All the sixteen invited referees for this year’s Cecafa-Kagame club championship have passed the fitness
tests conducted at the Military
Stadium this Sunday morning here in Khartoum City, Sudan
The results have been received by the Cecafa General Secretary Nicholas Musonye as a ‘perfect pre-kick off event’ of this region’s lucrative club championship
He further explained that eight of these match officials ewere young and new making their first appearance in the tournament
These according to Musonye include Okello Lee (Uganda), Adam Abdi (Djibouti), Pacifique Ndabihawemimana (Burundi), Hashim Adam (sudan), Pascal Ndimunzigo (Burundi), Emmanuel Ndikumasabo (Burundi), Abdullai Mohamoud (Djibouti) and Sulaiman Bashir (Somalia). Uganda is represented in the tournament by two assistant referees-Hussein Bugembe and Okello Lee.The duo was part of the group that underwent fitness tests supervised by Charles Masembe a regional CAF representative and Robert Anangwe a Referees’ instructor from Kenya among others
The other referees who have been to such tournament before are Issa Kagabo (Rwanda), Wish Yabarow (Somalia), Hakizimana Louis (Rwanda), Abdul Kadir Badrin(Sudan), Hussein Bugembe (Uganda), Mustafa Elmeday (Sudan), Ambrose Hakizimana and Khalafala Aziz (Sudan).
The tournament will officially kick off on Tuesday with home boys Al Shandy FC taking on Uganda’s tax boys URA FC at the newly constructed stadium near Kadguli airport in South Kordafan State.
Both URA FC and Express FC are expected in Khartoum later today.
