Mutebi: KCCA can dominate for years
Champions. Lord Mayor Erias Lukwago ( right), is joined by other KCCA oficials Aggrey Ashaba, Eng Kitaka to pose with the league trophy with team captain Timothy Awany. PHOTO BY JOHN BATANUDDE
What you need to know:
- Points. KCCA completed the season with 66 points, seven ahead of deposed champions Vipers.
KCCA were on Saturday crowned StarTimes Uganda Premier League champions for the 13th time, their fifth title in seven seasons.
The feat moved them to within three titles of SC Villa’s record 16-title league haul.
KCCA manager Mike Mutebi now believes the club have laid a strong foundation that can help them dominate Ugandan football for years to come.
“They’re still young and most of them have been graduating from our junior aside so they have the capability of mastering the league and winning trophies, playing on the continent. So this this issue of experience doesn’t matter anymore,” Mutebi who himself was celebrating his third title in four seasons said.
“They have already accumulated more experience at their tender years. So we have a squad that can dominate. We want to have a squad that is largely going to be generated from our development side. For example, this season we have managed to have 13 players from a period of four years and most of them having been playing. So we’ll stick to our development side and stick to growing our own who understand how KCCA play,” he added.
Two of those youngsters Allan Okello and Herbert Achai were on the score sheet on the final day as KCCA trounced Maroons, obliging opponents on the day, 6-1 at the StarTimes Stadium.
Achai’s goal was particularly impressive as he showed composure on the ball and beating two defenders before toe-poking home the game’s final goal on 57 minutes of the fairly attended game. The more experienced players chipped in too, on the day with Allan Kyambadde adding a sumptuous curling strike two minutes before Achai’s goal.
There was also a couple of headed goals from Patrick Kaddu that took him to 14 goals for the season as well as further strikes by Muzamir Mutyaba and Okello.
“I’m telling you if they’ve managed in that period because they’ve been around like for the last four years. Since they graduated they have been winners. That means they have started their footballing careers by winning trophies.
So for them it has become a responsibility. They’re under no pressure. They know they are playing for a big club and KCCA must be a winning club,’ Mutebi further explained. KCCA thus completed the season with 66 points, seven ahead of deposed champions Vipers, and the only other team to have won the league in the last seven years.
