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Kenya Glennis Namasake(l) and Ghana Amestina Cofie fight for the ball when they played World League round one at Citypark ,Nairobi. Kenya won 1-0. ON 06/09/14 PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE
The national women's hockey team is in despair in the on-going International Hockey Federation (FIH) World League Two in Montevideo, Uruguay. This follows FIH’s decision to award their opponents walkovers as they failed to make it to the South American country in good time to honour their matches.
They are yet to play a match as the competition entered day four and are still hopeful FIH will allow them to play Azerbaijan. They arrived in Montevideo late for their tie against Trinidad and Tobago, which prompted FIH to award the latter five goals and three points.
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