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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Today marks a year since the death of Uganda Cranes captain Jimmy Kirunda, who led the team to the 1978 Africa Cup of Nations final.<\/p>\n

There aren\u2019t any memorials planned for Kirunda today. However, the football fraternity will spend it laying to rest another ex-player, Peter Wandyete, who passed on Sunday at the age of 66.<\/p>\n

It is tough phase. Yesterday, former Uganda referees\u2019 association chairman Prof. Isaac Kigongo Bukenya was laid to rest after his passing on Saturday.<\/p>\n

He also taught at Makerere Univeristy.<\/p>\n

While Bukenya made his mark as a referee and later as an administrator, also serving as a Fufa delegate, Wandyete was a famous footballer in the 70s and 80s.<\/p>\n

Wandyete won five league titles and five Uganda Cups at KCCA. He added the 1978 Cecafa Kagame Club Championship, a feat the club didn\u2019t repeat until 2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018Umbwa Kali\u2019<\/p>\n

A well-built tenacious defender, Wandyete earned the name \u201cUmbwa Kali\u201d (fierce dog) for his no-nonsesnse approach to the game.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this character that helped then Mbale-based Gangama United earn promotion to the topflight in 1975. That fanned the move to KCCA soon after and a call up to the national team under coach David Otti.<\/p>\n

At KCCA, Wandyete played alongside Kirunda and Tom Lwanga in an iron-clad defence.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was the kind of teammate you wanted because he had your back, always,\u201d Lwanga says.<\/p>\n

Tom Ddamulira, a friend of Wandyete and a lifelong KCCA fan and sports pundit, thinks the deceased was one who was \u201cwilling to die for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI first saw him in 1976 when he was still a squad player. He wasn\u2019t the most technically gifted but the most willing to work. I have always advocated for such a player,\u201d Ddamulira says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a typical man-marker and a tackler who had so many sliding tackles when [hard] tackling was still allowed in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wandyete spent 13 years at KCCA before moving to Bell in 1988 where he was also appointed a coach alongside Polly Ouma, another hero of the 1978 Afcon finals.<\/p>\n

The Lugogo hierarchy would later recall Wandyete as an assistant coach and he went on to win the 1994 Uganda Cup with the club.<\/p>\n

He was sacked in 1995.<\/p>\n

Wandyete\u2019s later life was not pretty as he descended into alcoholism and was locked out of Lugogo when he attempted to watch KCCA\u2019s home matches many times.<\/p>\n

He was frail and barely recognisable from the imposing frame in his playing days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can attribute the drinking to the retrenchment of government employees in the early 90s,\u201d Ddamulira says of the footballer he once admired.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe lost his job at KCCA and slid into depression. It\u2019s not that he was a drunkard as he could control it when he was an active player.\u201d<\/p>\n

ikigongo@ug.nationmedia.com<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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