Monday, December 02, 2013
Just as the GOtv Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup is a known annual
fixture, Eritrean players going missing at the tournament is fast
becoming a yearly date.
Nairobi woke up to news of yet another case of two missing Eritrea
players, the fifth year running the team is being embroiled in such
incidents.
The Cecafa central organizing committee sitting at Nyayo Stadium on
Sunday morning has been briefed on the mysterious disappearance of the
two Eritrean players from their camp at Milele Hotel, although
identities of the missing players remained unclear by press time.
Federation Kenya Football (FKF) National Executive Committee member
Elly Mukolwe made the revelations to the committee chaired by Abdiqaan
Said (Somalia) and attended by the Cecafa Secretary General Nicholas
Musonye.
“The two players are said to have gone missing after their evening
training session on Saturday,” said Cecafa media officer Rogers
Mulindwa.
A dozen Eritrean players also disappeared from their residential
hotel in Kampala last year. The current matter has been handed over to
the relevant security agencies.
Meanwhile, four matches that had earlier been scheduled for Nyayo
Stadium between Wednesday Dec.4th and Thursday Dec. 5th have been moved
to Afraha Stadium in Nakuru.
Musonye said the teams that will have advanced to the knock out
stage from Nakuru will be airlifted directly to Mombasa, a designated
venue for the quarter finals.
The semifinalists will, thereafter, be flown to Kisumu and back to Nairobi where the finals will be played.