NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 31 – The national women’s deaf football team will face four soccer powerhouses among them hosts Brazil in a league format at the delayed 2021 Summer Deaflympics Games to be held in Caxias do Sul, Brazil from May 1-15.
Kenya, the only African representatives, will also face Poland, Japan and United States in a league format that will be a knockout.
In the last edition hosted in Turkey in 2017, Kenya did not participate and they will be seeking to make an impact in the global stage that has football powerhouses.
Russia was crowned champions, clinching gold after beating Poland 6-4 to settle for silver while Brazil took bronze thanks to a 2-1 victory over the Great Britain.
Team Kenya is scheduled to report residential camp Friday, April 1 at the Moi International Sports Center Kasarani.
The national women’s deaf football team will face four soccer powerhouses among them hosts Brazil in a league format at the delayed 2021 Summer Deaflympics Games to be held in Caxias do Sul, Brazil from May 1-15.
Team Kenya is set to trim its provisional squad of 35 players to 23 who will represent the country at the Summer Deaflympics Games to be hosted in Brazil, a nation that has produced football greats like legendary Pele, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Roberto and women’s starlet Marta Vieira da Silva.
The 35 were selected during a two-day National Deaf Women Football championships held in Kakamega the first week of March.
together eight teams with more than 100 players across The Deaf Football Federation of Kenya used the championships that brought the country as the National Trials to select best players for the Summer Deaflympics which will be held between May 1 to 15 in Caxias Do Sul, Brazil.
Led by National Women’s Deaf Football team coach Ben Omukuba, a panel of four tacticians included Martha Mumbua, Sabina Gicuku and Hassan Hussein who selected the team.
Waweru appealed to corporates to partner with the federation to implement more programmes even after the Summer Deaflympic.
The Deaf football women’s team earned a direct ticket to the 24th Deaflympiad after Ghana and Zanzibar who were its main challengers failed to turn up for the qualification tournament at the Moi International Sports Centre Kasarani in Nairobi, last year.
