Striker Dickens Kilama, 18, a product of Uganda’s Football for Good Academy (FFG), has signed a professional contract to join Spanish side, Gibraltar’s Europa Point Football Club.
Kilama becomes the first international professional to emerge from FFG, which is in it’s fourth year of operation in Uganda.
Football for Good Academy founder and director Adrian Bradbury noted;
This is an opportunity that Kilama has definitely earned. Kilama continues to grow as a player and as a person, and we’re excited at this first step into Europe for him and FFG. His potential is unlimited and his character is already world-class. He will represent us well.
Originally from Agago, in North-Eastern Uganda, Kilama is a powerful striker who was a member of FFG’s first recruiting class.
He has also been with the national U20 squad, while being a part of the FFG program since it’s inception in January of 2015.
Kilama was in Spain in March, where had training stints at Segunda B’s ‘Merida AD’ and Europa Point FC, where he inked his first professional deal.
FFG, based in Gulu, is Uganda’s top full-time residential youth football academy and scholarship program. FFG provides the best young footballers in Uganda with a scholarship that gives them full-time football training, international coaching and exposure, as well as an exemplary academic and character development program.
FFG currently has 43 full-time student-athletes, both boys and girls, from across Uganda and East Africa, including Gulu, Kitgum, Lira, Arua, Kiryandongo, Jinja, Kenya & South Sudan. FFG currently trains and
plays in three groups (U13, U15 & U17).
Kilama is back in Uganda and will train with FFG in May and June before he moves to Gibraltar in July for the 2018-19 Europa Point FC campaign.
