The Chief of Defense Forces (CDF), General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has pledged to promote American football in Uganda.
While meeting the former player of Super Bowl Champion Mathias Kiwanuka on Monday, September 2nd, 2024, CDF Muhoozi pledged to directly support his initiatives, which aim to promote American football.
Kiwanuka is a former American professional football player who played as a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL).
A defensive end is a player on the defense of an American football team who stands at the end of the line of scrimmage.
He won two Super Bowl championships with the New York Giants in Super XLII and Super Bowl XLVI.
The National Football League is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference.
American football is a version of the sport of football that evolved from English rugby and soccer (association football); it differs from soccer chiefly in allowing players to touch, throw, and carry the ball with their hands, and it differs from rugby in allowing each side to control the ball in alternating possessions.
The sport, played with 11 on each side, originated in North America, primarily in the United States, where it eventually became the country’s leading spectator sport.
