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FUFA STAKEHOLDERS’ FORUM: Vice President Ssekandi to grace Symposium

FUFA STAKEHOLDERS’ SYMPOSIUM: 23rd January 2015

Venue: Imperial Royale Hotel, Kampala (8 a.m – 5 p.m)

 

The first ever FUFA Stakeholders’ Football Symposium will be opened by the Ugandan Vice President, Hon. Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi.

FUFA had originally invited His Excellency, President of the Republic of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, who has delegated Hon. Ssekandi.

The workshop will take place on the 23rd January 2015 at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala.

Thekey note presenters will include the FUFA President, Eng. Moses Magogo, Airtel Uganda Marketing Director, Prasoon Lal, Uganda Cranes Head Coach, Milutin Sedrojevic, Emmanuel Maradas (England). Former Nigeria head coach, Stephen Keshi has also been contacted.

Background of the Workshop:

Following Uganda Cranes yet another near miss qualification for the 2015 Nations cup finals, many questions were raised by different stakeholders.

What happened? Where did it go wrong? When did we lose the campaign? Which ingredients were missing? Those were some of the many questions in the aftermath of the Cranes game against Guinea in Morocco.

Definitely it was a somber mood for all the football stakeholders who had their hopes high with the belief that 2014 was the year for Cranes to make the Nations cup finals for the first time since 1978.

FUFA was on the receiving end following Cranes failure to qualify.

The local soccer governing body took the blame but had to think deep especially to try and find out what actually could have gone wrong.

Like it has been, FUFA’s cultured way of handling football issues by involving every stake holder and various schools of thoughts, a symposium was mooted out by the Federation’s President Eng. Moses Magogo and his Executive to dig up the problems that have affected our game and what could have contributed to Uganda’s failure to qualify for the Nations cup finals for close to four decades.

There was little time to digest the problems however FUFA felt it necessary to hold a symposium aimed at identifying Uganda’s football problems.

It should be noted that a lot of emphasis will be given to the champions between now and 2019 that include the CHAN, Olympic Games, All Africa Games, international friendlies, CECAFA, 2017 Nations cup qualifiers and 2018 World cup Qualifiers.

FUFA believe efforts towards the above mentioned football fixtures would culminate into a successful ‘Project Cameroon 2019’.

The Workshop is expected to deeply analyze why since 1978 Uganda has not been able to qualify and attempt to obtain the Country Agenda for the PROJECT CAMEROON 2019.

Presentations will be from various stakeholders inclusive of Government and football persons from countries that always qualify.

Committee for the Symposium :

FUFA Vice President Justus Mugisha (Chairperson), Kennedy Mutenyo (Coca Cola), Patrick Mugumya (The Saints FC), Mark Namanya (Media), Norah Nassimbwa (State House), Sam Mpiima, Dr. Patrick Benard Ogwel (FUFA Executive Member), Rogers Mulindwa (FUFA Delegate), Sumaya Hood (FUFA Secretariat), Esther Musoke (FUFA Marketing Manager), Aggrey Ashaba and Axam Senkayi.

Chief Guest:
His Excellency, The vice President of the Republic of Uganda Hon. Edward Ssekandi

Specific Objectives of the symposium:

i. Identify problems of Uganda’s football

ii. To share ideas on problems which have affected Uganda’s football since 1978 and try and find to solutions

iii. Find ways of converting our potential (talent endowment) to a final product.

iv. Utilization of various football stakeholders to support and develop the game

Participants: Groups representative of various football stakeholders-FUFA, Government, sponsors, Media, Fans, Ex-former Cranes players, active players, etc

-Invited Guests from Government, corporate world

FUFA is the main sponsor of the Symposium. Others are Airtel Uganda (Uganda Cranes Main sponsors), Post Bank Uganda Limited, Nile Breweries Limited and Jude Colour Solutions.

MAIN PHOTO: Vice President of the Republic of Uganda Edward Ssekandi.

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