Who to blame for SC Villa’s current misery?
SC Villa are Uganda’s top tier record champions having won the title on sixteen (16) occassions, the statement would mean the Club is the most looked up to in Uganda but that is far different from what the club looks like now.
SC villa was founded in 1975 and became a threat starting from the 80s and have won the country’s top tier league in 1982, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004. Being the most succesifull club in the country woud mean they are now strategically positioned but are still facing provocations suffered by new league entrants.
The club being faced by the problem of lacking where play from justifies the statement, “ the people at the helm of the cub earlier didn’t plan well to sort such a problem”. One would ask a question, “what do they show now to represent their success fetched in the early days?”. Playing at namboole this year, shifting to Nakivubo,Ssingo and masaka is not a characteristic of a good or succesiful club. This actually deprives a club of firstly a stable/a growing audience (fan base) as it denies the club originality. It still chases away sponsors as the club looks like it is not serious.
The question now is who to blame for the club’s current misery. The succes or failing of any institution will always be attributed to who runs or ran the system at the time when things had to be given a right direction. Taking at a look of club presidents between the 80s and 2000s will probably help to answer this. The club’s successiful reign saw only two club president between 1979 and 2010.
To start with is Patrick Edward Mayengo Kawooya who was the club’s second president after Daniel Musoke Kiwalabye. He took on the reign assuming office through consensus with founding members and served from 1979 - December 1993. His sporting achievements can never the less be underlooked as he accounts for half of the clubs success in the Uganda Premier League, he also guide the club to four (4) Uganda cup titles and one CECAFA Club championship title.
The other succesiful club President was Franco Mugabe who took over after Patrick Edward Mayengo Kawooya in December 1993. This one assumed office through Delegate Members' Election and was in charge of the club up to 2010. He accounts for the other half of the club’s sixteen league trophies. Like his predecessor, Mugabe won four Uganda Cup titles but had two CECAFA Club Champions unlike Mayengo Kawooya who won one.
The two personalities will always be remembered for driving the club to these succeses but will also take the blame and trouble to explain how these succeses were used to determine a bright future ahead of the club if by now they are one of those who find hard time to pay players, to find where to play from and the deteriorating fan base.
