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David GOMBE

FUFA President Hon. Moses Magogo has known as upon extra company firms to put money into Girls soccer and thanked the respective companions who’ve all the time been supportive to the sport.

Magogo reaffirmed FUFA’s long-term dedication to ladies’s soccer growth following the Uganda U-17 Girls’s Nationwide Workforce’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 workforce’s profitable marketing campaign.

“Our curiosity isn’t just about successful trophies. At this stage, our curiosity is growth. To start with, figuring out expertise after which creating that expertise to develop into higher footballers and future nationwide workforce gamers,” he mentioned.

Magogo additionally promised continued help in the direction of ladies soccer

“We aren’t 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 workforce’s achievement, Hon. Magogo introduced that each one gamers would obtain scholastic supplies from FUFA.

“Because the Govt Committee, we perceive that these gamers are nonetheless college students. We aren’t presupposed to pay them for what they’ve finished. Now we have due to this fact determined to offer scholastic supplies for all of the gamers as a method of supporting their training alongside soccer,” he said.

The Teen Cranes smiled to a 3-0 win over Tanzania within the Girls’s U-17 CECAFA Ultimate that was performed on Tuesday on the KMC Stadium in Dar es Salaam. Sheryl Ulanda Botes’ costs received all 5 matches, scored 26 objectives and didn’t concede a single objective all through the match.