Foreign teams eye NSSF KAVC International Cup

Mar 26, 2015

Volleyball clubs from Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Sudan and Egypt are interested in challenging their counterparts in the East African region in the NSSF KAVC International Cup laterv this year.

By Swalley Kenyi

Volleyball clubs from Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Sudan and Egypt are interested in challenging their counterparts in the East African region in the NSSF KAVC International Cup laterv this year.

Egyptian clubs Somoha and Zamalek and; Sudan’s Al Nahda amd Daim Hamad, Support United (Zimbabwe) and FAP volleyball club from Cameroon are the clubs that have asked for invitations for them take part in 2015 edition of the Cup.

The Cup normally attracts big teams from Kenya, Rwanda and Burundi.

“The clubs asked for invitation for them to compete in the Cup in Kampala and we agreed. We have already given them invitations. I think it is good to have them because we always learn a lot from those teams from West and North Africa,” KAVC president Mofaht Masaba confirmed.

KAVC played against some of the clubs at the just concluded Men’s African Club Championship in Sousse, Tunisia and assistant coach Dannie Okwee said that Ugandan clubs would benefit from playing those teams regularly.

“They (clubs) are more organised than us technically and otherwise. So we need to interact to learn from them. For them to come down here is a blessing because it is very expensive for us to go to West or North Africa,” Okwee, who was with KAVC in Tunisia explained.

KAVC and Nemostars, who represented Uganda at the Men’s African Club Championship in Sousse, Tunisia, returned early this week. KAVC men, who managed to finish in the 19th place out of 24 teams, threw a welcome party of its players in Lugogo on arrival.

Uganda’s Sky VC men are the winners of the biggest Cup competition in the country.

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