Skip to main content

Human Resources Deficient for a Professional Football Industry-Magogo

People living an ordinary life in Africa will agree with me that it is a daily battle for resources to survive into another day. Football is not different because it does not exist in utopia but affected by the daily dynamics of life. It is therefore empirical that African  and in particular Ugandan football is deficient of resources. Incidentally when reference is made to resources, all eyes gaze at finances. Resources include Human, Time and Finance resources.

The Author and FUFA Vice President in charge of Administration, Eng. Moses Magogo consults the CEO Edgar Watson during the extra ordinary assembly in August this year.

Whereas I agree that we are deficient of the finance resources, my opinion is that we need time and human resources to create the finance resources instead of the other round. Incidentally the time resource is God given, but is the most abused resource in Africa and more particularly in Ugandan Football. I have attended football meetings in Uganda and instead it is normal for  someone to turn up 2 hours after the start of the meeting  justifying what is called “African Time”. All of us are culprits and we just have to look into the mirror and own up. I have also attended football meetings where people speak after another like “I want to emphasize…”, If something has been said why not say something different if u have a different opinion or move to the next item. We cannot turn the game professional when we do not harness the time resource efficiently.

With the time resource abused, the Ugandan Football industry is in a whirl of Human Resource deficiency. As the game turned professional demanding for more specialized skills, outside the conventional football skills of coaching and team management, such as legal, accounts, media, marketing etc, Uganda was going in the reverse direction with the few brains abandoning the sport to those who had nowhere else to go. Football further lost the economic power to retain the likes of Mike Mukasa, Aggrey Kibenge, William Nkemba, Opika Opoka, Robert Aloro, Katamba who were well schooled and had played or associated with football to the highest level but left mid their active football careers due to curable injuries or in search for better economic sense. The current situation is a huge lack of quality and quantity human resource. My reference to football human resource includes Players, Coaches, Sports Doctors, Referees, Administrators and Managers

There are so many people comprising the football human resource today, in very leading positions, that should not have been because of their lack of expertise yet the gaps are still very many to manage a fully professionalized industry. Incidentally those with evident lack of expertise in the areas of players, Coaches, Referees, Medicinists, and Administrators are clamoring for higher levels of responsibilities. Players want to play for the national teams when they can not conduct football basics like ball control, coaches want to take on national teams when they are pedestrian, there are traditional doctors working for clubs in the elite league, mediocre referees want FIFA budges and it is terrible for administrators who do not understand anything about professional football to be leading the process and are not about to learn. Some statements and actions of our football administrators are not only laughable but also regrettable to those who know

I am glad to announce that the FUFA President at the recently concluded Katomi FUFA Excom Retreat brought this reality to the Excom and has delegated my office of the FUFA VP-Administration to design and implement a strategy. It is an enormous task and I will need everybody in and outside football to appreciate this reality and come along with beautiful ideas, moral and material support. I will share my ideologies and intended procedures of this gigantic task in this forum amongst others

(About the Author: Magogo is the Vice president of FUFA in charge of Administration and a FIFA certified Administration Instructor. Besides Football, he is a professional Engineer working with African Development Bank in Kampala City. He will be posting a weekly Topical Opinion of matters of subject every Friday)

One Reply to “Human Resources Deficient for a Professional Football Industry-Magogo”

  1. the caption is not for last year but when he was not the president sir.The caption states he was last may be it was cut and paste

0
    0
    Your Cart
    Your cart is emptyReturn to Shop