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Kenyan clubs should dare to host regional contests

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Lepards’ Abdalla Juma controls the ball as player of Academie Tchite from Burundi tackles him during the Nile Basin Cup quarter-final tie at the Khartoum Stadium Wednesday evening . [PHOTO: COURTESY]

A  man called Gamal Alwali is the reason why Omdurman soccer club Al Merreikh is such an exciting outfit. They have clout in mass following, physical assets such as a magnificent stadium, and ability to buy good players from all over Africa.

In the last few days they were eying AFC Leopards Kenya striker, Allan Wanga, and according to Nicholas Musonye, the Cecafa secretary general who is a Kenyan, “the deal as good as done.” Musonye said interest on Wanga was “at the very highest level,” in the Merreikh management.

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