Nairobi Star (Nairobi)
Alphonce Gari
15 March 2011
Former Harambee Stars midfielder Sammy Shollei has pledged to revive Kenyan football by introducing insurance policies for players to guarantee their welfare once their playing days are over.
Shollei, who is campaigning for the chairman’s position in the forthcoming national football elections said he would combat most issues that have led to the collapse of football.
Speaking at the Ngala grounds in Malindi while winding up a two-week campaign tour of the Coast region, Shollei said most of the current football managers were not players and therefore lack a true passion for the game. Shollei sees this as one of the factors that have led to continuous conflict in football.”My aim is to revive football by bringing players from all over the country into the national team to remove the notion the team is the preserve of players based in certain regions. Kenya has enough talent from all over and this should not be left to go to waste because someone does not want to make the effort,” he said.
The former Kenya Breweries player said the wrangles between KFF and Football Kenya Limited had hurt football and this needs to end.He said it was unfortunate players were not insured which put them at risk of not getting any payments upon injury.
He said production of players like MacDonald Mariga of Inter Milan and Dennis Oliech of AJ Auxerre should have been happening had football administrators been focused on matters of development.
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