Kenya set for World Cup in Russia

KENYA'S STREET CHILDREN SEVEN SIDE TEAM PREPARES FOR WORLD CUP Kenya's Street Child seven-a-side team doing some warm up at Serena Grounds in Mombasa County. The team is preparing for World Cup which runs from May 10-24. Photo/Kelvin Karani

Kenya is among the 24 teams, which will play in next month’s Street Child seven-a-side World Cup ahead of the FIFA World Cup in Moscow, Russia. The tournament runs from May 10-24.

Kenya will be represented by the Mombasa based Glad’s House Orphanage, which has been picked by the event organisers for the second year running after making debut at the 2014 Street ChildWorld Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where they lost to Mauritius, Pakistan and USA before beating India but did not proceed to the quarter-final stages