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Harambee Stars interim assistant coach John Kamau believes Kenya must work on their striking force ahead of the 2024 Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament scheduled for August.
The East African nation were drawn in Group A alongside two-time winners Morocco and DR Congo, as well as Angola and Zambia, in a pool packed with past champions and quality teams during the event held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) with the 19 teams drawn into four groups on Wednesday, January 15th.
“In a nutshell we need to look at our striking options, we have a problem in that department if you look at the league, teams win 1-0, 2-1, and that is not good enough, we need to build strikers and it is something teams in the league must work on. We have others we want to look at and will proceed when we get the time to start camp,” said Kamau after the draw.
“In a football a match we don’t talk of a gap or how strong your opponent is, we have seen a lot of surprises in tournaments and the most important thing is that we have the goodwill and we now have many stadiums being put in place and those are the basics we need and maybe a challenge to our official, let us not wait until it is too late.
“Put everything in order and we will give a good account of ourselves, we have what it takes to go all the way if we get humble preparations. We had the Mapinduzi Cup that gave us the platform, and the players know what we want, we have 80 percent of local players, who are ready and we need to get the remaining 20 percent ready, we need like a month of training sessions, and if we can manage to get that then the team will be more than ready.”
The tournament features national teams consisting of players currently playing in their respective local leagues.
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