KPL to be played in Kajiado

It is an opportunity for Rongai residents to watch Kenya Premier League live. This is as the FOOTBALL Kenya Federation president Sam Nyamweya on Sunday installed their branch officials in Kajiado county and said Premier League games will now be played in the region. Nyamweya also urged the local county governor David Nkedianye to help upgrade the playing grounds in the region so as to open up football participation in the county.

this comes after the Kajiado county has been conducting the Kajiado League which has turned out to be successful and much promising. Kajiado League has helped a lot in nurturing talents and help create jobs for the youth in the area.
The FKF boss said football facilities in Kajiado had been overlooked for a long time and he promised to promote sports in the region adding there was great potential in Kitengela, Ngong and Ongata Rongai.
“I will work closely with the local FKF office to bring many provincial league teams to play in Kajiado as a way of promoting the sport here,” Nyamweya said.
He was accompanied by NEC member for Rift Valley, Doris Petra, who urged the Maasai community and other people living in Kajiado to embrace football as a way of life. Petra said football had transformed lives of people in other areas and, therefore, the need to trap the talent in Kajiado.

By Brian Obuchi.

Why EPL and not KPL?

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Any football lover in Kenya would tell you that the English (EPL) is more famous in Kenya than Kenya premier league (KPL). In fact if they were to choose EPL and KPL they will definitely choose EPL without second thoughts.

Football in Kenya has had its own share of challenges from bad management to lack of enough funds plus many more other problems. One would tell that football in Kenya is more or less dead.

Though people have really tried to promote and support our own football some clubs in Kenya do not have fans and if they have they can barely fill half of the stadium. It’s a paradox because if there is any time that club and bar owners make more money then it must be the time when there is a an English premier match. People come in large numbers in large numbers and fill the whole place forcing the club and bar owners to send some of them away.

Why is it difficult to rally the same kind of support to our players? Football lovers say it’s because the kind of football played here in Kenya cannot march the kind of football that is played in the EPL.

What then does EPL do so well that Kenya doesn’t do? Many international players are nurtured when they are still young. In that stage they are given good coaches who then impact good skills in the players. As they grow up they perfect their game more and more and they become the best. In Kenya there is a problem when it comes to nurturing the young spirited blood, normally we concentrate on the players who have already made it in football and forget those who are still fresh and have the potential.

EPL also provides good and quality facilities for their players. In Kenya clubs are still struggling when it comes to facilities some of the clubs do not have training grounds and are forced to train in places where the conditions are pathetic.

EPL pays the players so well this keeps them motivated and they struggle to maintain and upgrade their game. In Kenya the situation is so different because the one major challenge the clubs are facing is lack of funds. The players in KPL are paid so little that they cannot even afford a decent life with what they get. This is a demoralizing factor because football needs ones time and effort. Sometimes players are forced to join other businesses to substitute the little they get.

Though KPL is facing a lot of criticisms it has the capacity to produce players who can fit into world teams. It’s only a matter of looking for more funds through sponsorship that will help them train good players and uplift the status of KPL.

By paskalia