Former Sofapaka FC Captain Johnson Bagoole has passed on; this has been confirmed by the Ugandan football portal Kawowo who reported that the midfielder breathed his last in the late hours of Thursday 21 June at Lira Regional Referral Hospital after succumbing to Cryptococcal Meningitis.
The statement reports that Bagoole had been admitted at the facility a day before this as reported by his former teammate Simon Musoke who had been with the player in his last minutes.
“It is sad news that the lion is gone. We have lost Johnson Bagoole. He died from Lira Regional Referral Hospital after being admitted a day before. We are making arrangements to transport the body back to Kampala and finally to the ancestral village. Details of the burial arrangements will be communicated in the due course,” Musoke told Kawowo.
This was just 24 hours after he was admitted at Lira Regional Referral Hospital where he had been transferred from his Kampala home in Makindye. It is said that the player had been for the last month with his situation worsening earlier this week.
Bagoole started his career in Uganda with Iganga Town Council before moving to giants Express Football Club where he became a household. From Uganda, he ventured into greener pastures playing for Rwanda’s APR and Rayon Sports before moving to Kenya where he played at Sofapaka FC.
From Sofapaka, the midfielder moved to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he featured for AS Vita Sports Club and Bukavu Dawa before retiring.