The CAF club Licensing Regional Workshop has kicked off  in Uganda at Sheraton Hotel, Kampala on Monday 22^nd April 2019.

The workshop that has been divided into two groups, attracted 52 participants from 26 countries and will be organised from Monday to Friday 26^th April 2019.

CAF Executive Committee Member and  the President of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) Eng. Moses Magogo graced the opening ceremony.

FIFA Professional Football Adviser Middleby Robert David from Australia, CAF Instructors on Club Licensing  Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Mokhtar Harraz (Egypt), Sidat Muhammad Feizal  (Mozambique), Dasoberi Emmanuel Newton (Ghana), Bosilong Kabelo Keorapetse Hubert (South Africa) and Salihu Abubakar (Nigeria) are in charge of the workshop.

The workshop wil alos see Ugandan Club CEOs (in the Uganda Premier League) hold a session with the CAF Club Licesning Instructores. on Monday the Uganda Premier League CEO Bernard Bainamani and Head of Communications of the league Gordon Mundeyi attended the afternoon session.

Eng. Magogo applauded CAF for giving Uganda the opportunity to host the workshop and was pleased with the way the continental soccer body is supporting federations.

‘It’ is a great opportunity to host such a function. Cub Licensing is a tool we understood way back in 2008. It’s a tool that we use to develop our football in the country and when we develop the clubs, automatically we are increasing on the human resource. If we have very powerful clubs we can surely have very powerful national teams. This is a tool that is going to push all of us on the continent and probably may drive the dream for Africa to win the World cup in feature’ said Eng. Moses Magogo

‘As FUFA we hope that in the near feature we shall be able to achieve our Vision through hosting such functions, learning and sharing ideas and we hope by 2026 our National team will play in the FIFA World Cup’ added Magogo 

‘If we are to develop Club football on the continent, Club Licensing is very important. It is a major priority in all the aspects of developing football. Uganda is one of the countries that is  doing very well in Club Licensing process. Hopefully we can see the benefits mainly at the continent in club football and National teams. The process takes time to show the results but when time comes great achievement will be noticed mainly in 2-3 years to come’ said Harraz