THE world soccer governing body, FIFA, is to help Uganda professionalise the Super League through the ‘Win Africa for Africa’ programme.
FIFA’s East, Central and South Africa regional development officer Ashford Mamelodi yesterday told the FIFA Futuro Level III administration course attendants that FIFA has set aside money to help African countries professionalise their leagues. This is intended to help the local leagues draw more sponsors, crowds and improve competition.
“This should be before the 2010 World Cup. We will assess your top leagues in terms of organisation and performance.
"A pilot project in Tanzania, Lesotho and Botswana has worked (out well). We want it for the whole of Africa and there are funds for that,” said Mamelodi at the course at the Golf Course Hotel.
The workshop was opened by sports state minister Charles Bakkabulindi.
Participants from 12 countries are attending the course.
Mamelodi however said that clubs must have a good organisational structure with offices, a permanently employed officer and a training ground since this is the backbone for football.
“We need to have a starting point. We want capacity building for clubs. We have to meet the club heads to discuss the way forward before we start facilitating them,” said Mamelodi.
He added: “We will then hold a coaching course and also provide all the premier league clubs equipment for training including football, shoes, gloves, nets, goal posts and goalkeeper gloves among others.”
Mamelodi said that the objective of all this is to help clubs embark on the road to professionalism within the next years, and to attract more corporate sponsors.
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