SC VILLA National Fans Coordinator Ben Immanuel Misagga has called on soccer fans to vote for members of parliament who are willing to change the Ugandan football game into a professional one.

Recently Misagga had gone on a witch-hunting mission for West Africans for the Jogoos, but the players refused citing an amateur league in Uganda. "Unless our league is turned professional, we shall not have star players in our clubs and thus the standards of the game will remain low," he added.

Misagga had hired a technical person to scout in Zambia, Sierra Leone and Malawi, but no result has been attained to date. "I sent a technical person to those countries , but he was ignored because the league in Uganda is still amateur," he added.

He said no serious football player can leave a professional league to join an amateur one unless he has no club. He called upon soccer fans to vote for only members of parliament who will help lobby for the change of the football format in the country.

Newly selected Express coach George Semwogerere, fresh from Tanzania also hinted at the same issue of turning the league into a professional one recently.