nakujua wrote:
Kenyans are good at athletics, women volleyball and rugby 7's when they feel like it, that's where greater focus and effort for investment and improvement should be.
Football hata tupatie dream team ya akina mj, bob, julie, mwagi, waiguru, keitanny, add to that @McReggae na hata tuongeze @masukuma hapo nothing much will change, we do not have much talent hapo, ama maybe haijatafutwa vizuri.
Never understood why we encourage five foot four tall young men to even play football, and our best goal-keepers would look like dwarfs if placed next to akina buffon.
This is just dead wrong. The only sport that Kenyans are naturally good at is long distance running.
Whether a country does well in a team sport depends on how seriously it is taken and how well it is organized and whether the culture of that sport exists.
You really think Kenyans are naturally better volleyballers or rugby players than Uganda and Tanzania? The answer is no. The culture of Rugby is barely existent in Tanzania and rugby is not well organized in Uganda as it is in Kenya.
Kenya was not always good at rugby sevens either. Back in the 1990s they used to get clobbered by teams like Tunisia. But they got better organized and corporate sponsorship came in and made a difference.
None of this happens by accident.
If Kenya got its act together in football, they can go to the world cup. Some countries like Japan used to be useless at football as recently as the 1990s. They got organized and became a world power. Now they are a power in women's football too.
Most importantly:
There is no country that dominates a team sport because of talent alone. It is culture and organization that determine how well a country does.