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Like athletes, let's export our footballers

Ben Lagat
      OSAKA, JAPAN - SEPTEMBER 02: Bernard Lagat of the United States of America celebrates winning the Men's 5,000m Final on day nine of the 11th IAAF World Athletics Championships on September 2, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan. (Photo by Ian Walton/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Bernard Lagat

In one of my articles in July this year, I urged ambitious Kenyan footballers to think seriously about taking up foreign citizenship.

I recently stumbled upon television coverage of the recent IAAF continental races in Marrakesh, Morocco.

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