Son of a butcher, Dada, slays Police
Ibrahim Juma Dada
KAMPALA- His peasant parents in Moyo District are not proud that he is playing football. They don’t even care he is playing in the topflight - for now. But that does not matter to him.
Ibrahim Juma Dada, the second player to score a hat-trick in this season’s StarTimes Uganda Premier League, after KCCA’s Patrick Kaddu, has not been exposed to the luxuries of most footballers.
The 20-year-old, an arts student at Mbarara’s Sentah College, was spotted by a one Ismail Babu, who secured him a bursary in Mbarara. His talent had earlier on been spotted by Vurra, Onduparaka and Sentah College.
“While at Onduparaka, they used to take me to their away games but because I was in Senior Four, I could not play. When I came to Mbarara, that is when I got a chance to play,” he says.
Dada, who scored three vital goals as Nyamityobora edged Police 4-1 at in Lugogo yesterday, would have even scored more. He twice squandered one-on-one chances at one moment rounding off Police goalkeeper Davis Mutebi. “I would have scored that goal,” he said in reference to the missed sitter in the dying minutes. But he is happy anyway.
He says that on top of the four goals he scored in the first round, he targets a minimum of 10 goals, something that could attract the attention of national team coaches. “I am just starting my career but I think I can make coaches consider,” he noted.
His three goals have now taken him to seven league goals, three behind SC Villa’s Bashir Mutanda.
