Phillip Ssozi (born 23 July 1982 in

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) is a retired

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n international

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player.

Club career

Phillip started his senior career in the Ugandan leading club

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having won five national

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in a row. In December 2003 he moved to Europe, to play in

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in the

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(2nd Serbian tier).Profile
at Srbijafudbal. That club is known for bringing many Ugandan players to Europe, but after ending that season, Ssozi was back to Africa, this time to play in

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n leading club APR FC from the country's capital

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. There he won that year, 2005, the

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. After that season, he was back to Uganda where he first played in Kampala's Victor FC and, since 2007 is playing in another capital's club, the Express Red Eagles.

International career

Since 1999, Ssozi had played 22 matches for the

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, scoring 2 goals.

Honours

; Villa *

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1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

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, 2002–03,

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

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, 2002 *

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: 2003 *East African Hedex Super Cup: 1999-00 ; APR *

: 2005 ; Express *

: 2011–12

References

Living people 1982 births Footballers from Kampala Ugandan men's footballers Uganda men's international footballers FK Srem players Serbian First League players Ugandan expatriate sportspeople in Serbia and Montenegro Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia and Montenegro APR F.C. players Expatriate men's footballers in Rwanda Men's association football midfielders SC Villa players Ugandan expatriate sportspeople in Rwanda Express FC players {{Uganda-footy-bio-stub