Uganda to attend first CAF symposium on women's football in Africa

   KAMPALA, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The Federation of Uganda Football Association (FUFA) will be part of the first ever symposium on women's football in Africa. Organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), the symposium will take place in the Moroccan town of Marrakesh on March 5-6.

   "This is a very good chance for us to deliberate on women's football and also to come up with new ideas to make it better," Humphrey Mandu, the Uganda FA Assistant CEO, said on Sunday.

   Uganda will also be represented by Florence Nakiwala Kiyingi, FA Vice President in-charge of the League and Agnes Mugena, a representative of women's football with the FA. The symposium will be held under the theme 'Raise our Game' and will be organized by CAF in partnership with the Royal Moroccan Football Federation.

   Amr Fahmy, CAF General Secretary, highlighted that the important event will be attended by numerous experts, consultants and legends. The goal is to elaborate a roadmap and a strategy for development and the promotion of women's football across the continent.

   Some of the topics that will be discussed in groups include; how to expand the practice of women's football, means of development of sponsorship for women's football and the role of women's football in gender promotion and socialization.

   Isha Johansen, President of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), is the head of the Confederations of African Football (CAF) Women's Football Committee.

   She was appointed at the inaugural meeting of the CAF Executive Committee which took place in May last year in Manama, Bahrain, on the margin of the 67th FIFA Congress.  Enditem