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David GOMBE
FUFA President Hon. Moses Magogo has referred to as upon extra company firms to put money into Girls soccer and thanked the respective companions who’ve at all times been supportive to the sport.
Magogo reaffirmed FUFA’s long-term dedication to ladies’s soccer improvement following the Uganda U-17 Girls’s Nationwide Group’s triumph on the CECAFA U-17 Girls’s Championship 2026
“Girls’s soccer requires the identical stage of funding as males’s soccer. The prices are the identical and the alternatives are there for organisations that need to be a part of the expansion of the sport,” he famous.
Talking throughout a luncheon held in honour of the Teen Cranes for his or her CECAFA U-17 Girls’s triumph, Magogo hailed the gamers, coaches and stakeholders who contributed to the group’s profitable marketing campaign.
“Our curiosity isn’t just about successful trophies. At this stage, our curiosity is improvement. Initially, figuring out expertise after which growing that expertise to turn out to be higher footballers and future nationwide group gamers,” he mentioned.
Magogo additionally promised continued assist in the direction of ladies soccer
“We’re not in ladies’s soccer for a brief interval. We’re in ladies’s soccer for a goal. We need to see Uganda compete on the highest stage and that journey begins with giving younger gamers alternatives at an early age,” he mentioned.
As a part of the federation’s recognition of the group’s achievement, Hon. Magogo introduced that each one gamers would obtain scholastic supplies from FUFA.
“Because the Government Committee, we perceive that these gamers are nonetheless college students. We’re not purported to pay them for what they’ve performed. Now we have subsequently determined to supply scholastic supplies for all of the gamers as a means of supporting their schooling alongside soccer,” he said.
The Teen Cranes smiled to a 3-0 win over Tanzania within the Girls’s U-17 CECAFA Closing that was performed on Tuesday on the KMC Stadium in Dar es Salaam. Sheryl Ulanda Botes’ costs gained all 5 matches, scored 26 objectives and didn’t concede a single purpose all through the match.
