FIFA Club World Cup: Perspective from a Kenyan Football Fan
Gor Mahia vs Esperance in the CAF Champions League first round on March 6, 2018 In the build-up to the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup , I thought that it was the best time to revisit a time in history when a Kenyan team beat a team that now represents the continent in the global stage. When this tournament was announced, I, like many others, joined in the bandwagon of visceral negative reactions to the tournament. Just coming off a long, grueling and injury-laden season, this was no time to add another list of fixtures to the list. The football calendar is already stacked to the brim, congested and bursting at the seams, and the players are paying for it with their hamstrings and other muscle groups that I am too unfamiliar with to know their names. These reactions are justified . "FIFPRO’s Player Workload Monitoring tool, which monitors 1500 players spread across the globe, revealed that 54 percent experienced exc...
