FUFA chief Magogo invites eight 'traditional' schools for parallel schools’ tournament

According to the invitation letters, Magogo noted that the project is tailored for “traditional schools” that are known for academic excellence but are not doing well in football.

The eight include his former schools Namilyango and Jinja Colleges, Busoga College Mwiri and Kiira College Butiki, the latter three from Jinja City and Districts, respectively.

The others are Kings College Buddo, St. Marys College Kisubi, Ntare School and Makerere College.

The letters did not explain the criteria used but stated that the “schools were carefully selected and invited”.

“FUFA is a monopoly body licensed by the National Council of Sports to run football in Uganda,” he introduced.

“We have, however, observed that currently there is a void of top football players from such schools, yet history has it that such schools have produced top-end productive citizens in academia and football in the past,” he laid FUFA’s reason.

Unfair

Magogo also noted that the current tournament that the Ministry of Education and Sports runs through the Uganda Secondary Schools Sports Association doesn’t provide a fair platform for the schools to compete.

“From our analysis, the current secondary schools' football competitions in Uganda do not provide a fair, competitive platform for the traditional secondary schools."

“The current football competitions are dominated largely by privately owned secondary schools that have different objectives and more resources to ‘out-muscle’ the traditional schools,” Magogo added.

In the pamphlets accompanying that accompanied the letters, FUFA stated the goal of the FUFA Tv Cup is: “To give an opportunity to soccer players, referees and coaches at carefully selected traditional schools more re-known for academic excellence, to undertake football development in [a] safe, secure and technically managed environment without compromising academics."

This comes at a time when FIFA is scaling up and spreading its fully-funded Football for Schools (F4S) projected for the member associations.