Browsing Month September, 2003
Probe gets Shs 5 million
By Online Reporter at September 30, 2003 | 2:59 pm | 0 Comment
By Fredrick Musisi Kiyingi The National Council of Sports (NCS) has secured Shs 5m to facilitate the new probe committee investigating corruption in Ugandan football. Mr Jasper Aligawesa, the NCS vice chairman, disclosed to The Monitor that league sponsors Nile Breweries Ltd gave the committee Shs2.5 m last week, and NCS has added the same amount. “ We need to more...
Villa, Express plan raid on the market
By Online Reporter at September 20, 2003 | 3:15 pm | 0 Comment
The Cecafa club champions say there are no players to buy on the local scene and they intend to recruit from across the borders for next season. Sources say that SC Villa is pairing up with George Weah and the Fifa agent handling Kizito Nestory, Phillip Ssozi and other Villa players. They have identified five Liberian national team players for recruitment next season. more...
Support football probe committee
By Online Reporter at September 20, 2003 | 2:40 pm | 0 Comment
The National Council of Sports made a strong statement this week when they named a committee of five to investigate the crisis in Ugandan football. They could have done just like Fufa and named a questionable committee similar to the one the National Football League Committee set up to investigate the controversial SC Villa-Akol game played at Namboole on August more...
Clubs divided by Obua decision
By Online Reporter at September 13, 2003 | 3:02 pm | 0 Comment
By Muhammad M. Dhakaba KAMPALA - Fufa President Denis Obua’s decision to go against his executive committee has caused divisions among the clubs. The Fufa executive on Wednesday upheld the Godfrey Kwizera led National Football League Committee (NFLC) probe committee’s decision to declare SC Villa the 2003 champions but Mr Obua overturned the decision. Obua more...
Referees at centre of bribery scandal?
By Online Reporter at September 13, 2003 | 3:00 pm | 0 Comment
In this final part on the rot in Ugandan football, RICHARD M. KAVUMA AND HUSSEIN BOGERE peep into the bribery scandal surrounding the climax of title race between SC Villa and Express: - KAMPALA - The current crisis in Ugandan football reached a new low with the resignation of the referees association chairman Aggrey Kibenge on September 3. Fufa late last year more...
Football made in Uganda, How FUFA works: Part II
By Online Reporter at September 12, 2003 | 3:02 pm | 0 Comment
By Richard M. Kavuma & Hussein Bogere KAMPALA – The Federation of Uganda Football Associations, Fufa, began in 1924 as Uganda Football Association and was affiliated to world governing body, Fifa, in 1958. Today, Fufa runs the game in the country, as an umbrella grouping of smaller interest groups like the Super Division clubs, referees as well as district more...
Football made in Uganda: Part I: How it all started
By Online Reporter at September 11, 2003 | 3:00 pm | 0 Comment
FUFA CORNER CORNER -- With Hassan Badru Zziwa The Uganda Sports Press Association recently imposed a blackout on covering football activities in Uganda, until a committee has been appointed to investigate allegations of match fixing and corruption in this year's Nile Special Super League. The Monitor newspaper has since withdrawn from that blackout with the more...
SC Villa declared 2003 champions, now in Kakungulu Cup semi-finals
By Online Reporter at September 10, 2003 | 3:14 pm | 0 Comment
SC Villa 2 Top TV 0 (SC Villa win 3-0 on aggregate) The Fufa executive yesterday declared SC Villa the 2003 National League Champions during a heated meeting at the federation’s headquarters. SC Villa tied with Express on 72 points but boast a superior goal difference. The National Football League Committee had already declared SC Villa champions, based on the more...
Nestory off to France
By Online Reporter at September 10, 2003 | 2:26 pm | 0 Comment
Cranes and SC Villa left back Nestory Kizito yesterday left the country for France where he will have trials with first division club Bastia. Kizito, who only recently recovered from a long-term injury, will have one month of trials at a club that has been monitoring him since January. Bastia watched Kizito throughout the Cecafa Club Championship in Kampala, won by more...
SC Villa declared innocent
By Online Reporter at September 9, 2003 | 3:16 pm | 0 Comment
A committee set up by the National Football League Committee (NFLC) to probe alleged wrongdoing after SC Villa’s 22-1 goal win against a 9-man Akol team has finally published its findings that found our club innocent of any corruption or wrongdoing. The NFLC has consequently declared SC Villa the 2003 champions. We however now understand that there is a plot by Fufa more...
