After our team's loss over the weekend, I have heard no one speak about the match in both my offline and soccer crazy world, and in wazua.

So I hesitantly went to nation news.

I wasn't all together surprised to find Nyamweya lamenting about a lack of quality strikers. In Kenya, the blame is always on someone else.

This assertion by the FKF is in apparent contradiction to an answer given to me by a friend of mine who is now playing in the first division after spending some time in the premier league. The player had no kind words on the FKF and the entire soccer system.

I have been playing soccer, and though not a gifted player I can't say I am not skilled enough to know a thing or two about soccer, particularly when it comes to scoring goals.

Soccer is a game of combining ideas and skills and executing them with confidence.

Apparently all these are lacking in our team, and have rarely been there. Why?

I have 3 possible reasons for this:

1. We are too oriented to finding personal wealth and fame.

2. We don't consider failure as a building block for future success and have no energy to handle it.

3. The Kenyan nation in general offers an unworkable template for her organizations.

My player friend recommended that among other redemptive measures we should have more under 16 tournaments. This requires local organization and funding, and wider media coverage.

This may bring some change, but what are your thoughts?

I have sadly concluded that we're not a footballing nation. We love football and our strength is in spectating and not playing.

It is time we admitted the truth and push the resources to other sports with potential like rugby, athletics, volleyball, swimming, boxing, motor race etc.

We need to neglect soccer and let it build itself up from the ground again. That's the way to redeem it.

@2012, have we shown a positive trend in these other sports? So far, I haven't seen one.

Have you been to the places that nurture so called talent in Kenya? Jericho Lumumba grounds or Pumwani? You'll struggle to spot the ball just as we did on sunday.

We will be talking about the state of our soccer until kingdom comes unless we go the way of youth academies and also leave soccer adminstartion to managers rather politicians.I say this with a heavy heart.After the match,one of the officials interviewed was a Mr. Mukolwe (don't know what he is in FKF).Surprised i was.I know the guy as a retired former unionist and a wheel-loader operator.I know him many years and i don't remember him being an official even from his village......what do we expect then?

Some good points raised on this thread. It is mainly the officials who are ruining football. They have been doing this for decades now.
See the article below:

http://kenyapage.net/commentary/?p=1097

It's not a sport that conquers the world, it's the spirit of the sportsmen and women and the people behind them.

There was a time I couldn't imagine the Japs winning long distance races.

Have we tried hard enough before we give up? Mind you a good working soccer industry is good not just for our image and national pride but for the economy. I thought things were looking up with the increase in interest in club soccer.

Nyamweya is directly responsible for Kenya's loss to Burundi. Hiring Michel when we clearly could not afford him was plain stupid especially since FKF is flat broke. . It makes you wonder whether Nyamweya is mentally retarded. So Michel left in a huff and Nandwa was hired as a stop gap maeasure. This constant changing of coaches and lack of stability is one reason Kenya fails. Kenya has had 10 coaching changes over the past 5 years. You cant win with such instability.

The problem however is much deeper than Nyamweya. Kenya has been mismanged since the 1990s. It has been one lousy FKF chairman after another.

With regard to Kenya's goals, there is no reason we should give up on football. We can forget being a football power. But Kenya should at least aim for modest success such as winning the CECAFA cup at least once every 3 years. Qualifying for Africa cup of nations at least twice a decade. Give Kenyans something to cheer. It used to happen in the 1980s with semi decent management. The era of FIFA corruption has been very detrimental to Kenya football.

. it's the O factor!