Mbabazi gets national team assignment

Jan 01, 2014

FUFA has appointed former Cranes international Livingstone Mbabazi, SCVU head coach Morley Byekwaso and his goalkeeping coach Moses Oloya on national coaching roles

By Swalley Kenyi 

FUFA has appointed former Cranes international Livingstone Mbabazi, SCVU head coach Morley Byekwaso and his goalkeeping coach Moses Oloya on national coaching roles, barely three weeks after ex-international Jackson Mayanja called on the federation to consider former national players for coaching roles. 

Mayanja called on FUFA to ignore foreign coaches and hand over coaching duties right from senior sides to the junior teams to former national team players. 

“Time is up for foreign coaches (especially from outside the continent) in Uganda. FUFA needs to give chance to local coaches to prove themselves. Ugandan coaches are regarded highly out of here but not in their own country,” Mayanja noted. 

Ugandan tacticians plying their trade all over East Africa include Sam Timbe now at Sofapaka FC Kenya, Sam Ssimbwa (Police FC in Rwanda), Moses Basena (technical director Simba SC) and Mayanja himself at Kagera FC in Tanzania. 

FUFA yesterday said their technical committee has handed SCVU head coach Morley Byekwaso the role of assistant coach to Mbabazi in charge of U-17 boys team, while and his goalkeeper coach Moses Oloya takes up the role of coach of the women U-17 team. 

Mbabazi is part of the technical team for FUFA Super League debutantes Bright Stars FC. 

“We had a meeting with all of them and they (coaches) accepted their appointments. We are soon finalising the training programmes for the various underage and women teams to be engaged in, and coaches will be busy,” FUFA technical director Asuman Lubowa said yesterday. 

FUFA president Moses Magogo has a deliberate plan to develop the different underage teams for attractive marketing to prospective sponsors to bankroll. 

Recently, he pulled out the national U-20 women team from the Africa qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA Women World Cup in Canada, arguing that it was not cost effective. FUFA argued that their assessment indicated that they would spend all their resource allocation for women football in the qualifier against Ghana at the expense of other activities. 

Lubowa said yesterday that they are developing a fresh plan to prepare the underage teams for future engagements.

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