Fortebet Real Stars Monthly Awards: Kambale, Kiplimo Among the Best of May
Finally the brilliant performance of Eric Kambale, Jacob Kiplimo and two more others in the month of May reap them big
The quartet of Jacob Kiplimo from Athletics discipline, Eric Kambale from Football, Thomas Opio of Hockey and Faizal Ade from Basketball and all fully awarded by the Fortebet Real Stars Sports Agency at an event held at Route256 Lugogo on Tuesday midmorning.
The Express FC sharp shooter, Eric Kambale win the May gong after banging eight goals in the month of May beating URA’s forward,Steven Desse Mukwala and his fellow teammate, and a custodian Mathias Muwanga.
Wanainci Hockey Club’s Thomas Opio beat Weatherhead duo Timothy Ntumba and Charles Ekapolon to the hockey accolade and the lad thanked the Organizers for thinking about the game of hockey and revealed how the award will help him and fellow players in the game to hype competition in the game.
“I thank the organizers for thinking about us, this will increase the competition in the sport better knowing that something will come at the end of the day.” Opio told this website after receiving the Award at Route256.
For starters, this is the first time for the game of Hockey to appear on the winners list of Real Stars Sports Awards since it’s inauguration in 2018.
Jacob Kiplimo emerged winner in the athletic category beating Joshua Cheptegei and Presca Achesa.
In the basketball category, it is KIU Taitans’ Ade Faisal who walked away with it at the expense of JKL Lady Dolphin’s Hope Akello and Ndejje Angels’ Samuel Ajaka.
The event hosted the Uganda Tourism Board Marketing Specialist, Herman Olimi appreciated the innitiative put in place and he promised the organizers tht he is taking the feedback to his bosses and pledged to help in linking the Agency with the UTB.
“Today I came as a person to witness the event and how organized this agency is, but I am very impressed with what I have seen. I am going to take the feedback to my bosses and in future, you never know UTB might be on board. As UTB we can’t work alone, we work with partners and that why you see we are also in Sports.” Herman Olimi.
Isaac Mukasa, the Agency’s CEO, asserted that they are seeing some great development in the sports industry, Competition is increasing and revealed that they are receiving a number of calls from various disciplines requesting them to start monitoring their work.
“Since we started this work, their is great improvement, people are calling us to start monitoring their performances, now look, today we got Hockey, we have never been with them before but they were on our neck requesting us to follow them, so we are going somewhere.”
Fortebet Uganda, Canaan Investment and Jude Color Solutions are the big brands behind the great innitiative.