Uganda: Broken System Continues to Fail Retired Football Players

opinion

All that glistens lustrously is not gold. For Issa Ssekatawa, who was nominally likened to the precious metal when he was at the peak of his powers, that dictum rings ever so true.

After he proved extraordinarily durable as a finisher by winning three proverbial golden boots in succession during the early 1980s, Ssekatawa's gargantuan appetite for goals invited his legions of adoring fans to christen him 'Golden Boy'.

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