Entebbe FC loses entire technial team

By Swalley Kenyi

Entebbe FC secretary general Rehema Nakabuye has clarified that her club head coach, Matia Lule and the assistant tactician, Andy Lule did not resign but were sacked after a poor performance in the Premier League that kicked off in September.

Lule had told the media that he resigned his job to save his own image because the club is poorly managed.

“This kind of situation falls back to my career as a coach. Apart from sh250,000 the club paid all the players at the beginning of the season, not even sign-on fees have been paid to the players. Officials of the team have continued to avoid us (technical staff),” Lule said.

He said that Entebbe FC officials had abandoned the team.

Lule said over the weekend that he and his entire coaching staff threw in the towel after the loss to Sports Club Villa last Friday because the club owners have never turned up at their training grounds let alone league matches.

Efforts to reach club director former FUFA vice president Anthony Kimuli were futile as he is reportedly in the United Kingdom but Nakabuye, who is his co-director, said that she personally sacked the coach for poor performance.

“Yes, we have not paid our players for two months (since the league started)  but it is because Kimuli is in the UK. We expect him on Friday (December 5) and they will be paid. But for us the coach and his assistant (Andy Lule) were sacked for poor performance,” Nakabuye insisted.

In an exclusive interview with New Vision, Lule revealed that the club does not even have basic training equipment like balls and training kits and that he finds it difficult to coach in such a situation.

“You can’t imagine a whole premier league club with only two footballs for training. It has been depending on my own balls,” Lule added.

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