One successful sporting script on the Lake Victoria peninsular town of Entebbe is well spelt out by the tag, tackle and sprint sport of rugby played at the Entebbe S.S playground christened ‘The House of Pain’.
Entebbe is located on a Lake Victoria peninsula, approximately 37 kilometres southwest of the Ugandan capital Kampala | Photo Credits: africatravelsresource
Remarkably famous for its unending fascinating and adrenaline gasping thrills, Rugby has graduated over the years since the United Kingdom friends from Birmingham City introduced the sport to Entebbe secondary school as far back as 1997.
A quick trek back in the days, enthusiasts Gelson Batuse, Dennis ‘Gobbo’ Maseruka, Ronald Adigas and Isaac Kazibwe picked keen interest from the few donated balls and green-black stripped kit to spread the then virgin game to the masses.
Mongers team with coach Robert Powell | ©Kawowo Sports
Nineteen sweet years down the road, the rest as many attest is now a history chapter whose headline is a worthy following by many an ardent Kawowo Sports keen reader.
Ten years after the UK friends had left, the Entebbe Rugby team which was then featuring in the murky waters of the second division earned promotion to the national senior league in 2007.
Now, at the material moment in time, your guess is as good as mine, the team has performed aloft to the expectations of many year in, year out.
Many elite league clubs as Kobs and Heathens have easily fallen at the dreaded House of Pain. New, usual spectators keep glued on the side lines at the club’s dreaded home, baptized the House of Pain for its surly bare patched ground.
It is fun to hear and learn new terminologies such as Scrum, Pack, line, back line, ruck, maul, on and off side as the tackles, fancy flying down touch tries and penalties keep dominating various eye catching fixtures.
Mongers Richard Bbira races to the touch line at the dreaded house of pain arena in Entebbe | Photo Credits: Kawowo Sports/ David Isabirye
The club’s ascendency has witnessed the spotting, breeding and nurturing of new talents that have earned deserved summons to the respective national 7’s and 15’s mainstream Uganda Rugby Cranes squads.
For the consistent exceptional display time immemorial, financiers have come knocking on the team’s doors with Sadolin Paints as the current club’s running title sponsor.
The acquisition of a new stadium land at Busambaga in Katabi from Entebbe Municipality authorities with full blessings of the patron, Mayor Vincent Kayanja De Paul was yet another true reward and a vivid sign of self-committed display by the unquestionable character from the entire team members, who are united by the common cause to hit the bull’s eye collectively.
“Entebbe Mongers Rugby club is a collection of dedicated individuals with a prime agenda of succeeding to the top against all the conditionality status and odds,” Club legend Kigongo Ssebalamu endorses.
Mongers’ players in action against rivals Heathens | © Kawowo Sports
Entebbe Mongers Rugby Club, the true sporting glory of Entebbe Municipality and the suburbs.
Current Squad: Joseph Tamale, Chris Tukesiga, Joseph Kagimu, John Wandicho (Captain), Richard Bbira, Leone Kyambadde, Lauren Kalule, Andrew Olweny, Simon D’Jang, Kigongo Ssebalamu, Joseph Bulago, Herbert Kato, Adrian Wasswa, Anthony Maiku, Hannington Mukalazi, Jerome Buyonga, David Baseka, Brian Baweite, David Ssempembwa, Deus Mugamye, Simon Wakabi
