Patrick Henry Kaddu (born 9 October 1995) is a Ugandan professional

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who plays as a striker for

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club

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and the Uganda national team.

Early life

Patrick Henry Kaddu was born in a family of six to Efusa Nsubuga and Hadija Nakitende. Kaddu is the fourth born and grew up in Bbiina in the heart of

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, a

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suburb. Like all his siblings, Kaddu had a troubled education, often skipping from Mukama Kyakuwa nursery school and St James primary school for fees defaulting. But after so much persistence, in 2005, Kaddu completed his

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, although he could not get his results because he had not cleared his fees. However, that was least of the problems as right about that time, his father sold off their home, and disappeared, leaving the rest of the family homeless. His mother left Luzira to look for more income, but Kaddu remained in Luzira, and lived on his own, keeping up with his village football team Destiny Soccer Academy.

Club career

Kaddu first joined

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in 2011, but was not able to play immediately because of more established senior players like George Abege, Ibrahim Kongo and Pate Wanok. He left them in 2014, following their relegation, to join

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in the top flight for the 2014–15 season. He scored 6 goals in the league before Kiira were relegated. He then returned to Maroons for the 2015–16 season and was the club's top-scorer with eight goals, although the club was relegated. In the

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during the 2016–2017 season, Kaddu inspired them back into the UPL. He was the FBL's top-scorer with 18 goals in 22 games. In 2017, Kaddu joined KCCA, but was not able to get much game time initially from coach Mike Mutebi. In June 2018, he led KCCA's line against

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in the Uganda cup final in

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, and played a big hand in his team's winning goal and also finished the tournament with its top scorer with 7 goals. During his 2-year stint at KCCA, Kaddu scored 32 goals in 64 games for the Lugogo-based club.

RS Berkane

In August 2019, Kaddu joined

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on a 4-year deal.

Loan to Ismaily SC

In February 2020, Kaddu joined

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on a six-month loan deal until June 30, 2020 with an option to buy for about $100k. On March 9, 2020 he scored his first goal for

against

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which held to a 1–1 draw. However, the Egyptian club decided not to trigger the buying option.

Youssoufia Berrechid

On 5 December 2020, Kaddu moved to Botola club

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on a deal for the rest of the season.

International career

On 17 November 2018, Kaddu scored his first ever international goal in a 1–0 win against

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, sealing Uganda's qualification in the

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. On 12 June 2019, Kaddu was named in Uganda's 23-man squad for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in

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. On 22 June 2019, he scored in his sides 2–0 opening match win against

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Career statistics

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Uganda's goal tally first.''

Honours

Club

KCCA *

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: 2018-19 *

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Individual

*Uganda Cup Top Goalscorer: 2018

References

External links

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