Author: Bonface Osano

Shafik Batambuze picked up a left knee injury sometime last season. He aggravated the same this year in a CAF Champions League match against Aigle Noir of Burundi. After several scans the doctor advised a surgery, but this is yet to happen due to lack of finances. A desperate Batambuze is now seeking any available help so that he can undergo the procedure at the Kenyatta National Hospital at a cost of Kshs 350,000. “I understand that the club is having financial problems, but I need this surgery so that I can play again. This situation is taking a toll…

The Kenya Rugby Union has today announced the appointment of New Zealander Paul Feeney as the Kenya Rugby Technical Director effective immediately. In this role, Paul will head the Kenya Shujaa Programme and also support the Simbas, Chipu and Lionesses teams in areas of skills and defence. Feeney is a World Rugby Level 3 Coach with more than 25 years coaching experience in both sevens and fifteens at the highest levels. He won the 2005 Rugby World Cup 7s with Fiji and has also worked in the All Blacks set up as the New Zealand’s U20’s Position Specific Coach in…

Former Harambee Stars defender James Situma has gone back to school after recently hanging his boots. Situma, 34, enrolled at Zetech University in Nairobi to study Diploma in Business Administration. “It’s about acquiring knowledge and preparing for the future,” the former Sofapaka, Tusker, Sofapaka and Mathare United player told Kahawa Tungu. Read: Kenyan Advocate Janet Katisya Among Experts To Reform Troubled CAF He reiterated that going back to class has always been part of his plans. “I needed to focus on playing football first and see how far I could go with it. As you know football programs like attending…

Swedish football legend Zlatan Ibrahimovíc is a cult hero. At 37, Zlat, as he’s fondly referred to, is still playing professionally for LA Galaxy in the US. He’s ranked among top three greatest goal scorers in the whole world and has scored over 530 career goals for both club and country. Read: Reprieve For PSG As Neymar Ban Reduced To Two Matches With his celebrity status and a big ego to boot, he’s always a center of attraction and everybody wants a piece of of him. https://twitter.com/Ibra_official/status/1174563082661613568?s=19 One of his fans thought he had finally gotten an opportunity of a…

The Kenya U20 National Team, the Rising Stars, left for Uganda by bus on Wednesday, September 18, 2019, ahead of the upcoming CECAFA U20 Championships. The team has been in camp in Nairobi and all is now set for the junior regional showpiece, set to be played between September 21 and October 5, 2019. “We are in a tough group but I think the tougher the group the better the challenge,” said coach Okumbi. Read: Tusker FC Handed Easy Points After Western Stima Found Guilty Of Fielding Ineligible Player “With the quality of players we have in the team I…

CAF has set dates for the Kenya Women National team, Harambee Starlets’, Olympics Qualifier third-round tie against Ghana. The first leg is set to be played on October 4, 2019, away, with the second leg scheduled for October 8, 2019. Starlets are set to depart for Ghana on October 2 and will jet back on October 5, 2019. Read: Ghana’s All Time Scorer Asamoah Gyan Retires Over Captaincy Row Kenya beat Malawi 5-3 on aggregate in the second round and will be looking forward to a positive result against Ghana, who they held to a 1-1 draw in November 2018…

Cagliari have been cleared of racist chanting towards Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku in a Serie A match. Chants were aimed at Lukaku as he was about to take a penalty in a 2-1 victory at the Sardegna Arena. But according to a sports judge acting on behalf of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC), there was not enough evidence for any sanctions. Read: CONFIRMED: Man United Loan Striker Alexis Sanchez To Serie A Side Inter Milan Cagliari were, however, fined 5,000 euros for throwing plastic bottles on to the pitch at Parma on Sunday. The report admitted that chants, shouts…

Liverpool chief executive Peter Moore has stayed in hospital with a fan who was “ambushed” in a bar in Naples before the Reds’ Champions League loss to Napoli on Tuesday. The fan collapsed at half-time due to “significant blood loss” according to a post on social media. Merseyside Police say two Liverpool fans were reportedly assaulted at a bar before the match at 18:00 local time. Read: Origi: There’s Something Special Going On At Liverpool They were attacked by a group on scooters and suffered cuts and grazes. The two men from the UK, aged 26 and 46, were treated…

Paris St-Germain forward Neymar’s three-game European ban for insulting match officials has been cut to two by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The 27-year-old was charged by UEFA after PSG’s Champions League exit at home to Manchester United on 6 March. Neymar called the award of a decisive 94th-minute United penalty in the last-16 second leg-tie “a disgrace”. Read: Three Kenyan Premier League Referees Sanctioned Over Questionable Decisions He will miss the games against Real Madrid and Galatasaray but can return to face Club Brugges on 22 October. PSG took the case to Cas after UEFA rejected their appeal…

Dennis Oliech is looking for another chance to return to active football barely a month after being terminated by Gor Mahia for gross misconduct. “I’m ready to continue playing now. I can see teams like Wazito and Bandari struggling to score and I’m ready if they show interest in my services. Maybe they fear my demands but I’m ready to listen to their offers if they are interested,” Oliech told the Nairobian. After a two-year hiatus, the former Harambee Stars skipper signed for the Kenyan champions in January this year in a move that was hailed as the return of…

A 13-year-old Kenyan boy featured in Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s announcement at Roma has been located and returned to his family. The Italian side had begun a social media campaign in July, which was aimed towards raising awareness of missing children. The boy was pictured next to Mkhitaryan’s unveiling video in the club’s posts following the Armenian wideman’s loan switch from Arsenal. Read: Italian Journalist Sacked Over Racial Slur Against Romelu Lukaku The Kenyan boy featured in Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s announcement at Roma has been located. The news comes almost a month after the same campaign had helped locate a previously missing girl…

Kenyan marathon runners reclaimed their pride at this year’s Cape Town Marathon after managing to win the men’s and women’s titles on Sunday. The race, which has been dominated by Ethiopian Marathon runners in the last two years saw Kenya’s Edwin Kibet KOECH and Daniel Muindi Muteti pick the winners and first runners up title in the only International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Gold Label event in Africa. Leading a massive field of more than 7,000 entrants, Koech breezed through the scenic Cape Town Course finishing in a time of 02:09:20 just five seconds ahead of compatriot Muteti and…

An Italian TV pundit has been suspended for saying that the only way to stop Romelu Lukaku is to give “him 10 bananas to eat”. Luciano Passirani, an Italian football journalist, was a guest on the Qui Studio a Voi Stadio show when he made the injurious remark and the director of the Telelombardia show reacted immediately by saying that he would never appear on the programme again. The show was debating Lukaku’s impact for Inter so far since joining Manchester United in the summer and Passirani said: “Lukaku is one of the best signings that Inter could have made.…

Wazito FC owner Ricardo Bardoer has mocked broke Gor Mahia saying he hopes that the club got enough money to buy food for their players. Gor are presently in Blida, Algeria where they will face USM Alger in the CAF Champions League. The trip was doubtful due to lack of finances to buy air tickets and it took a last ditch lobbying for the government to bail them out. “It does warm my heart that football giants Gor was bailed out. Hopefully they got enough money so they can buy food for their players,” Ricardo Tweeted. Read: Champions League: Government…

Wazito FC owner Ricardo Badoer slammed the team after registering their second consecutive league draw against Western Stima in Kisumu on Saturday. The Kenyan Premier League new moneybags kicked off the new season with a 1-1 draw against Nzoia Sugar a fortnight back before today’s barren draw against Stima. In his characteristic fashion, Ricardo took to Twitter to vent his frustrations, slamming the entire team for poor performance except goalkeeper Kevin Omondi whom he praised for “saving their a***.” Read: Victor Wanyama Set To Seal Ksh1.4 Billion Move To Club Brugge From Tottenham “Second game and Second Draw for Wazito…