Author: Bonface Osano

Gor Mahia beat JKU of Zanzibar 2-0 to take bronze at this year’s Cecafa Kagame Cup in Tanzania. The third place play-off match was staged at the National Stadium, Dar Es Salaam on Friday afternoon. Burundian new-catch Francis Mustafa and Samuel Onyango scored for K’Ogalo in the second half to seal the victory. Gor overhauled the team that failed to make the final Tuesday, giving play-time to players who have been largely warming the bench like Onyango, Boniface Omondi and Shaban Odhoji and they did not disappoint. Read: World Cup Preview: Brazil Take On Belgium In Potentially Explosive Clash After a…

Deputy President William Ruto has promised Kenya Sevens Rugby team “Shujaa” “improved facilities” and a “rigorous” high volume training to keep the players in shape. Ruto addressed the World Cup bound team Friday morning when they paid him a courtesy call ahead of the global showpiece slated for San Francisco, USA from 20 to 22 July. The team leaves for USA on Sunday morning and will play their first match against Tonga at 11:01 PM Kenyan time on Friday 20 July. “The country is proud of you as our sports ambassadors and placing Kenya on the world map. The government…

Eritrean National Football Federation (ENFF) has accepted Ethiopia’s Fasil Kenema’s request to play a friendly match against a local side in Asmara. The Emperors are thus poised to become the first ever Ethiopian team to play a football match in the neighboring country. The move comes days after the two countries buried the hatchet, ending close to two decades of hostilities that claimed thousands of lives in border conflicts. “Your initiative and request for a friendly match between your team and an Eritrean team in Eritrean capital Asmara, really is a breakthrough that advocate the vision of the leadership of…

Tunisia national team coach Nabil Maaloul has resigned two weeks after returning from a disappointing World Cup outing in Russia. The 55-year-old, who was among the only two African coaches at the global showpiece, has been appointed as the new manager of Al Duhail of Qatar. “The club has contracted Tunisian Nabil Maaloul as the new technical manager of the first football team,” Al Duhail confirmed in a statement. He replaces Algerian Djemel Belmadi who left the club for “special reasons.” Read: Kenyans Attack Kisumu Governor Anyang’ Nyong’o For Launching Firefighter Belonging To Meru County Nabil led the Carthage Eagles at…

Victor Wanyama is back with Tottenham Hostpur for preseason training in London ahead of the new Premier League season next month. After a low key 2017-18 season dogged with injuries and minimal play-time, the midfielder returned to Kenya to recharge at the end of it. While at home, the celebrated son of the soil got busy with the youth as he organized a tournament for them to help nurture their talents. The Harambee Stars skipper, who was always seen in public with his Italy-based brother MacDonald Mariga, also holidayed in Zanzibar. Read: Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez Open To Leaving Arsenal But…

Kenya’s “Shujaa” head coach Innocent Simiyu has named his final squad for the Rugby World Cup Sevens slated for San Francisco, USA starting 20 to 22 July. Loudly missing from the roll of 12 are Top Fry Nakuru RFC flanker Oscar Ouma and Mwamba RFC center Billy Odhiambo. Oscar is having personal commitments while, Billy is nursing a hand injury. The team which reached the semifinals of the previous two editions in 2009 (Dubai) and 2013 (Russia) will depart for the USA on Sunday morning. They will compete alongside 23 other men’s teams in a new look, high-stakes knock-out format…

Cameroon’s Indomitable Lions forward Clinton Mua N’jie has promised to “clean his image” after a leaked latter from the Cameroon FA accused him of bringing two women to camp. According to the private latter, which went viral on social media on 11 July, two women tagged along the Marseille player, who reported late to camp on 24 May ahead of their friendly against Burkina Faso three days later. While agreeing to respond to clarifications sought by the federation, the 24-year-old expressed shock that the private letter went public. “I was surprised a few days ago to see a private correspondence…

FIFA is always in permanent possession of the real world cup trophy, it is never handed to the winning countries. Those who win the cup only get to hold it aloft at the award ceremony, take pictures with it and then hand it back to FIFA. They are then given a gold coated replica that they get to keep for four years. This is because the first world cup trophy, the Jules Rimet, got stolen in Rio after Brazil won it in 1962. Read: Beatrice Chebet Breaks Ethiopia Dominance In 5000m At World U20 Championships Fifa tried to get it back…

Fifa has ordered broadcasters to stop their cameras from zooming in on “hot women” in the crowd during matches. Federico Addiechi, Fifa’s diversity boss said they needed to help the global body to tackle sexism at the football biggest platform. “We’ve done it with individual broadcasters. We’ve done it with our host broadcast services,” he told the BBC. Anti-discrimination group Fare Network says sexism has been the biggest problem at the Russia World Cup. Read: Kenyan Women Battered By Lebanese Army Officer (Video) It has been monitoring games and says it has documented more than 30 cases, according to a…

England are out of the Russia World Cup following a 2-1 semi-finals defeat to Croatia in extra time in Moscow on Wednesday. The Three Lions were roaring for a first Final appearance since winning the coveted title at home in 1966 but, the night belonged to the surprise package, Croatia, who sailed through for the first time in their history. It was the English who took an early 5th minute lead through Kieran Trippier’s lovely free-kick to send Luzhniki Stadium into frenzy. But despite trailing at the breather, Croatia continued to battle in the second half, showing grit and tenacity…

Gor Mahia are out of the Cecafa Kagame Cup after going down 2-0 to Azam FC in the semi-final played at National Stadium, Dar Es Salaam Wednesday. Two extra-time goals from Ditram Nchimbi and Bruce Kangwa saw the home boys sail through to the final slated for Friday at the same venue. Azam dominated the Kenyan champions in the first half with their sleek passing game, but could not break their backline marshaled by skipper Harun Shakava. K’Ogalo tinkered a bit with their line up in the second half adding an extra body in the midfield hence denying Azam spaces…

Croatia host England in the second semi-final of the 2018 Russia World Cup at Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow tonight in a tie laced with so much history. The winner of the 9:00PM kick-off match will face France, who edged out Belgium 1-0 yesterday, in the Sunday Final. This is a semi-final decades in the making. Both sides have waited patiently for their turn, each experiencing heartbreak in prior editions since they last appeared in the final four. Croatia have ‘only’ had to wait 20 years  (semi-finalists at France 1998), while England last reached the semi-final stage 28 years ago at Italy…

Algerian winger Riyad Mahrez has joined Premier League champions Manchester City on a five-year-contract from Leicester City. The deal is worth $78m, according to sources, which is a new transfer record for the premier league moneybags. The 27-year-old will pocket $234,000 weekly. He becomes the most expensive African player of all time, a record previously held by Egyptian Mo Salah of Liverpool. “I am so pleased to have joined City, a side playing great football under Pep Guardiola,” Mahrez said. “Watching them from afar has been a pleasure. Pep is committed to playing attacking football, which is perfect for me,…

First played in 1999, the 20th edition of National Sevens Circuit returns from 21 July and runs until 15 September, traversing six Kenyan cities and towns in the quest to determine the 2018 Kenyan club sevens champions. Action begins in Nakuru on 21 July with the opening round, the Prinsloo Sevens, played every year since 2007 at the Nakuru Athletic Club before shifting to Eldoret for the Sepetuka Sevens at the Eldoret Sports Club a week later. The Kenyatta Stadium in Machakos will host the third round when the Kabeberi Sevens takes place on 18 August with the coastal city…

For all their success at U20 level at the World Cross Country Championships, a Kenyan woman – as implausible as it sounds – had never won the 5000m title at the World U20 Championships before today but Beatrice Chebet ended the decade-long Ethiopian hegemony of the event with an unmatched turn of pace in the last 150 metres. Not since 2006 has a non-Ethiopian won this title but Chebet transferred her domestic form to the international stage superbly, covering the last lap in 62.66 to win the 5000m title in 15:30.77 on an unseasonably warm afternoon in Tampere. Chebet was…