Odilo Championship 2025 Girls’ debutants Bergen Nursery and Primary School have scored 11 goals in their opening two group stage fixtures; higher than any other team in this edition. Something ironic, they don’t celebrate the goals—simply the scorer carrying the ball from the net to the centre of the field for a quick restart; what a mentality!
We spoke to their games teacher, Mr. Adaku Felix who admitted that their players are being trained on utilising all the scoring opportunities to score and play in offense as much as possible.
“Scoring is a normal thing for the girls. And we train them to score as much as possible, because this is a tournament and you don’t need to stop scoring.” Mr Adaku said.
He however insisted that they are as well cautious of the overconfidence that comes after having to win with large goal margins, yet they had come in labeled as their group underdogs.
“When we came into the Championship, many people mentioned two other teams to make it out of the groupings after the draws came out.” he added.
“When we won our first two games, it became the other way round. We are now the favorites, but that is not the point. We are not yet distracted, we need more of this performance to the last dot.” he added.
Bergen Nursery and Primary School beat Amuca Primary School, five goals to nil, with Nabakooza Cathy alone netting four and Namanda Rinet scoring the first of the five.
Nabakooza Cathy, speaking after receiving her matchay ball, said she was not aware she was scoring all those goals, but felt happy that she had done it.
“I feel so good to have scored all those goals” Cathy admitted.
“Even me, I entered the pitch not knowing I was scoring all those goals but God helped me to score those (four) goals,” she added.
Cathy would later go on to score a brace on match day two, with this time around Nabisubi Raudah netting a hat-trick and Namuli Saudah a goal in their 6-1 victory over Aterai Primary School.
Raudah credits her matchday ball acquisition to hard work and says she’ll use hers to juggle and learn more skills.
“I feel happy to have won this ball because I have worked for it. I am going to use it for juggling and making some skills.” Nabisubi said.
The Buganda Region Champions from Lyantonde District, Bergen Nursery and Primary School will meet Prime View Education Centre in the closing group game.
