FKF Limuru subbranch has called on the government to be more pro active in helping federations tap talent in the villages. The officials said that the only way of having a national team that will save Kenya from the current low performance is to have talents nurtured from schools both primary and secondary and village football teams.

Evans Onyango the Limuru sub county FKF chairman said that the villages and the primary schools have immense talents that can be tapped and have Kenya fly high in soccer in near future.

“There is talent in the villages and schools around, we see them and we know the boys and the girls who can shine if they can be coached in proper fields and with good environment,” Onyango said.

Onyango added it is not difficult to copy what Europe does with talent by identifying them and giving just what they require to make them refined for the football pitch.

“It is very easy to nurture young people only if they can be given training at an early stage, Europe does so it is doable, we hold our breadth when we see the dribbling skills and scoring prowess here in gods forsaken play fields and deplorable boots,” Onyango said.

The chairman was speaking during Limuru sub county Under-17 tournament where teams drawn from Limuru’s five wards fought for the trophy.

The chairman decried the state of the facilities noting that the whole of Limuru sub county does not have a standard football pitch for the young ones or even for senior teams to train.

“We had to beg St Pauls University to grant us this play ground and as you can see the season is rainy the boys are playing in the worst possible way in water logged pitch. You can imagine the kind of display these lads can show if it were a proper stadium,” Onyango said.

The branch secretary Julius Wambua said that the search of talent should narrow down to villages where unseen and untapped talent exist.

Wambua said that it was high time FKF participated in all village meeting to sensitise people of the great potential in sports and subsequently make an effort to make good playgrounds.

“We must now be proactive in the search for talent if Kenya is to become a football power house in future, we need to be in all chief barazas and schools meeting and all public participation meetings to scout for talent and this goes in line with the vision of the Competency Based Curriculum,” Wambua said.

Wambua noted that FKF have qualified coaches and referees and more should be dispatched to villages to fish out talent.

During the tournament Ngecha Ward team emerged the winner.