CAF NEWS
Keep working together in CECAFA – Dr. Motespe
The President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Dr. Patrice Motsepe has urged CECAFA members to work together to bring about football development in the region and Africa as a whole.
Dr. Motsepe said this on Thursday during his meeting with the executive committee members of the Federation of Uganda Football Associations (FUFA) and stakeholders at the headquarters in Mengo.
“Keep together in the CECAFA region. The success of African football depends in the success of each of the members in the continent,” added Dr. Motsepe who arrived in Uganda on Thursday for a two day official visit.
On behalf of CECAFA, the President who is also the President of the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF), Wallace Karia thanked Dr. Motsepe for sparing time to visit some CECAFA members including Uganda.
“We thank the CAF President for visiting members in the region. We shall work hard as CECAFA to make sure that we bring about football development,” said Karia.
Dr. Motsepe also thanked the government of Uganda for the support they continue to give football in the country. He made it clear that the good results of Ugandan football speaks a lot about the good leadership of the Federation under Moses Hassim Magogo, also an executive Committee member of CAF.
Magogo, the FUFA President thanked the CAF President for visiting Uganda. Dr. Motsepe and some members of the FUFA executive were expected to meet the Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Anita Annet Among and the Uganda President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni later on Friday.
Dr. Motsepe who started his visit to Ethiopia, South Sudan and Uganda will today travel to Seychelles and later Algeria.