Memorial Soccer On

Aug 24, 2002

TEN teams including The New Vision will battle in a memorial soccer tournament for four leading sports journalists who died last year.

By William Muwonge TEN teams including The New Vision will battle in a memorial soccer tournament for four leading sports journalists who died last year. Kampala-based OB Association, that brings together young professionals and non-professionals interested in soccer, is behind the tournament that will be held at Lugogo grounds. The theme of the event is: “In remembering them, we hope to continue their legacies”. The four journalists —The New Vision’s Leo Kabunga, Peter Ekarot and Kenneth Matovu and Francis Batte Jr from The Monitor died on August 28 last year. The scribes met their death in a road accident at Lugazi as they were driving back to Kampala.Ends

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