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The project was initially started in February 2016 but died silently after numerous complaints and concerns about its quality.
StarTimes Uganda Premier League clubs will receive match day balls from the league organisers starting this season, the new board has confirmed.
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The project was initially started in February 2016 but died a silent death after numerous complaints and concerns about its quality.
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Failed promise
About a year ago, the long-serving Uganda Premier League chief executive officer Bernard Bainamani had revealed that the project would resume but under FUFA.
Bainamani, in an interview with the Sunday Monitor, stated that FUFA had promised to provide the balls as part of Moses Magogo’s manifesto that saw him reelected to power unopposed.
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He said: “When you look at the manifesto of the [FUFA] president, there’s something about standardization… we shall have the official balls soon and hopefully an official sponsor of the match day balls.”
Magogo, while luring the voters, promised that his leadership would provide about 10,000 training and 5,000 official standardised match day balls.
However, two years later, the UPL board vice chairman David Sserebe informed club chairpersons that the federation had failed to deliver on the commitment.
Resumption
“We had started the match balls programme and intended to continue, but FUFA warned us not to touch that area,” Sserebe told the clubs at their annual general meeting.
“We stopped the programme but I think our parents orphaned us, so we have allocated some money to resume with the programme this season.”
The board has allocated shs.10 million for the project this season.
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According to the FUFA Competitions rules, each club must provide eight balls on match day and must be present throughout the course of the match.
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