Browsing Month July, 2010
Hoping that it’s no false dawn for Villa
By James Ssekandi at July 31, 2010 | 4:40 pm | 0 Comment
With Ugandan club football bearing the brunt of a slow and steady decline, an urgent remedy is needed not to only catch up with the commercialisation of the beautiful game but also set up viable structures to aid development and organisation. There wouldn’t have been a better time to try another tangible attempt aimed at delivering the local game to the ‘Promised more...
Villa restructuring scheme to roll off
By Swalley Kenyi at July 29, 2010 | 6:07 pm | 0 Comment
SC VILLA needs up to sh200m for its activities next season, newly appointed chairman Fred Muwema said. Muwema, who is spearheading the restructuring of the club to run as a business entity, is poised to move a step higher and replace the current president Franco Mugabe. Mugabe has been boss of the 16-time record national league champions for over ten years. The club is more...
BADRU ZZIWA: PART II; How Villa became a soccer powerhouse
By Online Reporter at July 29, 2010 | 6:05 pm | 0 Comment
In the second of the three-part series about SC Villa, we look back at the golden years from 1982 to the sale of Majid Musisi SC Villa, having acquired full autonomy from Express, its proprietor Patrick Kawooya mapped strategies to transform the club into a force, noting that the club’s main priority was to compete with Express FC and break KCC FC’s football more...
Time to work hard, restore Villa’s past glory, says Muwema
By Yasser Kalyango at July 29, 2010 | 5:54 pm | 0 Comment
Newly appointed SC Villa Chairman Board of Directors Fred Elijah Muwema has called upon the Villa fraternity to work towards restoring the past glory at the club. Muwema made the remarks on Tuesday at the Sheraton’s Rwenzori Ball room. Fred Muwema, Franco Mugabe, Omar Mandela, William Nkemba, Adonia Ayebare, Edgar Agaba, Vincent Bagiire, Luyimbazi Mugalu, and Allan more...
Kizito signs for Partizan
By Andrew Mwanguhya at July 28, 2010 | 6:01 pm | 0 Comment
Years Club App (Gls)* 2000-03SC Villa75(1) 2004 FK Srem21(2) 2005-10 Vojvodina112(1) 2010- FK Partizan Uganda Cranes left back Nestroy Kizito can count himself a lucky man after signing for one of the biggest clubs in Serbia. The 28-year-old passed his medical just over a fortnight ago and has now signed a two-year deal with reigning Serbian champions, Partizan more...
Local football’s top transfers
By John Vianney Nsimbe at July 28, 2010 | 5:57 pm | 0 Comment
The Ugandan transfer rumour mill no longer attracts the frenzy it commanded in years gone by. In fact, the last time the local footballing fraternity was captivated by the close season transfer window was between November 2002 and January 2003 when the likes of Dan Wagaluka (Iganga to Villa), Tony Mawejje (Masaka to KCC) and Richard Malinga (KCC to Express) made more...
ROBERT MADOI: Unassuming Nestroy shows why it pays to be patient
By Robert Mado at July 28, 2010 | 5:53 pm | 0 Comment
Comparing Joseph Nestroy Kizito and Eugene Ssepuuya has always spawned a chalk and cheese scenario. Both erstwhile SC Villa and FK Vojvodina players, Nestroy and Ssepuuya presently find themselves at distinctly separate points on the professional football continuum. While Nestroy’s appetite has been whetted by the prospect of becoming the first Ugandan to play in the more...
Onyango moves
By Andrew Mwanguhya at July 26, 2010 | 6:05 pm | 0 Comment
From SuperSport United to Mpumalanga Black Aces may not be the best of moves. But for hitherto SuperSport United goalkeeper Denis Onyango, it signifies the end of an agonising month of a back and forth game, and presents yet another chance to show his true class. The Uganda Cranes shot-stopper ended his two-year stay at South African champions SuperSport after more...
SC Villa to re-brand
By Swalley Kenyi at July 26, 2010 | 5:50 pm | 0 Comment
AFTER a lax and deterioration in management at SC Villa that climaxed with a players’ sit down strike, the club today re-launches its image as a springboard to regain its past glory. New man on the block Fred Muwema is expected to take the mantle, replacing long serving president Franco Mugabe during the function in Kampala today. It will be a shift away from the more...
Fufa rejects new committee set-up
By James Ssekandi at July 22, 2010 | 6:02 pm | 0 Comment
Federation Uganda Football Association (Fufa) Limited aren’t about to relent to pressure amidst a pending Super League faction. According to the local soccer governing body’s publicist, Rogers Mulindwa, Fufa wants to see an independent league committee dissimilar of the newly established Uganda Super League (USL) board. “Let’s have a committee mixed with more...
