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Year Ender: Why 2024 will be a year Harambee Stars will want to forget

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Harambee Stars in a training session ahead at Kasarani Annex. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

For a nation boasting football talent and with stars flying the flag high abroad, the national team Harambee Stars' dismal performance in 2024 has been nothing short of a paradox.

With captain Michael Olunga, a lethal striker plying his trade in Qatar, and others shining in Europe and beyond, Kenya's national football team astonishingly, continues to stumble on the global stage.

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