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Africa-Press<\/a> – Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Spoken like a true adopted Irishman, Charles Livingstone Mbabazi\u2019s first question about his \u201csecond home\u201d city of Dublin was unexpected but, with the benefit of hindsight, very much par for the course.\u201cHow is the weather in Dublin?\u201d he jokingly asks.Upon hearing that it was freezing cold and had briefly been snowing on what\u2019s supposed to be a springtime Monday morning, he could only chuckle.The 40-year-old was brought back in his mind to his first visit to Ireland\u2019s capital, as a hopeful kid with Premier League dreams immediately hit with a bad dose of the Irish weather\u2019s cold reality.<\/p>\n

The start<\/b><\/p>\n

The football bug bit Charles in school, playing and captaining his secondary school side and his country at underage level, before becoming one of the coaches in school as well as a player at just 14-years-old in his second year.A wandering early career ran in parallel. KCCA and Express at home, then away to the UAE, and back to Africa with ASEC Mimosas in the Ivory Coast, coming through the club at the same time as the likes of Kolo Toure, Didier Zokora, and Aruna Dindane.He was present for the club\u2019s famous 1998 CAF Champions League victory, where a mostly-homegrown squad that won eight out of nine prior Ivorian titles finally clinched the continental crown against Zimbabwe\u2019s Dynamos Harare.<\/p>\n

Arab affair<\/b><\/p>\n

The senior international scene came calling for his services in \u201998, and further short stints at Al-Ahly in Egypt and KCCA back in Uganda followed.A performance of his against big-hitters Senegal earned him a trip to Argentina on trial, but it was a fateful meeting.\u201cAfter the game, an agent called John Fashanu from England, I think you\u2019ve heard of him!\u201d he laughs. \u201cI had a chat with him, he said he\u2019d like to sign me, to manage my career.\u201cAfter a few months, he gave me a call and said he wanted me to come for trials with West Ham. \u201cBut I had a problem with the visa, and the Embassy didn\u2019t want to sort it out, so I didn\u2019t travel.\u201cSo he suggested there\u2019s a club called St Patrick\u2019s in the Republic of Ireland, he has a friend who knows a guy called Pat Dolan.\u201cHe told me I can join them for a bit for pre-season, he said after playing in Dublin it would be easier for me to go to England.\u201cSo, I decided to come to Dublin, and try my luck!\u201d Protracted negotiations ensued to get Charles over to Ireland for what seemed to just be a stepping stone to progressing to the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Freezing cold<\/b><\/p>\n

And his first thoughts after stepping off the plane to Dublin in 1999? \u201cIt was freezing cold!\u201d Standard really. But the club were on hand to help him warm up, if only a little bit.\u201cTo be honest, my experience, it was completely different to what I\u2019d been used to,\u201d he recalls.\u201cWhen I reached Inchicore I entered the stadium, I had Pat Dolan and Eamonn Collins with me. They said I should go join the training, go to the pitch.\u201cI told Pat: \u2018There\u2019s no way I\u2019m training in this cold\u2019. \u201cSo they gave me a cup of coffee, they told me \u2018here, you\u2019ll feel warm\u2019, and I was sent out to join the lads on the field.\u201dThe buzz of the trip quickly gave way to the reality of the League of Ireland grind.It\u2019s rare imports make an instant impact, and Mbabazi was no exception.<\/p>\n

Not understood<\/b><\/p>\n

The perishing weather in the days preceding summer football, and a rapid pressing style of play pelting you with tackles and no time to drag one\u2019s feet – plus he took a while to thoroughly understand.\u201cI played with big players in Africa, big boys who\u2019d go on to play for big teams in Europe, but the style of football here was different,\u201d he says.\u201cThe pace was high, the pace was so high, and the pitches were freezing.\u201cAnother problem was the language. The Irish-English is different from the English we\u2019re used to in Uganda.\u201cThey were talking all the time and the things they were saying, I could not understand.\u201cIt took me a few weeks, a few months to really understand what they were saying. \u201cAfter a while, I started to understand everything, but it wasn\u2019t easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joining champions<\/b><\/p>\n

Charles was also arriving into a Pat\u2019s side accustomed to success. They were the reigning champions, and had won three of the last four league titles.\u201cIt wasn\u2019t easy breaking into that Pat\u2019s team,\u201d he remembers.\u201cAt the time I came over as a wide midfielder and they had Paul Osam, he was at his peak, Martin Russell was playing his game.\u201cI had to be patient, I had to know where I\u2019m coming from and where I want to go.\u201cAfter two, three months, there was a game against Longford. The team was training in the morning and we had the game in the afternoon, and before training Pat told me \u2018you\u2019ll be playing this afternoon\u2019.\u201cI said \u2018no problem\u2019. I\u2019ve been waiting for this chance, I\u2019ve been waiting for my time. I\u2019ve been patient.\u201cLuckily enough, I scored, it was a good goal too. From the centre, I had a good shot. After that game I didn\u2019t look back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Off to Argentina<\/b><\/p>\n

Charles\u2019 game time would begin to surge, but the globetrotting instinct kicked back in when he almost left the Athletic to return to South America before his first season finished.\u201cMy agent called me and said to me did I want to go back to Argentina,\u201d he says. There\u2019s a club in Buenos Aires.\u201cI made a mistake, I said I did not have a club, but when I reached there St Pat\u2019s said they would not release me. They wanted me to come back.\u201dBut he did come back, and he cracked on, falling in love with Inchicore and the Saints faithful.And so he committed to them in the same way they had committed to him, moving his family over to Dublin and immersing himself in the Dublin 8 community.Charles remembers those days fondly, heading out to schools and community projects, recalling his love for the local pubs, and kicking ball with the youngfellas outside his Thomas Street apartment.<\/p>\n

Home again<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201c2000, the league ended, I went back home to see my family,\u201d he says.\u201cBut I came back to Dublin. That year, you know, we had good facilities for training, I was familiar with everything in Dublin, the Irish accent, I had a lot of friends.\u201cWhen I first came over I was living in Inchicore. I was staying in digs with some footballers and an old lady, I forget her name, she was good to me\u2026 and there was another lady, Anne, she\u2019d always show up at the stadium.\u201cBut then I went to Thomas Street, I was renting there. It became a second home for me, Thomas Street, Inchicore, I had so many friends, and everyone was good to us.\u201cMostly it was Andy O\u2019Callaghan, at that time he became the chairman, he moved me into his apartment, and he tried everything, his level best, to see that I enjoyed my football.\u201cHe suggested that I move my family to Dublin, so I came back with my wife and my daughter Shivan.\u201cI\u2019ll never forget Andy, he was too good to me. One day I\u2019ll be back in Dublin and I\u2019ll give him something, I cannot thank him enough for everything he gave to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uefa Cup goal<\/b><\/p>\n

Charles played for Pat\u2019s for another three years, and while it wasn\u2019t as trophy-laden a spell as the previous decade, he did get his hands on the League Cup in 2003 and managed to score in the Uefa Cup for the club, most notably against Croatians Rijeka in the Saints\u2019 first ever win in a European tie.Officially, that\u2019s all Pat\u2019s won anyway, after a registration error involving Charles saw them docked 15 points in 2001\/02, denying them the league title in favour of Dublin rivals Shelbourne.Charles himself sees it a little differently, however. \u201cWe won the League Cup, and we also won the League,\u201d he says.\u201cApart from, well, I know there was some controversy over my registration\u2026 but we managed to win it that year.\u201cI did my job. My work was to play football.\u201cApart from that, my third year in Dublin, I can\u2019t forget it. We won the League and then the League Cup, I was the top scorer for the club, I won the Young Player of the Year, I was St Pat\u2019s Player of the Year.\u201cAfter that I had offers from Shelbourne, Bohemians, England, but I decided to stay in Inchicore. It had become my second home.\u201d But his stay in his second home came to a screeching halt just weeks after that League Cup win, however.<\/p>\n

Chest pains<\/b><\/p>\n

While playing against Bohemians in the League, Charles collapsed after feeling pains in his chest. \u201cThe first half, I wasn\u2019t comfortable breathing,\u201d he remembers.\u201cI saw Eamonn Collins, by that time he\u2019d become the manager, and I said I could keep playing. \u201cBut then after two minutes, I think, I collapsed. The next thing I remember I\u2019m in the hospital, St James\u2019.\u201cThey gave me some tablets and Eamonn came to visit, and after like three days the doctors let me out.\u201dCharles trails off, his jovial voice falling quiet. His life was sadly no stranger to tragedy up to that point.The AIDS pandemic had affected his family, with four of his siblings contracting the deadly disease. He lost a brother and his father within hours of each other while he was in Dublin. Charles decided to stay in Ireland at the time and throw himself into his passion, scoring just days later against Bray Wanderers.That same passion that had sustained him could now potentially kill him. While in St James\u2019, he was diagnosed with a heart condition called Kawasaki disease, and told he couldn\u2019t play again.<\/p>\n

Cup final loss<\/b><\/p>\n

Charles stayed involved with the first team but broke down after Pat\u2019s lost the 2003 FAI Cup Final to Longford. He told the Irish Independent at the time: \u201cThat was one of the most difficult nights that I\u2019ve ever faced. Everything just came in on top of me. I kept thinking that game would be my last involvement with St Pat\u2019s.\u201dBut he was determined to keep the dream alive, so he sought some more advice.\u201cI came back home, I saw my doctor, and then I travelled to Italy to see a specialist,\u201d he says\u201cThey told me that the time I collapsed, it was a blood clot. They prescribed me medication, they told me after a few months the clot will have disappeared.\u201dBut regardless of the breakthrough, the risks associated with his condition meant the insurance costs in Ireland effectively ended his Pat\u2019s career.\u201cWhen I came back to Ireland to play football, it wasn\u2019t possible,\u201d he recalls. \u201cWith the insurance, it was too expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coaching badges<\/b><\/p>\n

The club set him up for life after football. He began coaching with the underage sides, and also became the club\u2019s community officer. A natural evolution for a man so beloved.That wouldn\u2019t do for Charles, though. He still wanted to play as long as he knew he still could. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the same as playing, sitting behind a desk, it wasn\u2019t for me,\u201d he said.\u201cI had a chat with my wife and I decided to come back home. \u201cI started back playing in my local sports club, our team was called St Pat\u2019s! And Andy O\u2019Callaghan sponsored us.\u201cBut then my agent said there\u2019s a club in Vietnam, and the insurance is not so high, so I decided to go for the trial.\u201cThey decided to offer me a contract, and I stayed there for five years. I played for ACB and then the champions Binh Duong.\u201cIn my final year I became a player\/coach and I won a cup with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

First job<\/b><\/p>\n

And as his second career wound down, Charles\u2019 mind turned to his third – full-time coaching. He\u2019d been doing it since he was in secondary school after all.His first big job in Uganda was with Bright Stars in Matugga, before another unique opportunity came calling – the national team job with Somalia.\u201cIt was tough there in Somalia, you know, with what\u2019s going on there,\u201d Charles says. \u201cI stayed there for one year, but I decided to come home . I was coaching Bright Stars, I was offered the job of the under-20 national team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mbabazi at a glance<\/b><\/p>\n

Early Fame.<\/b><\/p>\n

A product of the Copa Coca Cola Secondary Schools\u2019 Championships, Mbabazi shot to fame while still at Lubiri SSS. He was a midfield maestro of good positioning, great poise, passing ability and shooting from range. Top Clubs Shifts. He was picked up by KCCA whilst still in High School. He also played for archrivals Express and was picked to play for Uganda Cranes in the late 90s for the first time.Journey Man. In terms of character, Mbabazi is renowned for always being on the move both as a player and coach. The nomad in him has seen Mbabbazi coach Lweza, Wandegeya, Mbarara City, Onduparaka, Kyetume in a short span.<\/p>\n

This article was adopted Dublin Live and retouched by Sunday Monitor Sports Desk<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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