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For 18 locally-based football players, a trip to the KCOM Stadium, home to English Premier League side Hull City, next month will be a culmination of two months of sheer hard work and a celebration for making it to the SportPesa AllStars squad.
The select side will comprise of the crème de la crème of the SportPesa Premier League scouted by two Hull City FC coaches, Richard Naylor and Kris Blakeston, who spent two weeks in the country last November. The reward; to play a match with Hull City FC at the KCOM Stadium in February and a return leg in Kenya later.
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