Competing Against High Schools

This past weekend we brought some of our primary school football players to Kisumu to participate in the Kisumu Boys High School open. There were twelve girls teams participating in the tournament including a couple of other clubs (with much older women) and the rest were secondary schools. All of the girls in our club that have finished primary school are in their various boarding secondary schools so during the school term, we are only able to compete with the primary school girls. It was a good opportunity to give them a chance to show us how much they have improved.

Our young girls showed great potential and impressed many by playing so well against much older and more mature girls. We started with a hard fought draw and then blew away our next opponent 6-0. We won the last preliminary and then qualified for semifinals. We played an excellent club from Kisumu that usually defeats our senior team, sometimes rather easily. This time, our young girls played very strong and even created more scoring opportunities than their opponents, though the game ended in a draw and went to post-match penalties, which we lost. We proceeded to win the 3rd place match fairly easily.

All in all, it was a great showing for the youngest team in the tournament!