Magogo continues to back preference for foreign coaches

Federation of Uganda Football Association president Moses Magogo has spoken out on the acquisition of more foreign coaches by top local football clubs.

While speaking on FUFA FM’s Tuteegera Mupiira program on Thursday evening, Magogo explained that foreign coaches have demand due to technical advantage over local coaches.

“Today, a number of our StarTimes Uganda Premier League clubs are recruiting foreigners,” Magogo said.

“This is a reality check to us to examine our coaches and establish what exactly needs to be done to build capacity,” he said.

Magogo insinuated that the acquisitions of foreign coaches by top clubs vindicated FUFA’s appointment of foreign coaches as national team head coach in recent years.

“This debate is beyond Micho [national team’s Serbian head coach]. I’m not even defending him here but we are looking at the entire player quality output of our systems. We have to appreciate that our challenges are more than Micho.”

Magogo added: “In Uganda, there is a crop of people who have had a school of thought that the national team should be given to a local coach, which is not bad.”

Magogo’s statements follow the recent acquisitions of foreign coaches by Uganda’s historic football clubs; KCCA FC and Villa.

KCCA FC has appointed three foreign coaches to its technical bench for the 2023/24 season, Portuguese international, Sérgio Daniel Moniz Traguil takes charge.

Luis Manuel Correira will be the assistant manager, the club further created a new role of strength and conditioning coach and appointed Eduardo Lazaro Ramon Leiva.

SC Villa also unveiled Serbian coach Dusan Stojanovic as their new head coach. Vipers have worked with several foreign managers including Roberto Oliviera, Javier Martinez, Miguel Duarte Da Costa, and Beto Bianchi before switching to current local, Alex Isabirye.