UCU Lady Cardinals Women Football Club skipper Hasifah Nassuna is determined to achieve bigger things after becoming the first female player to score a century of league goals in Uganda.
She scored her 100th goal as her side lost 2-1 to Kampala Queens at Kabojja early this week.
“I am the happiest person today that finally this record is achieved and I think everyone has been waiting for this,” she said via the FUFA website after the game.
“Well, it came with a bit of pressure but I am delighted that it is out of the way now, and, I’m hoping to even achieve more in the future.”
“A flashback to when the league started, it has been a long way that has come with challenges but I am glad to be the first person to reach such a milestone,” she added.
Where it all bgun for Hasifah Nassuna
The forward broke onto the scene in 2015 when the FUFA Women Elite League was inaugurated at Nabweru Playground as a Kawempe Muslim WFC player.
Nassuna has achieved the feat in a space of seven years and with two clubs, her former club Kawempe Muslim and her current side UCU Lady Cardinals.
Just like her milestone goal against Kampala Queens, it is also worth noting that she scored her first goal seven years ago against Kakira WFC.
Nassuna played for Kawempe for three seasons scoring 14 goals in 2015, 18 in 2016, and 26 in 2017 with the latter being a record itself for the most goals scored in a single season to date.
The Crested Cranes striker was influential as Kawempe won four titles on the bounce before she left for UCU in the 2017/18 season.
Immediately, the Mukono-based side had a hand of its maiden silverware when they won the FUFA Women’s Cup at the expense of She Corporates FC.
In her second season with UCU, they won their first league crown in a campaign where she finished as the top scorer with 18 goals and the MVP.
The 24-year-old has been named the Most Valuable Player of the season thrice, in 2015, 2016, and 2019.
Meanwhile, she has won the golden boot twice in 2017 and 2019 while she was named the Airtel FUFA Female Player of the Year in 2016.
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