Following their win in the just concluded NSSF KAVC International Volleyball Tournament, the oldest volleyball club in Uganda, KAVC, held a trophy tour across Kampala. The team, led by their head coach Shilla Omuriwe Buyungo and joined by international star Kathbart Malinga and Daudi Okello, stopped by offices of their main sponsors, NSSF. They handed over the trophies to NSSF Deputy MD, Patrick Ayota.
Shilla said they had promised to fight for the trophy and keep it home.
“We are glad we are bringing it here to present it to you as the main sponsors of the tournament”.
Ayota thanked the team and said he had learnt a lot from the tournament
“My biggest lesson from the game was that size and height is not strength. You do not have to be the tallest or biggest to win. You must hang in there to the end. Even when you were two games down, you fought and eventually won,” Ayota told the KAVC team.
They then proceeded to SMS One offices , Pepsi Cola and New Vision.
Uganda Volleyball team made a brilliant comeback at the NSSF KAVC International Volleyball tournament this year. Uganda’s KAVC beat Rwanda National team Gisagara VC to clinch the men’s 2018 trophy while Ndejje University tussled it out with Nkumba University and matched to victory taking the Women’s Trophy.
The tournament, which is billed to be the biggest and best so far, attracted a full house at Lugogo Sports Arena. Fans were packed to the rafters to support the Uganda KAVC giants who were inching to snatch the trophy away from Rwanda. Rwandan men’s teams have taken the trophy for 3 consecutive years since 2015, while the Rwandan women’s teams have dominated the championship wins since 2014. So it was total comeback for team Uganda to clinch both trophies.
