By James Robert Kayindi
It’s less than a month since SC Villa sacked Steven Bogere as the senior team head coach; he has now turned to suing the club after failing to get a job. SC Villa management sacked Coach Steven Bogerere on 30th September, 2014 after he lost a game against Police FC at the Kavumba Recreational Center in Wakiso district.
However the club officials claim that they didn’t do sack him as the media reported. The club claim that he was simply demoted and was to be sent to South Africa to study a six-month coaching course which would upgrade his skills in the game and then return to take on the youth structures of the club upon completing the course.
Reports claim that he rejected the offer and forwarded the matter to his lawyers who then wrote back to the club. Bogere has also refused to return the car that was given to him by the club and the club also claim that they had no official contract with the ex-coach.
“It should be noted that we do not have a contract with Bogere. For the time he was with us, it was purely on a paid probation basis as we evaluated his performance with an aim of recruiting him in future. We found his performances wanting and thus arranged for him to go that course to attain more training, which he refused to take up”, reads a statement on the club’s official facebook page.
However, Bogere insists he signed a contract with the club. “I signed a two-year contract with them on July 16 but they stubbornly refused to give me my cop,” he told Monitor.
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