Government incentives, not money, will develop sports

Having taken over at the helm of Sports Club Villa, I have noticed that most key stakeholders in sports, including the government, are not clear on how to revamp the sector. As a result, the sector has hobbled from one stage of decline to another with a few unsustainable bright moments and yet every Financial Year, the government funds a sports budget though inadequately.

Move with the times

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.

Uganda Professional League takes shape

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.

URA visit Express in USL opener

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 opening day (September 17) as clubs, under the Uganda Super League (USL) Limited, start running their affairs independently.

INTERVIEW: Just who’s Fred Muwema?

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.

Battle for places heats up as Cranes host Zambia

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.

KCC FC has seen the light; Express next?

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.

Hoping that it’s no false dawn for Villa

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.

BADRU ZZIWA: PART II; How Villa became a soccer powerhouse

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 dominance.

Kizito signs for 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 Belgrade. Daily Monitor could not readily establish other details of the contract.

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