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The engineer who previously featured for Djibouti’s Arta Solar became the first foreign player to join APR FC in eleven years after the side lifted a ban on signing foreign players.
Yes, Taddeo Lwanga is now an APR player after he sealed a two-year deal with the Rwandan champions on Saturday.
The engineer who previously featured for Djibouti’s Arta Solar became the first foreign player to join APR FC in eleven years after the side lifted a ban on signing foreign players.
A host of other foreign players are expected to join the combative midfielder.
The APR FC – Uganda Love Affair
Lwanga is not the first Ugandan to feature for the record Rwandan league champions.
Twelve years ago, before the ban, several high-profile Ugandan players featured for APR FC, who had better remunerations than other leagues in the region.
Hassan Mubiru (2005)
Arguably one of the best finishers Uganda has ever produced, Hassan ‘Figo’ Mubiru had built a cult hero status at Express FC for five seasons but finally left Wankulukuku for APR FC in 2005.
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He led the Lions to the Rwandan league title and the finals of the CECAFA Kagame Cup, where they lost 3-0 to SC Villa; he returned to Express FC in 2006.
James Odoch (2004/2005, 2005/2006)
Known for their trademark ferocious strikes on the ball, the current Express FC head coach joined the army side in 2004 and went on to guide the army side to two league titles.
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But was later dropped for absconding from duty before he joined Thanh Hoa in Vietnam in 2007.
Abubakar Tabula
The former Uganda Cranes left-back controversially left KCCA FC alongside Noah Kasule Babadi to join APR and featured for two seasons, between 2007 and 2009, winning two league titles with the side.
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Other notable Ugandan faces include former SC Villa winger Phillip Ssozi, Vincent Kayizzi, Fred Okello, Almansi Kadogo, Dan Wagaluka, the late Johnson Bagoole and most recently, in 2013, Habib Kavuma.
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Charles Tibingana Pooje, Denis Rukundo and Andrew Buteera who were all born in Uganda but are of Rwanda decent also featured for APR FC.
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About APR FC
The club Armée Patriotique Rwandaise Football Club, formed by the national army, the Rwanda Patriotic Front in 1993, is the most successful side in the Rwanda top flight, winning the league 21 times, including the last four on the bounce.
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