{"id":41706,"date":"2026-08-06T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41706"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:54:06","slug":"ugandan-soccer-star-dies-after-assault-in-kampala","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ugandan-soccer-star-dies-after-assault-in-kampala\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan soccer star dies after assault in\u00a0Kampala"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Uganda international David Owori, captain of one of the country&#8217;s biggest soccer clubs, has died after an assault \u200bin the capital Kampala, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Owori, 28, captain of \u200cSC Villa, was critically injured by unidentified assailants in a suburb of Kampala on Tuesday, police spokesperson Racheal Kawala said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;David was not just a footballer. He was \u200bboth a leader and an inspiration to a generation. As \u200bCaptain of SC Villa, he led with courage, humility and passion. In the Uganda Cranes jersey, he carried the hopes of a nation,&#8221; the Federation \u200bof Uganda Football Associations said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Crime is rampant \u200bin the capital of the East African country and many Ugandans expressed outrage \u200cat \u2060his death on X. They also condemned what some said was the inability of the authorities to tackle crime.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Owori&#8217;s death follows that of another popular sports personality in June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Rugby player Sydney Gongodyo \u200bdied after he \u200bwas assaulted \u2060by a mob in Kampala after he was apparently mistaken for a thief, according to police.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41707,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-41706","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Uganda international David Owori has died","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41708,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41706\/revisions\/41708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}