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Another year of false hopes from Harambee Stars; and true to form, it ended in anguish

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Harambee Stars defender Eugine Asike reacts to an injury during their FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Qualifier Group E match against Uganda Cranes at Nyayo national stadium on September 02, 2021. [Stafford Ondego,Standard]

Football is littered with riches to rags stories – slumbering giants who sleepwalk off cliffs and into the depth of their domestic pyramid.

For a number of national football teams, their place in the game sits in a perpetual yoyo between success and failure, agony and ecstasy, qualification and knockout.

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