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ROAD TO CONTINENTAL GLORY

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I'm  For many years, Kenya has been known in Eastern Africa as the center where talent is exported.All this has been seen with different players, plying their trades to European leagues, both topflight and the intermediate leagues with names such as Wanyama Victor, Dennis Oliech and Mac Donald Mariga. In the late 80's, it is also indicated that Gor Mahia is the only East African club to win a continental cup then Africa Cup Winners cup which is now the CAF confederation cup.  Victor Wanyama with Tottenham Hotspurs Mariga(left) with Samuel Etoo(right) at Inter Milan   Dennis Oliech (right) during a UEFA champions league match against AC Milan. Despite all this success, there has been a shakeup where we are in a huddle as a country that kwe have talent but no structures put in place to maintain them and compete and that is what is making us as a country, not to appear in the continental stage. Some of our clubs tend also to struggle to reach at the group stage of the elite ...

AFRICAN FOOTBALL

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  KENYA AND TANZANIA LEAGUE STRUCTURES In recent years, sports analysts and football fanatics at large have a debate, concerning which is the better league between Kenyan and Tanzanian one concerning mode of play and also structures outplayed. It has been fueled mostly due to improvements on both of their structures. Some examples like in Tanzania,  is about the leagues structure while Kenya, about exporting talent abroad but we will look at all this in detail. We will dig deeper, looking to matters concerning both countries and how they are doing in terms of football development.Welcome on board as we go on this exciting journey. KENYA Kenya , is a country widely known for athletics but also in terms of football, they are among the best in East Africa region. The game of football is governed by the Football Kenya Federation i.e. FKF, which is run currently with President Hussein Mohammed together with his counterpart, Mac Donald Mariga, who is a former Kenyan International Fo...

South African football

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 COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICAN FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONS  The association was founded in 1983 with 10 official associations in Malawi. Founding members include: Angola Botswana Eswatini Lesotho Malawi Namibia South Africa  Zambia Zimbabwe In the year 2000, Madagascar, Seychelles and Mauritius joined then later in 2007, Comoros joined the association. ADMINISTRATION  The organization is headed by a president, who serves a 4 year term with a selected committee of members as per the associations agreement with an election. According to the latest election, the new president of the association is Tariq Babitseng of Botswana, with his vice been Alfred Randriamanampisoa of Madagascar. The headquarters of Cosafa is in Johannesburg South Africa. Tariq Babitseng, current president COSAFA NATIONS WITH HONOURS IN COSAFA : Zambia I.e.Chipolopolo are considered one of the most capped in terms of cosafa cups won(7times). South Africa i.e. Bafana Bafana are considered also a power house they ha...