Your Letters
Sep 09, 2007
<b>Soccer pros better than <i>kyeyo</i></b><br>EDITOR — Let’s hope that the Nations Cup puzzle goes our way. Just imagine Uganda in Ghana? Our players will sign lucrative contracts in big European leagues. Do you have any idea the millions of dollars the Nigerian economy gets from hundreds of
Soccer pros better than kyeyo
EDITOR — Let’s hope that the Nations Cup puzzle goes our way. Just imagine Uganda in Ghana? Our players will sign lucrative contracts in big European leagues. Do you have any idea the millions of dollars the Nigerian economy gets from hundreds of their professional footballers in Europe?
It’s high time our government recognised this untapped natural resource and invested in sport. If Museveni is targeting the kyeyos (odd-job workers abroad) group, he needs to remember that while most kyeyos make on average $30,000 a year, a successful football professional in Europe makes on average $50,000 a week. So, get 100 Pros and you earn more than 5000 kyeyos, not mentioning the ripple effect from such well-established professionals.
Jude Mukiibi
KAMPALA
Strikers lacking!
EDITOR — I congratulate the Cranes for beating Niger in their last Nations Cup qualifier. One observation I however made was that we lack incisive strikers.
With effective marksmen, we would have buried the West Africans in Namboole and not depended on other countries — with their own self-interest — to help us qualify for the finals.
Ismael Adrabu
KOBOKO
Send your correspondence to: The Letters Editor, The New Vision, P.O. Box 9815, Kampala; or sports@newvision.co.ug; or deliver directly to the newspaper’s headquarters on Plot 19/21 First Street, Industrial Area, Kampala.
EDITOR — Let’s hope that the Nations Cup puzzle goes our way. Just imagine Uganda in Ghana? Our players will sign lucrative contracts in big European leagues. Do you have any idea the millions of dollars the Nigerian economy gets from hundreds of their professional footballers in Europe?
It’s high time our government recognised this untapped natural resource and invested in sport. If Museveni is targeting the kyeyos (odd-job workers abroad) group, he needs to remember that while most kyeyos make on average $30,000 a year, a successful football professional in Europe makes on average $50,000 a week. So, get 100 Pros and you earn more than 5000 kyeyos, not mentioning the ripple effect from such well-established professionals.
Jude Mukiibi
KAMPALA
Strikers lacking!
EDITOR — I congratulate the Cranes for beating Niger in their last Nations Cup qualifier. One observation I however made was that we lack incisive strikers.
With effective marksmen, we would have buried the West Africans in Namboole and not depended on other countries — with their own self-interest — to help us qualify for the finals.
Ismael Adrabu
KOBOKO
Send your correspondence to: The Letters Editor, The New Vision, P.O. Box 9815, Kampala; or sports@newvision.co.ug; or deliver directly to the newspaper’s headquarters on Plot 19/21 First Street, Industrial Area, Kampala.