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KHU IN TROUBLE: National hockey teams boycott training ahead of 2016 Rio Olympic Games qualifiers

SPORTS; HOCKEY-BRIAN MUSASIA
Kenya National team player Brian Musasia when they played Egypt during the World League round one at Citypark, Nairobi. ON 06/09/14 PHOTO : JENIPHER WACHIE

With less than two-and-a-half months remaining before this year’s Africa hockey cup of nations cup Rio 2016 Olympic qualifiers, the men and women’s national teams are yet to begin preparations.

The players kept away from national team training owing to unpaid allowances from previous national assignments. Africa Hockey Federation (AFHF) released the dates of the continental biennial event as 17-25 October and Ismailia, Egypt as hosts.

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