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Sunday, June 01, 2014
Student wins Guinness cash
WINNER: Moini receives dummy check from UBL’s Nakabazzi
KAMPALA, UGANDA - After ten months of football, Denis Moini, a third year Information Technology and Computing student at Kyambogo University, was the overall season winner of Guinness Football Manager, a fantasy football league played on mobile phones with access to internet and computers.
Moini in the process bagged Ush5m (about $1,953) for emerging the overall season manager courtesy Guinness beer marketed in East Africa by East African Breweries Limited a member of Diageo group.
In August last year, former Chelsea player and Champions League-winning coach Roberto Di Matteo was in the country to launch the Guinness Football Manager henceforth giving fans the chance to ‘Be the Boss’ of their very own football team with Guinness Football Manager a free to play, fantasy football league.
The fantasy league gives football fans the chance to take control and manage their own teams by selecting players from clubs in the English Premier League and bring them together in your very own team.
Moini, who was also manager of the month in August, said was undecided on what to use the money for, saying he needed time to make up his mind.
“My friends helped me to select players I used through the season. I am a Manchester united fan but Liverpool’s Luis Suarez helped me alot, also Manchester City players like Yaya Toure were good and when Mata joined Manchester United I put him on my team replacing Rooney. I had a good defense which had Leighton Baines and Per Mertesacker,” Moini told journalists after receiving his cash prize.
Phoebe Nakabazzi the Brand Manager Guinness at Uganda Breweries, a subsidiary of East African Breweries Limited, said the game will return next season with bigger prizes as there is a big connection between Guinness and football.
Other winners Eddie Oketcho, and John Oleng who got Ush1.5m for emerging manager of the month for the month of March, April and May respectively. Over 50 people won monthly prizes since the game was launched.
By Baz Waiswa, Sunday, June 01st, 2014