Reports: URA in talks with Alex Isabirye for head coach role

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FOOTBALL Reports: URA in talks with Alex Isabirye for head coach role

Allan Damba 11:22 - 26.08.2023

Four-time Uganda Premier League champions URA FC want to replace their fallen coach Sam Timbe with serial winner Alex Isabirye, Pulse Sports Uganda understands.

Four-time Uganda Premier League champions URA FC want to replace their fallen coach Sam Timbe with serial winner Alex Isabirye, Pulse Sports Uganda understands.

Timbe passed on a week after a short illness, leaving the head coach position vacant just a few weeks before the 2023/24 Uganda Premier League campaign started.

The Tax Collectors, who target a swift but worthy successor, contacted Isabirye, who only resigned from Vipers about two months back.

Alex Isabirye resigned from his role as Vipers SC head coach role on Wednesday

A reliable scoop from URA indicates the two parties are in talks and are advancing towards a timely agreement.

Should the two parties reach an amicable ground, Isabirye will return to a club he once coached and delivered relative success.

With URA between 2010-2013, he won three trophies, including the 2010/11 UPL title, the Uganda Cup in 2012 and the 2012 Super Cup.

Alex Isabirye was Vipers third coach last season and helped them to a League and Cup double /COURTESY PICTURE

He has since won the Uganda Cup with BUL FC and a domestic double with Vipers in his most recent assignment.

Meanwhile, reports have also linked a few other big names to the URA job, including Sam Ssimbwa and Abdullah Mubiru.