter at August 23, 2003 | 3:25 pm | 0 Comment
By Moses Mugalu The Nile Special Super League (NSSL) title race rages on with champions SC Villa and challengers Express FC back in action today. AKOL vs Express Lira Municipal Stadium: Bana Zidane gets back his starting role in central defence as Express FC take on relegated AKOL in a match the Red Eagles must win to keep their title dream alive. For the more...
Double header for SC Villa, Express
By Online Reporter at August 23, 2003 | 3:24 pm | 0 Comment
By Fredrick Musisi Kiyingi The Nile Special Super League is set for a double-header grand finish on Thursday September 4. SC Villa and Express are battling for the league title this season. SC Villa travels to Masindi to face Kinyara while Express take on Top TV at Nakivubo that day. This was disclosed by Mr Godfrey Kwizera, Fufa's vice president more...
Adventure in Belgium
By Online Reporter at August 23, 2003 | 3:21 pm | 0 Comment
SC Villa and Cranes midfielder Phillip Ssozi has just returned from his professional trials with Belgian side Ghent. The utility player's ambitions were hit by an injury, as he told Fredrick Musisi Kiyingi. Q: How were your trials in Belgium? A: My first training session was in the afternoon. I joined the first team in physical training. And the next few days it was more...
Storm at Lugogo, Wankulukuku
By Online Reporter at August 23, 2003 | 3:20 pm | 0 Comment
KCC The storm is back at Lugogo. Divisions in the executive intensified last week as some officials drew guns, and Coach Abbey Nassur has been accused of 'sabotage.' In a bizarre incident last Saturday, a former player and team manager (name withheld) allegedly drew a gun on Aldrine Nsubuga (a key member of the pressure group which ousted the old executive) and vowed more...
Storm at Lugogo, Wankulukuku
By Online Reporter at August 23, 2003 | 3:20 pm | 0 Comment
KCC The storm is back at Lugogo. Divisions in the executive intensified last week as some officials drew guns, and Coach Abbey Nassur has been accused of 'sabotage.' In a bizarre incident last Saturday, a former player and team manager (name withheld) allegedly drew a gun on Aldrine Nsubuga (a key member of the pressure group which ousted the old executive) and vowed more...
Kasongo to Moleebek Brussels, injured Ssozi returns home
By Online Reporter at August 15, 2003 | 2:26 pm | 0 Comment
Nkemba in America SC Villa and Uganda Cranes striker Gonzaga Ekotchu Kasongo is finally set for his long-awaited trials in Belgium. Kasongo is leaving on Monday, August 18, to join the second division Belgian side, FC Molenbeek Brussels, whose home ground is Stade Edmond Machtens. At Moleebek, Kasongo is joining fellow former Congolese countryman and now Rwandan more...
