OYDC Rugby coach Muwele boasts contributing players to national teams

01 Apr

OYDC Rugby coach Muwele boasts contributing players to national teams

By Noah Silomba News, Sport 0 Comments

OYDC Rugby coach Clement Muwele is pleased that several young athletes who started from the multisports facility are now playing for the national teams and different local clubs.

Muwele says about 20 young talented athletes were nurtured from OYDC since 2014 adding that he is proud to state that among those some are playing for the national teams and local clubs such as Leopards in Mufulira and Red Arrows in Lusaka.

He adds that it is through youthful leagues such as the Teulings/OYDC Youth Sports Challenge that the nation keeps producing talented players in rugby getting selected to play for these clubs.

OYDC Rugby team has on many occasions won several awards for excellent performances during major youth competitions among them the 2016 Zambia Agricultural and Commercial Show rugby, 2021 Teulings league, and many others.

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Noah Silomba

Noah Silomba is a Zambian-born Lusaka-based professional journalist with many years of experience in media, sport & corporate communication, digital & social media marketing and web management. Ranked 5th in Africa for the 2021 AIPS Sport Media Awards in Photography Sports Action and is a two times media awards nominee (photography sports action & best writing colour piece) categories for the years 2020 and 2021 under the International Sports Press Association (AIPS) Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2024 Silomba was certified as the finalist for the sixth edition of the Run for Art photography contest in the category; Sport and urban environment by the Fondazione Giulio Onesti in Rome, Italy. He is also part of Cohort A for 2022 Africa Media Agency (AMA) Academy training in digital media and marketing.