{"id":15676,"date":"2021-08-13T15:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2021-08-13T15:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:04:49","slug":"clubs-in-a-fix-ahead-of-big-league-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/clubs-in-a-fix-ahead-of-big-league-playoffs","title":{"rendered":"Clubs in a fix ahead of Big League playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Several clubs have found themselves in a tight situation after Fufa announced dates for the Big League playoffs. Fufa confirmed the playoffs for August 15 and17after President Yoweri Museveni relaxed some restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 including lifting the lockdown and allowing sports to continue.But the clubs involved have since seen coaches leave and some key players moving on to other clubs but Fufa insists only players holding licenses for the 2020\/21 season are eligible to play for the respective clubs.\u201cThe Competitions Directorate has scheduled Big League playoffs to take place on August 15-17 at [the] Fufa Technical Centre-Njeru,\u201d Fufa Competitions Director Aisha Nalule ordered before guiding that: \u201cReporting date will be on 14th August, the licenses for 2020\/21 are the ones to be used\u201d and that \u201ceach team should have a contingent of 25 people.\u201dClubs in a fixGaddafi will play Nyamityobora in the first playoff on Sunday before Proline faces Blacks Powers in the second.The winners of both fixtures will face next Tuesday to determine who will be promoted alongside Arua Hill and Tooro United to the top flight. However, with days to the games, Nyamityobora head coach Richard Makumbi complained of failure to reconvene all his players due to disagreement with management.\u201cI have only ten players ready to feature in the playoffs,\u201d Makumbi was quoted by Football256. \u201cThings are hard. I am scared that the administration has not shown interest in the games ahead but I am trying to look for a quick solution.\u201dBlacks Power that faces Proline had to request for the services of Saleh Mwaye as a quick fix after their head coach Peter Ong\u2019odia threw in the towel after the grueling regular season.Arua Hill is struggling to find a solution for Hussein Mbalangu and his assistants who have abandoned their duties and dragged the club to Fufa for alleged breach of contract.Their efforts to capture Livingstone Mbabazi were dealt a huge blow after the coach was appointed as assistant to Milutin \u2018Micho\u2019 Sredojevic\u2019s on the national team and barred from coaching any other club.[email protected]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Several clubs have found themselves in a tight situation after Fufa announced dates for the Big League playoffs. Fufa confirmed the playoffs for August 15 and17after President Yoweri Museveni relaxed some restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the Covid-19 including lifting the lockdown and allowing sports to continue.But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":15675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-15676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Clubs in a fix ahead of Big League playoffs - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Several clubs have found themselves in a tight situation after Fufa announced dates for the Big League playoffs. 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