Adrian Kasito: Player of the Month February 2018

The Rugby256 team unanimously voted Betway KOBS’ Adrian Kasito as its player of the month and by all accounts he deserved it. The Betway KOBS’ fullback has done well in fitting in the shoes of Joseph Aredo who now plies his trade at Kenya Harlequins. Adrian has been exceptional for his club and quite effective at both his attack and defensive plays.

Adrian Kasito dawning the Black, Yellow and Red at African 7s Championships 2017

Even moments when his team were down you always expect something out of the blue from this 22 year old soft spoken genius. Before he joined the mighty KOBS he honed his rugby skills at St. Mary’s College Kisubi and he is currently pursuing a Bachelors of Statistics at Makerere University.

He joined KOBS because he had many players to look up to there like Brian Odongo and Justin Kimono and he first enrolled for their development side Boks. In KOBS he has found a solid family with a very rich rugby history. He looks at his dad as a source of his unwavering inspiration. His stand out game in February according to him was against the warriors where he made few errors and got heavily involved in most of the team’s scores.

KOBS vs. Warriors

This ultimate team member is always talking about his team and not himself and he is grateful to having good mentors at his club and the Uganda Sevens’ team. He first came to the limelight in the National Colours in the 2016 Africa Sevens’ championship in Nairobi with some stunning performances which made any doubting Thomas’s to fervently seek repentance.

KOBS vs. Rams

Just to prove he is a gem in the team he had the last say during the 2017 Africa Seven’s Championship in Kampala with the dying moments of the game against Zimbabwe in the final. Uganda was on the ropes and after some excellent team work he found himself in a fair gap and run on behalf of all Ugandans to score the winning try. He made Zimbabweans and Ugandans cry. Tears of disbelief and of joy.

His veteran team mate Victor Wadia noted that Adrian has ‘high command at the back, creates and scores the most important tries and he has good game reading abilities. He makes try saving tackles and has a crazy work rate’. Betway KOBS’ head coach Rony Lutakome adds; “His commitment levels are up there top shelf. He works out with Justin Kimono. He tackles like he has life insurance and very explosive on attack”. Rony rarely praises any player and he has no time for ‘weak’ chaps. Adrian is definitely not a ‘weak’ chap.

Adrian is in the lager squad for the Uganda Sevens’ team and he is humble enough to know that he has to work harder and smarter to make the team to the 2018 Hong Kong’s Seven’s qualifiers. He points out Uganda’s failure to make it as ‘core’ team in the HSBC World Series in 2017 as his lowest point. He clearly hates losing.

Adrian points out that his highest point has been getting the opportunity to play for the Uganda Sevens’ team and therefore representing millions of Ugandans. And that is also a big motivation.

Rugby256 wishes Adrian and Uganda Sevens’ all the best in their preparations to make it to the Hong Kong Sevens’ Commonwealth Games and the Sevens World Cup.

Congratulations Adrian.