The national football governing body, Ferwafa, has urged local women football clubs to step up their performance and get ready for international competitions.

These remarks were made by Ferwafa president Brig. Gen. John Bosco Kazura during a meeting with difference women football clubs held on last Friday at the federation headquarters in Remera.

Kazura disclosed to the club leaders that women football has been stepped up to the national level and that it should have the right structure right from the grassroot.

"The money given to you is not for your personal use, no. It is for developing women football at club and national team levels,” Kazura said.

He reminded those who attended the meeting to start making annual reports to the federation as well as always attending training workshops.

Officiating at the meeting Ferwafa vice president Vedaste Kayiranga noted that the nuisances encountered in the previous seasons should not be given a chance to resurface in the coming season.

"We want players who can compete in international events not those who play for the fun of it.

"You should start developing the good players in your (respective) clubs after here,” Kairanga said urging members to look for young players in secondary schools.

Girls under the age of 20 years, Kairanga said, are still in good shape to develop into professionals when provided good training in their clubs.

Of the 11 clubs registered in Ferwafa only seven remain active after four dropped out in the return leg of the championship league citing financial incapability.

Kairanga told club presidents to stop relying on Ferwafa handouts and start to seek sponsorship from private companies so that they develop financial muscles and keep active.

Eight clubs (the active seven plus an eighth yet to be named) are planned to compete in next year’s league scheduled to get underway in February.

The local football federation has plans to put together a well organize national team which would tour Germany and play several matches in April next year.

Club presidents were given until January 15, 2008 to forward (to Ferwafa) their statutes so that they legible to compete in the next league as legal members. Legality, they were told, would give them a place in the General Assembly.

As part of their support towards making the women league competitive, Ferwafa agreed to cater for the teams’ transport and feeding through the season.

Ferwafa’s head of women football, Jean Pierre Bazigangwa told members that the international football governing body (FIFA), in the China October 28-30 general assembly, urged member federations from different countries to develop a full structure of feminine football that respects the ‘Feminine Football is the Future’ goal. 
 
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