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FKF deal won’t help footballers if they are kept in the dark

Kenyan football team Gor mahia and AFC Leopards meet in town for Mashemeji derby at Nyayo stadium on 19th May 2019/PHOTO David Gichuru

There is this story about Ephraim Matsilela Sono, the Black Prince of South African football, which makes sense all the time it is told because it addresses the needs and rights the most important people in football: players.

Ephraim is the man popularly known as Jomo Sono, the coach and also owner of Jomo Cosmos FC which nowadays plays in the second-tier of South African football league. Reportedly, he was given the Jomo name because he was being equated to Kenya’s Mzee Jomo Kenyatta.

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