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Africa Volleyball Championship: Uganda Beat Rwanda To Finish 5th

Brian KawalyaSeptember 15, 2021September 15, 2021

Tuesday, September 14*5th place: Rwanda 1-3 Uganda*3rd place: Morocco 1-3 Egypt*Final: Cameroon 1-3 Tunisia Uganda managed to overcome hosts Rwanda to clinch an impressive fifth place at the 2021 Men's African Nations Volleyball Championship in Kigali. The Volleyball Cranes fought from from a set down before sealing a 3-1 (21-25, 25-23,...

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Men in skirts

Elizabeth KisoloSeptember 11, 2021September 11, 2021

During my second year of high school, a rumor spread like wildfire about the apparent men that masqueraded among us at night. Being a single-sex school, the fear that gripped us was enormous. It was either a tale brought up by some dark humor lovers or by some girls who...

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Interview: Michael Birungi Documenting His Football Journey

Timothy KuteesaSeptember 10, 2021September 10, 2021

For anyone that has familiarized with Ugandan football for the last decade or so, the name Micheal Birungi must have surfaced more often than not. A reserved, tight-lipped and nice looking enigma who easily comes off as an introvert of sorts. One that gives nothing away but leaves a lot...

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Player Ratings: Grading the Performance of Uganda Cranes Players Against Mali

Brian KawalyaSeptember 7, 2021September 7, 2021

It was a mixed performance for Uganda Cranes players as they squeezed out a hard fought draw against Mali in Group E of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qualifier at St Mary's Stadium in Kitende on Monday. Few players were admirable on the day as many struggled to establish their...

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Exploring The Journey Into The Deepest Alleys Of Para-Sport in Uganda

Elizabeth KisoloSeptember 3, 2021September 3, 2021

Your columnist recently started volunteering as a coach with the wheelchair basketball community and couldn't have imagined that the disparity was always bound to have an instant impact on her. To be totally honest, there is incredibly so much passion in these players, something that easily comes off as a...

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Why Election Cancellation Is An Indictment To SC Villa’s Recently Discovered Quest For Array

Timothy KuteesaSeptember 1, 2021September 1, 2021

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny and so was the sovereignty that SC Villa enjoyed as leaders of the patriarchy in Ugandan football. This manifesting itself in their conquest and holding grip to the game's holy grail. There is actually no single local or regional trophy on which the Jogoo name...

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What Roberto Oliveira Brings To Vipers SC

Timothy KuteesaAugust 28, 2021August 28, 2021

The hierarchy at Uganda Premier League side Vipers SC have for the past three months or so battled with reports linking the vacant then head coach role at the club to former KCCA FC manager Mike Hillary Mutebi whose reputation as many would argue perfectly fits the bill. This narrative...

FUFA AGM Approves Moses Magogo For Third Term

Brian KawalyaAugust 21, 2021August 22, 2021

Moses Magogo will remain as the Federation of Uganda Football Association President for the next four years (2021-2025). Magogo was approved by the 97th FUFA Ordinary General Assembly held on Saturday 21st August 2021 in Mbale. The new term will be the third for Magogo who came into office in 2013 to...

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SC Villa Elections: Mbidde Goes Bare-knuckles Against Ssegona

Timothy KuteesaAugust 17, 2021August 18, 2021

"Many people have knowledge but lack the ability to discern and make a point to ensure that they enjoy a more sustainable growth. I therefore implore my fans to forgive and treat the insults with the kind of contempt it deserve." This was one of the biggest highlights in a...

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Explorating The Legacy of Team Uganda at the Olympic Games

Timothy KuteesaAugust 11, 2021August 11, 2021

It's not everyday that Team Uganda gets into an Olympics event so rejuvenated and with untainted belief in the abilities of it's athletes to deliver succeed, neither is it a common occurrence for us to bask in glory of the best Olympics performance ever. The two are mutually exclusive circumstances...

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Olympics Medal Table: How Uganda Compared With Other African Countries

Brian KawalyaAugust 8, 2021August 8, 2021

The curtains have come down on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Africa has had some memorable performances to savour at an international multi-sport event held between 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. The African continent leaves Tokyo with 37 medals, including 11 golds. Only 13 countries from Africa managed to win...

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Nakivubo Stadium: Parliament takes keen interest in the dawdling construction process

Timothy KuteesaAugust 8, 2021August 8, 2021

During last week's final parliamentary setting on Friday 6/8/2021, the deputy speaker Anita Among who also doubled as the host of proceedings on the evening delegated a committee of parliamentarians to lead an investigation into what has for long been described as a sluggish approach to the construction of Nakivubo...

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Bobosi, Ndahiro In 20-man Uganda Team Set For Trials In Spain

Brian KawalyaAugust 5, 2021August 5, 2021

Ugandan players, who subscribe and hold allegiances to Team Fundi, are set for a training camp in Spain later this month where they are expected to showcase their untouchable talents. The team, which will leave for Spain on August 15th, will play four exhibition matches against Spain's Segunda B clubs...

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Alex Muhabi: The Rich Legacy of Professionalism

StaffAugust 1, 2021August 2, 2021

Alex Muhabi’s decision to retire from the beautiful game was made public knowledge by FUFA in an address to the press the previous month. This unforeseen resolution by the veteran referee put a climax on a career that spanned for a period of 21-years and transcended from merely territorial boundaries....

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Julius Ssekitoleko: Weightlifter Delivers Heart-touching Story

John Paul NtegeAugust 1, 2021August 1, 2021

The disappearnce of weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko at from Team Uganda Camp in Tokyo was a headline grabbing moment at the coveted games. The developments came through after Ssekitoleko was deemed ineligible to participate in the games and was expected to return back to the country the following week. However after...

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Isaac Rujumba: Why I was fired from National Team

StaffAugust 1, 2021August 1, 2021

My name is Isaac Rujumba, and this is my story I experienced my first bit of injustice and unfairness at the hands of the Uganda Rugby Union in 2014. A young robust rugby player fresh out of high school, I was excited to be called up to the national U(19)...

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Yusuf Ssozi: An Exclusive Chat with Police FC Midfielder

Brian KawalyaJuly 31, 2021July 31, 2021

There aren't many players in the league currently that possess the game intellect and enormous skill of Yusuf Ssozi especially when concerning the ability for one to assert themselves in his central midfield position and dictate the flow of the game. The Police FC anchorman does this duty to perfection...

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Inside FUFA’s Strategy To Take Football On TV

StaffJuly 31, 2021July 31, 2021

World Sport is over 600bn USD economy bigger than the aviation industry. This has largely been achieved by packaging sports events via television and the wider electronic media to the masses. In the process, many brands have paid sports to carry their commercial messages to the same audiences. Considering that...

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President Museveni Re-opens Sports, With Restrictions

Brian KawalyaJuly 30, 2021July 31, 2021

After a 42-day shutdown, Sport in Uganda will resume behind closed doors provided strict conditions are met, President Museveni said on Friday in a national address. Sport was suspended in Uganda on June 18 in response to a hike in coronavirus cases. The President has only given greenlight to Outdoor...

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Moses Muhangi: Reasons For Uganda’s Poor Boxing Show at The Olympics

the-sportsnation.com1July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

By Moses MuhangiThe Writer is the President of Uganda Boxing Federation (UBF), an AIBA International Technical Officer (ITO) and Interim President for The Uganda Sports Federations and Associations (USFA). Boxing has and still remains to be the highest medal collecting sport for Uganda at the Olympic games to a tune...

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