Structures will attract sponsors to local soccer - Caf boss
Raymond speaks at the opening ceremony of the Caf licencing seminar in last week. PHOTO BY ISMAIL KEZAALA
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Soccer. Local clubs should learn to adopt a corporate governance format, says South African Hack Raymond.
KAMPALA.
The poverty and disorganisation bedeviling Uganda football can be done away with if clubs stop conducting their affairs in thier briefcases and bedrooms, Confederation of African Football (Caf) instructor Hack Raymond has revealed.
While addressing participants at the two-day Caf club licensing seminar at Imperial Royale Hotel last week, the South African added that football cannot develop when it is being run by one person.
“Africa is still regarded as the step child of football because we lack proper football infrastructure like stadiums and medical facilities,” he noted. “Local clubs should learn to adopt a corporate governance format and where necessary liaise with schools and universities to have training centers,” Raymond, also the head of the Caf disciplinary committee, added. Fufa second vice-president, Darius Mugoye, revealed that football administration in Uganda is stagnating because there is no necessary human resource for capacity building and that some club officials at first rejected registering their clubs and players arguing that they were being pushed out of football.
The participants that included club CEOs, FSL board members, Ministry of Education and Sports officials, Uganda Olympic Committee and stadium owners/managers, were urged to trust Fufa with their club information because it is always treated confidentially.
“This course is an engine to football development because it will help clubs market themselves to sponsors to solve their current financial dilemma. They should also be in position to keep the necessary club records for the next generation,” Fufa club licensing committee chairperson, Bernard Ogwel said.
