UGANDAN football fans have landed a March 2006 invitation to English Premiership side Aston Villa.

SC Villa's National Fans Coordinator Ben Immanuel Misagga told Daily Monitor that the club's envoy at Aston Villa, Mr Peter Sebuko, had secured an invitation for 50 fans to pay a courtesy visit to the English side.

"This is an opportunity for our local game to learn from the European sides about how fans are expected to behave on and off the pitch. We can't turn down this offer, we shall name fans to travel to Aston Villa," said Misagga.
The local fans are expected to pick up some knowledge on how Europeans organise their fans base that help raise funds for the club.

Misagga added that he wants to prove to Ugandans that fans are the major sources of funds for football clubs, but not necessarily through gate collections.
"These fans set up useful projects that raise funds that help in the running of the club's activities," he said.

Recently Misagga opened up agricultural projects in Mityana and Luwero to help raise funds for local giants SC Villa.
The projects include extensive maizeand rice farms from which SC Villa will earn fifty percent of the proceeds after the crop has been harvested and sold.

The crop is already assured of a mass buyer after the World Food Programme (WFP) agreed for Misagga to supply them with the harvest.