Jamal Mohamed, an exciting midfielder with Swedish club Enskoping is one of the inclusions in a 25-man squad Kenya announced to prepare for their September 6 2010 World Cup/African Nations Cup qualifying match with Namibia in Nairobi.
Mohamed last played for Kenya in December 2007, during the East and Central Africa Challenge Cup in Tanzania. Then, he was with Ghanaian club, Liberty Professionals. When the cup qualifiers started this year, new Kenya coach Francis Kimanzi did not pick Mohamed because he [the coach] said he had no idea in which country or club the player was.
The Kenya Football Federation (KFF) secretary general Sammy Obingo on Wednesday announced the squad and the Kenyan Premier League (KPL), who have been temporarily managing the Harambee Stars jointly with the KFF said the squad would report on August 25 at the training camp at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.
KPL�s Technical Officer, Frank Okoth, also indicated that the crucial qualifying match will be at the Moi International Sports Centre on September 6, and apparently not at Nyayo National Stadium as previously widely believed.
Domestic club players will be released to play for their respective sides in KPL League matches on the weekend of August 30 and 31, Okoth said.
Goalkeeper Arnold Origi who was injured in Kenya�s 2-0 defeat of Zimbabwe in Nairobi during the June qualifying series is out of the squad together with Kenya�s best forward Dennis Oliech who will miss the September match through suspension. Oliech took his second yellow card in the 0-0 draw in Kenya�s last match with Zimbabwe in Harare.
Young Victor Mugabe, brother of midfielder MacDonald Mariga, has earned a call-up. Mugabe joined Belgian club Germina Beerschot as soon as he was identified as prospective key member of the national team but was unavailable thereafter.
Notable omissions is Moses Odhiambo of Rwanda club APR and Boniface Ambani the striker with Tanzania champions Young Africans.
A complete new call-up is Evans Amoka of Ulinzi Stars while Mulinge Munandi, the ex-Tusker defender now at Ulinzi, who last played for the Harambee Stars in the 2006 African Nations Cup qualifiers is back.
The Kenya squad: 1. Noah Ayuko (Sher Karuturi), 2. Jackton Odhiambo (Gor Mahia), 3. Duncan Ochieng' (Mathare United), 4. John Njoroge (Tusker), 5. Edgar "Fighter" Ochieng' (Mathare United), 6. Anthony Kimani (Mathare United), 7. Lloyd Wahome (Mathare United), 8. George Owino (Young Africans), 9.Victor Mugabe (Germinal Beerschot FC, Belgium), 10. MacDonald Mariga (Parma, Italy), 11. Evans Amuoka (Ulinzi Stars), 12. Osborne Monday (Tusker), 13. Jockins Atudo (Sony Sugar), 14. Jamal Mohamed (Eskopings, Sweden), 15. Robert Mambo (GIF Sundsvall, Sweden), 16. Austin Makacha (Mathare United), 17. Titus Mulama (Norway), 18. Patrick Oboya (Siad Most, Czech Republic), 19. Allan Wanga (Petro de Luanda, Angola), 20. Abdrew Oyombe (Gor Mahia), 21. Joseph Shikokoti (Tusker), 22. Mulinge Munandi (Ulinzi Stars), 23. Levi Muaka (World Hope), 24. Kevin Ochieng' (Mathare United), 25. Francis Ouma (Mathare United).
Coach -Francis Kimanzi
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