Thursday 06th March, 2025 09:20 AM|
The Ministry of Sports has expressed satisfaction with the appointment of South African Benni McCarthy as the brand new Kenya National soccer staff coach.
The Cabinet Secretary for Sports Salim Mvurya says the previous Bafana Bafana deadly ahead is the appropriate man to steer Harambee Stars contemplating his huge expertise in his enjoying profession that spanned over 10 years.
“On behalf of the federal government of Kenya, I want to warmly welcome Benni McCarthy and his staff. I’m glad to welcome the brand new technical bench for Harambee Stars led by Benni.
He is very certified to be the Harambee Stars coach and we’re assured that we’ve got the appropriate man for the job,” CS Mvurya stated after McCarthy paid him a courtesy name at his Talanta Plaza workplace in Upper Hill, Nairobi.
Already, the Ministry of Sports has positioned big calls for on McCarthy who’s starting a brand new journey in his teaching profession after touchdown his first nationwide staff managerial position with Stars.
CS Mvurya says the nation is already bold and high on the to-do checklist for the brand new gaffer is to take Kenya to the FIFA World Cup. Further, Mvurya stated that it will be noble for the nation to compete nicely and win the African Nations Championship in August and the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations each on residence soil.
“We are looking forward to Kenya qualifying for the World Cup and also being an impactful team in CHAN where we want to host and win. Also the 2027 AFCON, we want to host and win it as well,” Mvurya stated as he pledged full authorities assist in direction of the Football Kenya Federation and the brand new technical bench.
On his half, McCarthy,47, promised to work further onerous as a staff to ship the goodies for Kenya to make the native followers smile once more so far as the nationwide staff is worried.
“I really appreciate the warm welcome by the Minister. I would like to state that as a team we are going to work extremely hard for the Kenyan faithful, the fans, the government and the federation. We want to make them proud of their national team, and proud of being Kenyans.”
“We want to qualify for many things, we are hosting CHAN and for sure we want to give a good show. We are in it to win it because it is on our home soil. To begin, we have two important games ahead of us and that is our main focus currently. We feel that we have the players to play for the country and to get desired results and we hope that we can qualify for World Cup next year then you see Kenya being part of the spectacular event,” McCarthy remarked.
His first task shall be towards The Gambia on seventeenth March in Senegal earlier than internet hosting Gabon for match-day six of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.