Harambee Stars to play Uganda Cranes in friendly match in Nairobi

By Our Reporter

The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) have confirmed two friendly matches lined up for Harambee Stars during the upcoming international break.

The Harambee Stars will play against Uganda Cranes on September 8 before another on October 10 against Libya.

The game against Uganda will be played in Nairobi while the venue for their game against Libya match will be played either in Morocco or Tunisia.

The federation revealed the future plans for Harambee Stars as they unveiled the new technical bench after Sebastien Migne’s contract was terminated.

Francis Kimanzi was appointed the new head coach and he will be deputized by KCB’s head coach Zedekiah Otieno. Harambe Starlets Lawrence Webo will be the goalkeeper trainer.

The two friendly matches will be the first duties for the new technical bench of the Kenyan national team.

Kenya were knocked out of the 2020 African Nation’s Championship (Chan) qualifiers by Tanzania following a 4-1 penalty shoot-out win at Kasarani in Nairobi. Both matches in the first and the second legs ended in goalless draws.

Uganda will be expected to use the friendly as preparations for the 2020 CHAN qualifier against Burundi on September 20 while Kenya will use the two friendlies to prepare for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Qualifiers.

Kenya were pooled in Group G alongside Egypt, Togo Comoros and open up their 2021 Afcon qualification campaign against the Pharaohs of Egypt on November 11th, 2019 in Cairo.