Bebe Cool for Road to Anfield gala

 By Norman Katende

 Standard Chartered Bank trophy draw

 Gp 1: Liverpool Fans, Roofings 1, NSSF, Roofings 1, Daily Monitor
 Gp 2: Coca-Cola 2, Three Ways , Letshego 1, Silk Events, Standard Chartered 3
 Gp 3: Unknown 3, New Vision, Liverpool Fans 3, Simba Group, Three Ways 2
 Gp 4: Sanyu FM, Unknown 2, Standard Chartered 1, Urban TV, Robbie Fowler
 Gp 5:  Kenny Daglish, Cipla Chemicals, Uganda Breweries, Kevin Keegan, SSL Logistics
 Gp 6: Bukedde, Steven Gerrald, Unknown 1, Uganda Breweries 2, Coca-Cola 1
 Gp 7: Red Pepper, Radio One, Unknown 5, Unknown 6, Standard Chartered 2
 Gp 8 : Standard Chartered 4, SSL Logistics1, East African, Unknown 4, Letshego

Musician Bebe Cool will add more colour to the Standard Chartered Bank road to Anfield national event that is due at Namboole stadium on Saturday.

Bebe Cool is expected to be one of the artists to perform during the  five-aside one-day soccer gala that is aimed at bringing the corporate companies and their children together to enjoy soccer.

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40 teams will be battling for an opportunity to represent Uganda at the annual Anfield  regional soccer gala that is due in Liverpool in May. The team that performs best at the Uganda stage will advance to the East African leg, which will be held in Nairobi  next month.

The New Vision and Urban TV soccer team have been handed a seemingly easy group, while their counterparts Bukedde have to battle Uganda Breweries and Coca-Cola, some of the top teams in the corporate league if they are to advance to the knockout rounds. The national event is set  for Saturday at Namboole starting 8am.

The draw for the event were conducted at Sheraton Hotel on Thursday by Edgars, the company set to handle the technical matters of the event.

New Vision were drawn in Group 3 together with Liverpool Fans, Simba Group and Three ways while Urban had Sanyu , Standard Chartered and  Robbie Fowler, a select team of Standard Chartered bank customers. The top two in each group advance to the knockout round.

Edgar Watson, the chief executive officer of the national soccer body warned licensed players not to take part in the tournament as they are tied by the rules governing them.

Officials conducting the draw at Sheraton Hotel. PHOTO: Norman Katende

“It is an amateur tournament. A team that will use a licensed player will be disqualified and the licensed player will also be punished,” said Watson.

Harriet Nangozi of Standard Chartered Bank said that they had zeroed on seeing that the best team wins as a means of boosting competition.