{"id":452844,"date":"2011-07-04T07:58:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/04\/kenya-ricky-solomon-to-vie-for-position-in-football-polls\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:58:03","slug":"kenya-ricky-solomon-to-vie-for-position-in-football-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/kenya-ricky-solomon-to-vie-for-position-in-football-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ricky Solomon to Vie for Position in Football Polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"23.2915549598\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>1 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Kenya Football Coaches Association (Kefoca) chairman Ricky Solomon has thrown his hat into the ring ahead of the August 13 national football elections. Solomon, who is the managing director of the Mombasa-based Mwenge Soccer Academy, said he had decided to vie for a committee member seat owing to pressure from stakeholders and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon said owing to his vast knowledge in football running and as a former International player; he has all the desired credentials to salvage Kenya football.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is disappointed with the dwindling standards of foo football. He said he has what it takes to mobilise for sponsorship to help the youth at the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last few months, I have traversed all over the country including Garissa, where I spotted a lot of talent.&#8221;Nobody cares about the youth especially those at the grassroots and I&#8217;m ready to assist them. We have players who can represent this country in regional and continental matches and we should not always rely on KPL players for national assignments,&#8221; said Solomon.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, former AFC Leopards defender and Strathmore University FC coach Micky Weche will vie the Lang&#8217;ata Football branch chairmanship.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107040201.html\" title=\"Kenya: Ricky Solomon to Vie for Position in Football Polls\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Ricky Solomon to Vie for Position in Football Polls<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) 1 July 2011 Kenya Football Coaches Association (Kefoca) chairman Ricky Solomon has thrown his hat into the ring ahead of the August 13 national football elections. Solomon, who is the managing director of the Mombasa-based Mwenge Soccer Academy, said he had decided to vie for a committee member seat owing to pressure from stakeholders and colleagues. Solomon said owing to his vast knowledge in football running and as a former International player; he has all the desired credentials to salvage Kenya football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Ricky Solomon to Vie for Position in Football Polls - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/kenya-ricky-solomon-to-vie-for-position-in-football-polls\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Ricky Solomon to Vie for Position in Football Polls - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) 1 July 2011 Kenya Football Coaches Association (Kefoca) chairman Ricky Solomon has thrown his hat into the ring ahead of the August 13 national football elections. 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