Stars can’t afford to disappoint fans today

Football fans are hoping that the national team, Harambee Stars, will not disappoint this evening when it faces Congo in a dead-rubber 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at Moi Sports Centre in Kasarani.

While the visitors will be playing for points and push to increase their tally to nine points in Group E that also includes Guinea Bissau and Zambia, Kenya will be playing for pride, having been eliminated after collecting only one point from four matches.

Kenyans were hoping that the Stars would qualify for the continental tournament when the national team’s technical bench was changed, and Stanley Okumbi appointed the team’s coach by the new Football Kenya Federation office, but there has been little to write home about.

Okumbi lost his first two matches in March when Guinea Bissau beat Kenya away and at home, and the opportunity to qualify for 2017 Afcon was lost. Okumbi has not registered a single win in all his four international matches. The national performance of the national team has been wanting, and this was illustrated by Harambee Stars’ loss to Kenya Premier League side Posta Rangers, and its drop in the Fifa rankings from position 103 in February to 129 by last week.

The FKE must find out where the problem lies because the patience of the team’s supporters is fast running out.

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