Jaberi Bidandi Ssali

In the 1970s and early 1980s, Bidandi Ssali worked as a football manager, coaching the Uganda national team in 1982.

Bidandi Ssali was born in Butambala District, in the Central Region of Uganda, on 17 July 1937[1] to Bumaali Kakonge Matembe and Nalongo Eriosi Bulyaba.

[5] He holds the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Local Governance and Human Rights, obtained from Uganda Martyrs University.

During the regime of Idi Amin, he turned his focus to football, coaching Kampala City Council FC from 1974 until 1979.

[9] In 1980, when Yoweri Museveni went to the bush to wage the National Resistance War, Bidandi Ssali did not go with him, although he clandestinely offered assistance to NRA supporters who sought his help.