12 teams qualify for U-16 league
Dec 23, 2003
TWELVE teams have qualified for the Shell U-16 champions league football tournament that will be held early next year at Old Kampala Secondary School.
By Phillip Corry in Kampala
and Joseph Wanzusi in Mbale
TWELVE teams have qualified for the Shell U-16 champions league football tournament that will be held early next year at Old Kampala Secondary School.
Mbarara, Bushenyi, Mukono, Lugazi, Mbale, Sironko, Masaka A and B, Fort Portal, Hoima, Central Yellow, Central Blue and Makindye will be in action as the knockout league sponsored by Shell oil company kicks-off on January 10-11 at Old Kampala.
Mbale qualified to represent Elgon region after Zam Zam beat Tororo's Challenger and Sironko Town Council youth teams at Mbale Municipal Stadium.
Fifteen boys from Mbale and five from Sironko and Tororo districts will make the Elgon region team.
The youth soccer tournament has attracted over 200 boys from all over the country.
Friends of Football (FOF), organisers of the youth football event, have decided that South Western region will comprise six boys from Rukungiri and five from Bushenyi.
Mbarara, winners of the South Western region, will enter seven boys to form one team for the region.
Masaka will enter two teams — Masaka A and B. Six boys from Fort Portal, winners of the Western region, have been chosen while Hoima and Masindi have had 18 selected from their districts to form one team for Western region.
Petroleum giant Shell has injected sh73m into the youth league.
Arua U-16, as a guest team, will represent West Nile region.
The teams from Nile region (Jinja, Iganga and Kamuli) will play their regional tournament on December 28 in Jinja to determine who represents the region in the champions league.
*Godfrey Masa netted a lone goal in the first half as Mbale Heroes edged visiting Kenyan Second Division side Boca Juniors in an international friendly match played at Mbale Municipal Stadium on Sunday.
and Joseph Wanzusi in Mbale
TWELVE teams have qualified for the Shell U-16 champions league football tournament that will be held early next year at Old Kampala Secondary School.
Mbarara, Bushenyi, Mukono, Lugazi, Mbale, Sironko, Masaka A and B, Fort Portal, Hoima, Central Yellow, Central Blue and Makindye will be in action as the knockout league sponsored by Shell oil company kicks-off on January 10-11 at Old Kampala.
Mbale qualified to represent Elgon region after Zam Zam beat Tororo's Challenger and Sironko Town Council youth teams at Mbale Municipal Stadium.
Fifteen boys from Mbale and five from Sironko and Tororo districts will make the Elgon region team.
The youth soccer tournament has attracted over 200 boys from all over the country.
Friends of Football (FOF), organisers of the youth football event, have decided that South Western region will comprise six boys from Rukungiri and five from Bushenyi.
Mbarara, winners of the South Western region, will enter seven boys to form one team for the region.
Masaka will enter two teams — Masaka A and B. Six boys from Fort Portal, winners of the Western region, have been chosen while Hoima and Masindi have had 18 selected from their districts to form one team for Western region.
Petroleum giant Shell has injected sh73m into the youth league.
Arua U-16, as a guest team, will represent West Nile region.
The teams from Nile region (Jinja, Iganga and Kamuli) will play their regional tournament on December 28 in Jinja to determine who represents the region in the champions league.
*Godfrey Masa netted a lone goal in the first half as Mbale Heroes edged visiting Kenyan Second Division side Boca Juniors in an international friendly match played at Mbale Municipal Stadium on Sunday.