Kenyan football has ushered in a new team to lead the sport for the next four years.
This is a great opportunity for the country. Once again, the collective will has been expressed by the football electorate, and it is one we should support in the hope that we will see more effort invested in raising the Kenyan game to new, higher levels of achievement.
The game has long been fraught with negativity. We have seen selfish and personal motives expressed by people who have used the beautiful game’s galvanising potential to create space for themselves in arenas that have had little to do with the sport.
It is the hope of many that the new team will be one dedicated to the game and ensuring the welfare of those who play it at all levels is prioritised.
The revenues the sport generates should be well utilised for the benefit of the game. This will encourage more corporate support, which, in turn, will ensure well-funded programmes benefit all Kenyans
Let us hope the new team will offer those who sit before TV screens on weekend afternoons to enjoy English and other European football a viable local alternative well refereed by qualified officials on well-maintained pitches, safe in the knowledge that the thuggery we have witnessed at the turnstiles is eliminated through a resurgent sense of fair play.
Quote of the day: “If there is one Osama
bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin
Ladens afterwards.” — on February 11,
2011, the Egyptian Revolution culminated
in the resignation of President Hosni
Mubarak and the transfer of power to the
Supreme Military Council after 18 days of
protests.
