KAARO KARUNGI | ENTEBBE – President Museveni has recommended that Government ought to consider supporting games legends who resign by offering them bursaries to concentrate so they can get work in other expert orders they want or get work with government.
The President said that like in the military, sports is chiefly physical and in this manner one requirements to adequately partake when still youthful.
Anyway at 35, an athlete can in any case serve country for an additional 20 years whenever sent in common help or offered bursaries to prepare in higher establishments of learning in a control of their decision.
President Museveni, who was along with the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Mrs. JanetKataaha Museveni, was on Thursday saying goodbye to Dennis Onyango, previous Captain of the National Football Team; Uganda Cranes, at a capacity held at State House Entebbe today.
He said thanks to Onyango and the games club for bringing Uganda’s name on the world games map.
“We thank you sports individuals. Despite the fact that Government has not been supporting you completely, we support you in a roundabout way through inoculation, UPE, harmony and security, which empowers the advancement of your gifts,” he said.
Onyango’s retirement came in the wake of FUFA president Moses Magogo’s ‘upsetting’ remarks towards Uganda Cranes players that partook in the 2020 CHAN competition in Cameroon.
Magogo who demanded that the players reserved no privilege to interest for their camp rewards subsequent to playing “shi*ty football”, left numerous football lovers harsh as the Mamelodi Sundowns Goalkeeper communicated his discontent in a sound bite that became famous online.
Museveni said that subsequent to figuring out the need zones in the spending plan including building the framework; power, streets, railroad, Government can set out on supporting games regions like structure stadia.
President Museveni additionally recommended that the new Government ought to get time to examine the issue of sending out sport abilities to different nations saying that Ugandans with sports gifts are turning out to be performers outside the country.
“I compliment Onyango for what he has done. We will get time in the new government and settle on this fare conspire whether it is positive or negative. How would we be able to deal with keep our athletes here,” he said while reacting to the First Lady’s anxiety that even in the wake of developing games and abilities with every one of the games frameworks, they wind up traveling to another country.
He encouraged Ugandans to tune in to his recommendation of working for the stomach as well as for the pocket so Uganda can accomplish center pay status, saying that this will empower individuals to help sports exercises as fans.
The First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports Mrs. Janet Museveni expressed gratitude toward Dennis Onyango for giving Uganda such a lot of pride as a country when he remained in charge of the Uganda Cranes and said that saying goodbye to him is tragic.
Maama Janet who said that she was talking as a parent, said there is need to purposely anticipate sports and building the games individuals so that in any event, when such individuals like Onyango resign from playing football, they can become mentors.
“We need to expand on what we start. We can’t develop if whoever we plan leaves and disappears for ‘greener fields’, since we need the Onyangos to be the mentors of the new groups, that is the manner by which countries are assembled. That is the manner by which those countries with super groups develop,” she said.
Dennis Onyango who was joined by his mom and sister said he was resigning from neighborhood football at 35 years to empower the youthful players dominate and still has around three more dynamic years to play in global games.
He expressed gratitude toward President Museveni and government for the help given to him and said he had served the game for a very long time
The President and the First Lady later talented Uganda’s chivalrous games star with a pristine Pajero Sport vehicle for his execeptional profession at both National and global level.
Onyango made his Uganda Cranes debut on 18 June 2005 during a World Cup capability match against Cape Verde.
Onyango was crucial as the Cranes recovered to move AFCON appearances in 2017 and 2019 in Gabon and Egypt individually.
He joins safeguard Hassan Wasswa Mawanda who likewise punched out as of late.
