Browsing Month August, 2010
Move with the times
By Mark My Word : By Mark Ssali at August 31, 2010 | 6:36 am | 0 Comment
It shouldn’t qualify as a saga but Mike Sserumaga’s supposed trip to South Africa days before Uganda takes on Angola in the 2012 Afcon qualifiers has assumed such notoriety. And when one hears that Cranes coach Bobby Williamson is fuming at reports purporting that his lead striker Geoffrey Massa is in Uganda and not Egypt, the exasperation sets in. A whole decade into more...
Villa secure home
By Online Reporter at August 30, 2010 | 6:38 am | 0 Comment
Yasser Kalyango Kampala SC Villa have secured office space in Muyenya, a Kampala suburb. The premises on plot 21-31 Tank hill Road, reportedly cost SC Villa over Shs300m. All clubs set to compete in next season’s Super League are required to have fully-operational offices and Villa seem to have taken a move in the right direction. “It’s a professional set-up, more...
Uganda Professional League takes shape
By Andrew Mwanguhya at August 22, 2010 | 6:38 am | 0 Comment
One inevitable and time-tested concept universally is change. It’s the truest notion that if you don’t catch up with it, it catches up with you, and possibly passes you by. It does happen all the time, no matter ones location. Saturday Monitor last weekend quoted veteran coach David Otti as having decried its delay, delayed positive change, in Ugandan more...
URA visit Express in USL opener
By James Ssekandi at August 18, 2010 | 6:38 am | 1 Comments
Kick-off (Sept. 17) Express v URA Kinyara v CRO Bunna v Masaka Maroons v Gulu Victors v KCC Police v Proline Fire Mastersv UTODA Sept. 21 Villa v Simba It’s fitting to have two of the biggest clubs in Ugandan football to usher in new era when the Uganda Super League kicks off next month. URA’s visit to Wankulukuku to face Express is the highlight of the more...
Villa Park pre-season trials attract 50
By Yasser Kalyango at August 16, 2010 | 8:00 am | 0 Comment
At least 50 players turned up on the opening day of pre season trials at SC Villa’s training ground - Villa Park on Friday. SC Villa, who finished a distant seventh in the Super League last season, are currently in a restructuring process and are using the trials to build a new team. Uganda’s most successful club spent the final bend of the season dealing with more...
INTERVIEW: Just who’s Fred Muwema?
By JOHN VIANNEY NSIMBE at August 8, 2010 | 4:33 am | 0 Comment
SC Villa, Uganda’s most successful club has been a sleeping giant of late – with only the 2009 Kakungulu Cup to show for since 2005. However, following Fred Muwema’s ascension to the helm in a major top-brass shakeup, there is renewed hope that the club, which has of recent made headlines for the wrong reasons, is about to wake up. But how much does the football more...
Battle for places heats up as Cranes host Zambia
By John Vianney Nsimbe at August 8, 2010 | 2:41 am | 0 Comment
In a match intended to separate boys from men as well as getting the national team in shape, Uganda takes on Zambia in an international football friendly this Wednesday at Namboole stadium. However, it is unlikely most of the foreign-based players will be available due to a number of factors ranging from tight schedules to injuries and transport irregularities. That more...
KCC FC has seen the light; Express next?
By Online Reporter at August 8, 2010 | 2:36 am | 0 Comment
Dennis Mbidde These are interesting times for Ugandan football. Just when all hope of a competitive domestic league had died down, a glimmer of light appeared at the end of the tunnel. At the forefront of it all is international governing body Fifa, which upon ordering a professionally run Super League opened doors of soul searching among the traditional giants. SC more...
TOP TEN: Golden heroes
By ROBERT MADOI and DAVID LUMU at August 8, 2010 | 1:38 am | 0 Comment
Gold medalists have been few and far between in Ugandan sport. ROBERT MADOI and DAVID LUMU look at the few that have captured the imagination of Ugandans. 1. Akii-Bua’s twin feats in Munich The story of John Akii-Bua’s gold medal-winning success at the 1972 Olympics in the German city of Munich is nothing short of remarkable. An unknown quantity at the time, it more...
