El Hadji Diouf Visit to Uganda (Tentative programme):
Arrival: Thursday, 3rd January 2019
Charity Game Vs Kenzo XI: Friday, 4th January 2019. He will grace Eddie Kenzo Music concert at Serena on Friday night.
Two time African footballer of the year El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf, 37, is set to visit Uganda early 2019.
The Senegalese retired footballer’s visit to the Eastern African country christened as the Pearl of Africa has been organized by BET Award winning musician Edrisa ‘Eddie Kenzo’ Musuuza in joint collaboration with Wakiso Giants Football Club, a FUFA Big League side.
Kent Abdallah Junior, member of organising team
El Hadji Diouf will be visiting Uganda early January 2019. He is expected to arrive at Entebbe International Airport on 3rd January 2019. The following day, he will play football in a charity game at Lugogo where Uganda Cranes stars as Brian Umony have been confirmed. He will also grace the Eddie Kenzo 10 years celebrations music show at Serena Hotel in Kampala
Named the finest African footballer of the year in 2001 and 2002, El Hadji Diouf, a former winger –cum-forward was also the BBC footballer of year in 2001 and made the FIFA World Cup team in 2002 co-hosted by South Korea and Japan where Senegal reached the quarter finals.
Born in Dakar, the Senegalese capital city, El Hadji Diouf. He was initially a goalkeeper in his early stages with a Senegalese local team before he moved to France at a tender age.
Vastly skilled, the peroxide-blond kick started his serious football career in France at Rennes and Sochaux youth teams before he graduated into their senior teams and later Lens (2000 and 2002).
He later shifted to the United Kingdom and had spells at Liverpool, Bolton Wanderers, Sunderland, Black Burn Rovers, Doncaster Rovers and Leeds United.
El Hadji Diouf also had a spell in Scotland with Rangers and completed his playing career at Sabah in the United Arab Emirates for one season (2014–2015).
He won the Football league cup with Liverpool in 2003 as well a double in Scotland with Rangers winning the Scottish league cup and premier league in 2011.
By and large, Diouf played 486 career matches, scoring 70 goals.
El Hadji Diouf remains a celebrity in his native Senegal and across Africa for his unquestionable footballing skills and massive wealth accumulated.
He now lives in Dakar, Senegal and works as Government goodwill ambassador and adviser on sports to President Macky Sall.
Diouf also runs his own sports newspaper business in Dakar, often operating his own gymnasium.
Of late, he also announced venturing into active politics. He is happily married to Valerie Diouf with one off spring Kenza Diouf.
At the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea, Diouf had spearheaded an unfancied Senegal side that reached the quarter-finals against the odds. In his first match of the tournament, he had been the standout performer as Les Lions de la Teranga defeated reigning champions France, overcoming a team that included the likes of Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Lilian Thuram and Marcel Desailly. Senegal went on to beat Sweden in the round of 16 before losing out to Turkey in the quarters, but Diouf’s frenetic showings up front were enough to earn him a place in the World Cup All-Star team. Bizarrely, considering the reputational damage he had incurred at that point, he was also included in the ‘FIFA 100’, a list of the greatest living footballers as chosen by Pelé in 2004.
I love to see him coming to ug we as LFC fans well come him warmly in the pale of Africa