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Masaza report card: Year of Covid-19 leaves room for more
Saturday January 23 2021
Finalists. Gomba players celebrate a goal against Ssese during the group matches. The team held off Busiro before outwitting them in the penultimate shootouts to qualify for the finals. Photo/Agencies
Summary
Organisers and sponsors Airtel pushed ahead with the tournament but at the cost of no fans and several challenges for the teams due to Covid-19 measures
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Without a doubt, this season’s Airtel Masaza Cup was the weirdest year since the tournament started in 2004. A coronavirus pandemic was only part of it.
The tournament defied the odds and the headaches of working around Covid-19 and the stringent health protocols to become only the third competition to be played in Uganda since March 2020. The others are the StarTimes Uganda Premier League and the Fufa play-offs which have majorly benefitted from direct funding from world body, Fifa.