KCCA FC head coach Brian Ssenyondo has challenged the membership’s younger gamers to show they’re prepared for senior soccer, insisting that alternatives will include duty to carry out.
Ssenyondo has reaffirmed KCCA’s dedication to selling academy expertise into the primary group however careworn that being a younger participant won’t robotically assure a beginning place.
“The kids are the way forward for this membership, and we’ll maintain giving them alternatives,” Ssenyondo stated.
The coach believes KCCA’s academy ought to stay the primary feeder to the senior group, pointing to the membership’s long-standing custom of creating gamers who perceive its values from an early age.
KCCA at the moment has a big variety of first-team gamers who’ve progressed by way of its improvement ranks, together with Mind Jjara, Derrick Ssozi, Alfred Ssebunya, Anthony Emojong, Ashraf Lukyamuzi, Saidi Mayanja, James Mubezi and Ismail Fahad.
A number of of the academy graduates have additionally represented Uganda at totally different youth ranges earlier than progressing into senior soccer.
Ssenyondo, who beforehand dealt with Uganda’s U17 nationwide group, says his expertise of watching younger gamers progress into the Uganda Premier League {and professional} soccer has strengthened his perception in youth improvement.
Nonetheless, the 2026/27 KCCA coach needs his younger gamers to show that they will compete at senior degree moderately than merely profit from the membership’s youth coverage.
“We should discover a stability to discipline these gamers and in addition keep aggressive,” he stated.
“After all, it isn’t only a matter of fielding the youth gamers, however of them displaying they will compete with the large boys and present they’re prepared for senior soccer.”
The emphasis on youth comes alongside new FUFA competitors rules requiring golf equipment to incorporate at the least 5 U21 gamers of their matchday squads, with two U21 gamers required to be on the pitch at any given time.
For KCCA, the rules present extra alternatives for academy graduates, however Ssenyondo insists efficiency will stay the figuring out issue.
The coach is due to this fact tasked with hanging a stability between giving KCCA’s subsequent era priceless first-team publicity and preserving the membership aggressive in its pursuit of prime honours.
“We have now to develop a powerful expertise pool of kids but additionally keep dedicated to competing for prime honours,” Ssenyondo added.
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