Daily Monitor
Saturday January 30 2021
Summary
Joel Madondo was born on June 5, 1998,in Jinja, eastern Uganda.
The young forward won the National Copa Coca Cola championship in 2017 with Jinja SSS and was named on Copa team of the year after top scoring in the championship with 14 goals.
He has also won the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup with Uganda Cranes (2019).
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In one of his famous motivational lines, the author of “Power of Positive thinking,” Vincent Pearle goaded: Aim for the moon and if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
This line must have reverberated in Joel Madondo’s mind when he emerged top scorer of the 2017 Copa Coca Cola as his school Jinja SSS became the first upcountry school to upset the traditional order of their Kampala and Buganda counterparts.