KPL deal with La Liga as fishy as its unveiling

KPL LA LIGA PARTNERSHIP La Liga president Javier Tebas present ball to Kenyan Premier League chairman Ambrose Rachier when the La Liga boss paid a courtesy call to Kenyan Premier League offices in Nairobi, Kenya on May 10, 2017. [Photo/Stafford Ondego/www.sportpicha.com]

Last week grinning La Liga President Javier Tebas Medrano was in Kenya to sign a partnership deal with the Kenyan Premier League. Over samosas and sausages at the Sarova Stanley Hotel, he spoke a lot of Spanish, claiming the deal would be the beginning of exciting times for Kenyan football, and La Liga as well.

I didn’t, and still don’t, believe what they said. To begin with, I don’t believe a La Liga president can fly all the way from Madrid to come sign some partnership deal in Nairobi. See? This is the president of the world’s most entertaining football league.