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Kenya U-23 Team Departs To Ethiopia For CECAFA Championship
The Kenya U-23 football team Wednesday left the country for Ethiopia to participate in the forthcoming CECAFA U-23 championship set for Sunday 18, July this year.
The team held their final training session on Tuesday 13, July 2021 with their Coach Stanley Okumbi finalising his selected team.
The tournament is set to kick off on Sunday, July 18 2021 with the draw of the competition placing teams in three groups, A, B and C.
The tally of the participating teams narrows to nine confirmed teams that will battle for the CECAFA cup.
The Kenyan U-23 team has been grouped in group C together with Djibouti and South Sudan U-23 teams. They open their match on Monday July 19, 2021 against Djibouti and they will finish their group stages matches on Thursday July 22, 2021 against South Sudan.
The winner of each group in the group stage qualifies to the next stages with the best runners up considered too for the next stage. The finals of the tournament are set on Friday, July 30, 2021.
In other sports news, the Football Kenya Federation has initiated the FKF Women Administrators course that will be offered at the Kenya School of Special Education (KISE) in Kasarani.
The Administration course is aimed at equipping FKF County Women Representatives with the necessary skills to actualize the recently launched FKF Women Football Strategy.
Speaking during the opening ceremony, Thursday, FKF Vice President, Doris Petra, elucidated more on the importance of the course in the actualization of the recently launched FKF Women Football Strategy.
“To set the ball rolling on the FKF Women Football Strategy that we launched, we have organized an Administrative course for FKF County Women Representatives to gain knowledge that will in the long run help actualize the Women Football Strategy,” said FKF Vice President.
FKF NEC Women Representative, Margaret Omondi, further echoed the words of FKF Vice President Doris Petra.
“In a bid to keep our promise of fully implementing the recently launched FKF Women Football Strategy, we have organized a course for our FKF County Women Representatives to help set the ball rolling,” said Omondi.
The course covers leadership skills, Sponsorship Management, Strategic Planning, Financial Planning, Project Management, Marketing, and Communication & Media management.
Dennis Ombachi, popular rugby player and chef has set tongues wagging after sharing a snippet of his toddler son showcasing that he can float on water and swim to safety.
Ombachi took to his Instagram page to share a video throwing the little boy into the water, leaving many in shock.
In the short video, the rugby player lifted his son up, kissed him, then he tossed him into a swimming pool by the leg.
“Four weeks since we started water safety classes and my son graduated today, officially water safe!” Ombachi gushed on Twitter about his son’s abilities.
Once in the water, the baby boy quickly gets himself to a floating position and kicks his feet moving forward steadily. It appears that he can get himself out of a pool and even keep his head up to breathe after having been taught the life skill early on.
Following the child’s accomplishment, Ombachi said that he is a “proud father”
“Proud of you my naughty boy, you’re finally Water Safe, less worries for us when you are out of our sight having successfully completed your water safety class. Happy graduation day,” he wrote on Instagram.
Since his early Monday morning post, the self-taught chef has been trending on Twitter, with over 5000 tweets being made about him, with netizens sharing mixed reactions.
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Athletics Kenya (AK) is impressed with the progress made by inferior athletes at the ongoing vacation camp.
The camps are aimed at preparing athletes for the World Under-20 tournament in Cali, Colombia.
AK President Jack Tuwei who was speaking in Kapsumbeiywo All4Running youth camp which is headed by former world
800m champion Janeth Jepkosgei, said he was impressed by the turnout of the youth in colorful camps.
“We have 26 camps across the country and we are happy because they are training well thanks to the government who have helped in funding them. As a federation we shall do our part and make sure we get some of the best from these camps,” Tuwei said.
Kenya will be seeking to retain the title for the younger team for the third time in a row in the tournament set for August after winning in Tampere, Finland in 2018 and again last time in Nairobi.
AK youth head trainer Robert Ngiserei said the early medication will enable the country to present a strong platoon across the all events.
“At the Youth Sub Committee, we have embraced this program as it will help us improve more on the development of talent which will ensure our country remains as an athletics powerhouse,” Ngiserei said.
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