This blogger isn’t a soccer fan. Can’t even tell an off-side if life itself depended on it. The Premier and other assorted leagues fanaticism escape this blogger’s simple mind. That it is called the beautiful games is beyond me, more so the point at which beauty and the game converge. But then again, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder and this blogger isn’t a beholder. But that is neither here nor there.
The Kenyan joke that is supposed to be the soccer fraternity is in disarray. That is even to put it mildly. I can’t begin to describe the fiasco that passes for Kenyan soccer and it’s so called federation. Call it whatever you want but that will be the year’s understatement!
Ministers have come and gone but the rot, just like prostitution has stayed on to fight another day. Add that to the FIFA non government intervention and the word crisis begs for redefinition! We can’t fault Minister Maina Kamanda for not trying. Indeed he has done well in the sports ministry within a relatively short time. But the charlatans that masquerade as KFF seem to have evaded his good deeds.
In their latest fiasco, they held two parallel AGM’s, one in Kasarani in Nairobi and another in Malindi that was ‘recognised’ by FIFA! At the same time, FIFA has threatened a one year ban which this blogger feels is awfully inadequate if we are to raise the so called beautiful game from the ashes!
Maina Kamanda needs to do one thing ASAP!: Dissolve the entire KFF indefinitely!, call in KACC to investigate funds embezzlement and other corrupt misdemeanor, close his ears to FIFA noise while at it or better still, write an official letter to FIFA requesting a 5year ban! Back here, all the KFF members and delegates from National to location levels be banned from holding any position in the KFF for the next 20yrs! Desperate times call for desperate measures and the 20yr ban should be accompanied by an ‘executive order’ from the house on the hill, FIFA be damned!
From that point, we can salvage the so called beautiful game in Kenya and get in new managers to run it as a business entity that will offer employment opportunities to many, taxes from the revenue and if possible sell it to the public through the NSE. It may also become the feeding grounds for the European teams. The list is endless as are the opportunities.
Without such highhandedness, all else will become a cropper! All the best to the Harambee Stars team in their oncoming games.
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