{"id":1192444,"date":"2026-09-08T02:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1192444\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T02:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T02:15:20","slug":"from-the-the-penalty-box-to-the-throne-london-non-league-goalkeeper-set-to-become-ugandan-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1192444\/","title":{"rendered":"From the the penalty box to the throne: London non-league goalkeeper set to become Ugandan king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The royal succession committee selected Kamurasi as his successor on Friday, with 15 of the 18 members present voting for him, according to Ugandan media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He is expected to be formally proclaimed this weekend &#8211; but is understood to be reluctant to give up the goalkeeping gloves for the throne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">He has yet to comment on his possible elevation &#8211; with local reports suggesting he would be reluctant to leave London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">In Tooro culture, to refuse the throne would be considered an abomination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The Tooro kingdom is in western Uganda and is one of the country\u2019s four traditional kingdoms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The four monarchies in Uganda survived British colonialism but were abolished upon the declaration of independence in 1967.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\">The kingdoms were re-established in 1993, but as cultural institutions without political power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The royal succession committee selected Kamurasi as his successor on Friday, with 15 of the 18 members present&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1192445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":["post-1192444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117233013963616780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}