Browsing Month January, 2010
INTERVIEW: SC Villa is too broke to compete on continent
By Online Reporter at January 11, 2010 | 12:18 pm | 1 Comments
John Vianney Nsimbe Edward Luyimbazi Mugalu has been SC Villa secretary since 1975 and is probably the longest serving club secretary in World football. He spoke to John Vianney Nsimbe about his club’s most recent decision to pull out of this year’s continental CAF Confederation Cup and what lies ahead What’s the good thing you can boast of at SC Villa right more...
FLASHBACK: Uganda’s greatest goalies
By Online Reporter at January 10, 2010 | 11:55 am | 1 Comments
Hassan Badru Zziwa Goalkeeping is one of the hardest positions on the field yet one of the least appreciated. In that vein, Uganda has been blessed with several safe pairs of hands right from the colonial era that had the likes of Nafutari Musoke and John Agadi. That said, my rating of Uganda’s greatest custodians will start with the modern era of football from more...
ROBERT MADOI: Brian Umony shows how it’s done
By Online Reporter at January 6, 2010 | 12:09 pm | 0 Comment
Robert Madoi Theirs is your average chalk and cheese case. Whilst Brian Umony is meekness personified, Simon Serunkuma is his antithesis: the out-and-out exhibitionist. Serunkuma was anything but a flaunter when Col. Jackson Bell’s financial muscle lured him from the lower reaches of Ugandan football at Mutundwe Lions to Victors FC. He was just another impressionable more...
SC Villa in a fix
By Online Reporter at January 6, 2010 | 12:07 pm | 2 Comments
John Vianney Nsimbe As recent as January 3 when news of SC Villa Caf Confederation Cup withdrawal surfaced, Villa coach Sula Kato wasn’t aware of the decision to pull the club out of the continental competition. “I’m just hearing this for the first time from you,” he said. Yet the following day, the club secretary Edward Luyimbazi confirmed that the club was more...
