03 March 2011
UGANDA : Power in race against time as league looms
By Ismail Dhakaba Kigongo
In the coming few weeks, the DMark Power management team faces a definitive moment before the 2011 MTN-Fuba League gets underway next month.
Almost the entire team is yet to renew their current deals that ran out at the end of last season but none has been offered a new contract yet.
Captain Norman Blick, his deputy Isaac Afidra, play-offs MVP Ben Komakech and league top scorer Joseph Ikong will have to put pen to paper again to feature in Power’s title defence. In separate interviews, the quartet confirmed this unison. “It’s true we don’t have contracts but the good thing here is that Power is a family which everyone is proud to be part of,” Ikong said recently.
All four represented Uganda at the Fiba Africa Zone V Nations Championships in Kigali, Rwanda hence the delayed negotiations with the club boss Alex Kasendwa.
Repeated efforts to reach Kasendwa are yet to bear any fruit. However, now that the same management also has Makerere Youth Heaters gaining promotion to Division One, he faces an issue of prioritising one team over the other.
Sources within the club intimated to this newspaper that Power have been trying to land the UCU Canons duo of Ivan Enabu and Jimmy Enabu. The former finished his undergraduate course at the university and is unlikely to play for them again.
In an interview with Daily Monitor, point guard Komakech reiterated his commitment to Power despite being approached by losing finalists Kyambogo Warriors and former side Miracle Eagles.
In the coming few weeks, the DMark Power management team faces a definitive moment before the 2011 MTN-Fuba League gets underway next month.
Almost the entire team is yet to renew their current deals that ran out at the end of last season but none has been offered a new contract yet.
Captain Norman Blick, his deputy Isaac Afidra, play-offs MVP Ben Komakech and league top scorer Joseph Ikong will have to put pen to paper again to feature in Power’s title defence. In separate interviews, the quartet confirmed this unison. “It’s true we don’t have contracts but the good thing here is that Power is a family which everyone is proud to be part of,” Ikong said recently.
All four represented Uganda at the Fiba Africa Zone V Nations Championships in Kigali, Rwanda hence the delayed negotiations with the club boss Alex Kasendwa.
Repeated efforts to reach Kasendwa are yet to bear any fruit. However, now that the same management also has Makerere Youth Heaters gaining promotion to Division One, he faces an issue of prioritising one team over the other.
Sources within the club intimated to this newspaper that Power have been trying to land the UCU Canons duo of Ivan Enabu and Jimmy Enabu. The former finished his undergraduate course at the university and is unlikely to play for them again.
In an interview with Daily Monitor, point guard Komakech reiterated his commitment to Power despite being approached by losing finalists Kyambogo Warriors and former side Miracle Eagles.
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