Finally East-Africa has its first player in the best football league in the world Premier League. For Kenya’s football the last week has been very special, Celtic Glasgow’s Victor Wanayama has transferred for a record fee of 12.5 Million Pounds to Southampton at which 23 year old Victor Wanyama will play a central role for Southampton ambitions goals. With this news in the background, Biko and I decided to explore the football scene in Kenya a bit closer. Both of us decided to attend a local football tournament at which St. Josephs House of Hope participated as well.
As you will see in the pictures it was once again a fascinating experience for both of us.
Behind some clay-build houses we found a football pitch close to Majengo. The word ‘football pitch’ cannot be used to describe the scene presented in front of us. The so called pitch looked more like the bomb-crater fields of Verdun than the typical football fields we used to have in Europe. The match that we watched was very professionally set up, at least for Kenyan standards. Both teams marched onto the pitch and bowed to the approximately 300 spectators sitting on the grass or on ruins all around the pitch. The two teams wore old German-Retro-Football jerseys of two German amateur teams and one team even had EDEKA sponsor logo written in front which is kind of ironical. A referee was also present, so with a whistle from him the match started. Both parties battled heavily from the start and in terms of speed and technical skills many top amateur teams could take a leaf out of there book. It was really spectacular and both of us had great fun watching some goals and moves on a disgrace to the word pitch.
With the sun setting, we left still marveling at some of the players who played for 90 minutes barefoot but without any handicap being noticible. We are both very sure with some proper nourishment, good fortune and support some of these players have the chance of being the next Victor Wanyama.
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