{"id":6853,"date":"2020-04-11T13:58:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=6853"},"modified":"2020-04-11T13:58:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T13:58:03","slug":"kagere-mainland-league-best-eac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sport\/kagere-mainland-league-best-eac","title":{"rendered":"KAGERE: MAINLAND LEAGUE BEST EAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> RWANDAN international striker and Simba SC star Meddie Kagere believes the Mainland Premier League is the best in the region.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask, \u2018what is the best football league in East Africa\u2019 to football fans in the region, you will get different answers with many praising their own home leagues mostly based on national pride.<\/p>\n<p>But for Kagere, who has featured for different clubs in four countries in the region including Uganda, Rwanda, Kenya and currently Tanzania, believes the Mainland top flight is more competitive and fans are more passionate than the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Rwanda\u2019s KT Press from his home in Kigali where he is staying with his family after football activities were suspended almost all over the world due to the coronavirus pendemic, Kagere said other leagues in the region should learn a thing or two from the Tanzanian top-flight football.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The competition here in Rwanda is not as much as the competition in Tanzania. All clubs (in Tanzania) compete to do better. They all want to beat my club Simba,\u201d Kagere said.<\/p>\n<p>With some of top teams in Rwanda embracing the policy to sign only Rwandan players, Kagere believes this could have affected the competition in Rwandan football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are not many foreign players that can bring competition among local players. In Tanzania most teams have foreign players and when a team like Yanga feels that Simba has brought a good player they also have to sign a good player and that brings more competition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The striker, who finished top scorer last season with 23 goals leading his team to the league victory, hailed Tanzanian fans as the most passionate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey love their teams and like the games. They don\u2019t miss any game even if games are held in the village they will go and watch but it\u2019s totally different in Kenya where you sometimes have to play in almost empty stadiums and some of the fans don\u2019t even know when their team is playing,\u201d Kagere said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is also no competition when it comes to Kenya. There is only one team and that\u2019s Gor Mahia. When I was there we used to play knowing that we are going to win the league. We went to play games being sure we were going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kagere urged Rwandan players to always challenge themselves if they want to make it elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy advice to my fellow Rwandan players is that you have to challenge yourself if you want something. I started from down; I came to Atraco it didn\u2019t work and I started afresh, then Kiyovu, Mukura and Police FC. There was a lot of competition but I said I have to reach somewhere,\u201d the international striker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to be on the top, know it\u2019s very hard to get there but it\u2019s very easy to go down. It depends on your character.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfricaPress-Tanzania: RWANDAN international striker and Simba SC star Meddie Kagere believes the Mainland Premier League is the best in the region. 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