The main issue affecting kenyan football is money.Almost every team inthe top league has been in a financial.Players and coaches are not getting paid and this reflects on their on pitch performances which are below average.

This can be solved if private investors take over clubs and put maximum effort into making them better and competitive.Wazito fc and Mt.kenya united were taken over at the sametime by diffrent investors who promised the same things yet it seems that the Mt.Kenya united owner has continued widening the hole left by his predecesors.
Wazito owner Ricardo Badoer onthe other hand has been delivering on his promises and the team look set to achieve promotion back into the top flight.

We need Multi-Millionares and big companies such as Safaricom and media groups to take over football clubs and develop a proper competitive league.This obviously a big risk and just like any other business you need to take risks to enjoy rewards.We are falling further and further behind other teams in Africa like Enyimba,Horoya,Vipers and Pyramids have been all taken over by private investors inthe last couple of years and have all been a success.

The Indian super league is a great example it was launched in 2013 by IMG reliance,star sports and the all India football federation.It is a closed league with ten teams owned by businessmen,former cricket players and bollywood stars.The ISL’s marketing strategies have been impressive all teams now fill up big stadium and tv audiences are rising year after year in a society that sees cricket as a gift from God it is amazing to see how league is being run.The I league that still runs was formed in 1996 and struggled due to lack of popularity and poor marketing.The success of the ISL has has been reflected on the national team at all levels with both the youth teams and the first team enjoying a great deal of success.Good young players are being produced locally developed coaches are onthe rise aswell.

Both Australia and the US who both have the same league format are now begining to produce a cluster of youngsters on a regular basis.

A more competive league means teams will have proper academies and the flow of talent will be unbelivable.Scouting will be well done and this will help both inthe development of local coaches and the national team at all levels.Young people are the future and investment into them is needed.

German football is booming, reaping the rewards of the strategy drawn up after their dismal performances at Euro 2000, when Germany finished bottom of their group. Forced into an overhaul of youth football, the DFB, the Bundesliga and the clubs decided that the development of more technically proficient homegrown players would be in everyone’s best interests. This led to the creation of academies right across the top two divisions and the results have been briliant.

We all know how much kenyans love football,According to 2017 statistics Kenya was inthe top two nations when it came to the viewership of top Epl sides Manchester United and Arsenal.

Football in kenya is not well marketed,the Sportpesa cup and Chapa Dimba were well advertised by sportpesa and Safaricom respectively and it showed with the high number of turnout.

These local companies whom more than 90% of their customers are Kenyans should be doing more for the community and investing into football rather than throwing money at greedy chairmans inform of spornsorships.It will all good PR so it is a win win.

At the end of the day one thing should be clear that it doesn’t matter how much petrol you put into a car if the driver is bad you’ll probably end up crashing,the same can be said for kenyan football.

So the caf champions league final will be contested between Esperance and Wydad.This adds to the long standing tradition of north African dominance in African football which has seen clubs from that region win 89 continental trophies.The first Caf organized event took place inthe 1964-65 season it took four years for a north African team to make the final it was Al ismaily from egypt in 1968 the won it infront of 130,000 fans at the Naser stadium in Cairo.Ghal el mahalla from egypt made the final in 1974 but lost and Mc Alger won the competition in 1976.North African dominance begun inthe 1980s where from 1981-1994 saw a north African team win the competition exept for 1983 where Al ahly lost to Asante Kotoko from Ghana.This period saw Raja,Wydad,Esperance,Zamalek and Club Africain all win tittles.It is similar story inthe much younger Caf confedarations cup which has seen ten out of it’s fourteen instalments being won by North African teams.The two main factors are money and Fanbases.

1.Money
North African teams generate yearly incomes of more than $10 million.Last year saw record Wydad Casablanca generate $12 million which is a club record and Champions league winners Esperance generated $9 million.Cairo based sides Al ahly and Zamalek generate much larger sums than that.Pyramids of Egypt were recently taken over by a saudi billionare and they spent more than $50 million on transfers alone which is unheard of in Africa With that much money at disposal north African teams tend to have better infrastracture and can attract better quality players A prime example is Anice Badri at esperance the Tunisian midfielder is a Lyon academy graduate and has been senastional since he joined the Tunisian giants as they push for a second champions league tittle in two years other African countries normally rely on the government for money which means when the goverments don’t have money then their is no money and this is the case most of the time. The richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, is Nigerian,” Andrew Randa, a Nigerian journalist who reports on the Nigerian Premier Football League said.
“He was rumoured to have wanted to take over Arsenal FC twice, and Nigerians ask why he cannot invest in Kano Pillars, a club from his home region? But football is political in Nigeria, it is used as a bargaining chip. Most Nigerian clubs revolve around government agencies.”“For now, everything is in the hands of government; but there will be significant improvement the time private investors, with real commitment, come in and own [a] greater percentage of the shares. Government cannot continue to run every aspect of the system, it’s not possible at all,”Christian Chukwu a former nigerian national team coach told The Independent of Nigeria.Speaking to DW,Gabon striker Chico Sassou said,“Here in Gabon, football is organised by the state. When the state has problems, as a player, you get less money.”
This seems to be changing though as more teams are being taken over by wealthy individuals for example Enyimba in Nigeria who have a patnership with english premier league side West ham United and Guinea’s Horoya AC, which is owned by millionaire Antonio Souaré.
He ensures Horoya has a budget of $5 million and is also financing a brand new stadium and a state of the art football academy.
In East Africa, diversified revenue streams are slowly being established. The Ugandan Premier League recently signed a 10-year, $7-million TV deal with Chinese television channel StarTimes. The Kenyan Premier League has developed a partnership with La Liga, which it consults concerning television deals as well.
A club in the second division in Tunisia like Beja has facilities that are better than most first division teams in Africa.

2.Fanbase
This where the age old phrase without fans football is nothing comes to lighf.Even when the money and proper facilities are in place like in South Africa.
During the tail end of the 1990s, the ultra movement filtered down from Europe to North Africa. As a result, organised groups of supporters began choreographing chants, displaying tifos and travelling thousands of kilometres to away matches.
Teams like Raja and Wydad are respected all over the world for this.
The first ultra groups appeared in Tunisia and Morocco before spreading to Egypt and Algeria.
There’s a fear factor and mental block when most African teams travel to North Africa it happens year after year.Teams mostly play in empty stadiums during home matches but North African stadiums harbour volcanic atmospheres that intimidate visitors.
Sundowns’ coach, Pitso Mosimane, further fleshed out the intimidation his side experienced when playing in Algeria.
“The big thing about North Africans is all about the intimidation. When we were playing Setif, I remember at one stage one of my players was running down the line from the right side and the bottles were dropping from the top. I mean, how do you keep playing?”
Mosimane further indicated that Zamalek supporters issued death threats to his players leading up to the final of the 2016 CAF Champions League final the Brazilians won.
“There have been messages sent to the players, whoever has Instagram, Facebook, Twitter… they’ve received death threats, all of them.”
Following the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions, the governments of both nations imposed caps on attendance, slightly reducing the advantage.

With their superior fanbases and financial muscle Arab clubs look more and more unstoppable year after year.

1)Maxi Gomez
The 22 year uruguayan striker is in his second season at the spanish club which has had a campaign to forget.He has scored 13 goals in laliga so far and has registered intrested from west ham united among others.

2)Andrea petagna
The 23 years atalanta loanie has scored 14 goals for 11th placed spal inthe Serie A this season.The italian has been subject to intrest from Leicester city who are rumoured to want to pay upto €20 million for his services.

3)Pepe
The ivorian is part of a lille team that has taken ligue 1 by storm this year from battling relegation last year to champions league qualification and beating champions Psg 5-1.The 23 year old has scored 20 league goals and layed on 11 assists and has registered intrest from psg and Arsenal.

4)Rafael Leao
The portuguese teenage sensation is tipped for superstardom.Dubbed the portugueese Mbappe he joined lille on a free after leaving sporting lisbon.Often played on the wing the youngster has scored 8 goals and layed on 8 assists in his 24 ligue 1 games.Manchester city have been linked with the 19 year old.

5)Rodrigo de paul
The 24 year old Argentinian midfielder has been the shinning light in an Udinese team that has battled relegation all season long inthe serie A.The former valencia and Racing club man has 9 goals 5 assists from midfield this year and been the subject of strong intrest from Napoli,inter and tottenham

1.Casablanca derby
It is between Raja casablanca and wydad casablanca.The Casablanca derby has extensive national media coverage and is a topic of debate for several days before and after the match between the fans of both clubs, whether in the streets, schools or workplace.The clubs first met in 1956 with raja winning 1-0 they met for the second time in 1957 wydad won 3-0. On october 20th 2007 during an encounter between rival supporters hamza Eddali a 17 year wydad fan died. April 18, 2010, after Raja beat Wydad with a score of one to none, a fight broke out between Wydad and Raja fans, resulting in injuries and property damage. Over one hundred people were arrested.Wydad have won 19 league titles and 9 domestic cups to raja’s 11 league titles and 8 cup wins.Raja have a superior record in continential competitions where they have won 6 titles to wydad’s 3.

2.Algiers derby
Between USMA and MCA. The first met in 1940 with MC alger winning 4-1.Drama occurred on 21 September, ten minutes after the end of the match between USM Alger and MC Alger. Part of the platform 13 from the Olympic Stadium collapsed, killing two spectators, and injuring several hundred others in Algiers. The ground was literally stolen from under the feet of the victims as they took the stairs no. 5 to leave the platform and celebrate the victory. “The overload in this part of the stadium, and the large number of supporters eventually provoked this incident,” said Youcef Kara, director of the Olympic complex.They have met 160 times MCa have won 40 times whilst USMA have won 29 times.Both have clubs have won the same number of league titles 7 and cups 8.MCA have won the champions league once.

1.Cairo derby
Between Zamalek and Al ahly. First mate in a friendly in 1917 al ahly won 1-0.Ever since their creation, both clubs have been the top clubs in the Egyptian Premier League, the country’s top-flight football league. In the first half of the twentieth century. Ahly won their first league title when the Egyptian Premier League was first created in the 1948-49 season and won 39 domestic titles after that. Zamalek managed to win the league 12 times only.

The largest winning margin in this derby was 6-0 for Zamalek This was in 1944 Egypt Cup Final. While the largest winning margin in the League was 6-1 respectively for Al-Ahly. A margin that was repeated twice by Al-Ahly once in 1942 and in 2002. Fans of both clubs can be violent when in anger. Numerous fights, injuries and deaths have been reported before matters became more controlled due to Egypt’s authoritarian regime. Yet many fights and riots still occur after derby matches between both sets of fans, leading the government to post even higher numbers of Central Security Forces troops in the stadium during the derby. The number of fights have increased with the increasing popularity of the “ultras” movement.

Matches between both teams can be decisive. Whenever they meet in the Egypt Cup the winner usually goes on to win the cup, or at least grab the runners up medal. Moreover, the team which has the aggregate result on its favor in the league rarely misses the chance to win the Egyptian Premier League.

Non-Egyptian referees are often flown in to officiate the derby in order to ensure impartiality.

In 2018, World Soccer Magazine selected the Cairo Derby as the 10th most fierce derby in the world.Besides the estimated 50 million domestic TV audience, the game is huge all over North Africa, the Middle East and the entire world.Al ahly have won 105 trophies whilst zamalek have won 29.

Europa League
Sevilla vs slavia prague =sevilla win
Napoli vs salzburg =Napoli win
Egypt Premier Legue
El-entag El harby vs Al ittihad =OV2.5
France national league
Quevilly Rouen vs Le mans =OV2.5

Merkantil bank liga (hungary)

Nyiregyhaza vs siofok =U2.5

Balmazujvaros sport vs zalaegerszegi =zalaegerszegi win

Italy serie c-group B

Ternana vs sambnedettese =sambnedettese win

Botola pro (morrocco)

Hassania Agadir vs Berkane=Hassania Agadir win

Mls 2019 season began with a bang with 41 goals scored with every team scoring except for defending champions atlanta united who lost 2-0 to wayne rooney’s dc united even new boys cincinnati scoring their first-ever mls goal through Leonardo Bertone but unfortunately lost 4-1 to seattle sounders.
Despite major departures such as sebastian giovinco,miguel almiron and david villa mls teams have not disappointed in their recruitment with the likes of marco fabian joining philadelphia union from frankfurt the attacking midfielder has 42 caps for his nation mexico he also won the german cup last year orlando city have signed champions league,english premier league euro 2016 winner and former manchester united and sporting lisbon winger luis nani carles gil has joined the new england revolution for 2 million dollars a club record fee the spaniard joins from deportivo la corona he previously played for aston villa atlanta united have replaced miguel almiron who joined newcastle united in january with copa libertadores winner and south american player of the year pitty martinez he is joined by florentine pogba who atlanta joined for free forward alexandru mitrita has joined new york fc some of the new coaches are matias almeida who joined san jose earthquakes from chivas guadalajara where he won the concacaf champions league frank deboer has been brought in by the champions atlanta united to replace the departed tata martino copa libertadores runner-up and twice winner of the argentinian league with boca juniors guillermo barros schelotto has joined la galaxy kaleb porter has joined columbus crew mark Santos has been brought in by the vancouver whitecaps luchi gonzalez will be at the helm of fc dallas most of these coaches like to play attacking pressing high-intensity football and have won at a levels despite the departures and the and the new arrivals some of the players to watch will be those who have not made any movements the likes of wayne rooney at dc united ignacio piatti of montreal impact carlos vela and diego rossi of lafc and of course zlatan ibrahimovic of the la galaxy they are some exciting young footballers also the likes of gianluca busio of sporting kansas city and efrain alvarez la galaxy
The mls viewership ratings went up last year with the mls cup final drawing in more than two million viewers becoming the most-watched mls cup since 1997 viewership went up by 71% compared to 2019 final. All-in-all if the first gameweek is anything to go by then we are in for an exciting mls season with goals goals and more goals being the order of the day a lot young exciting footballers will be on display and judging by the way teams have boosted the squads we are in for exciting high intensity football matches week in week out I hope we don’t get disappointed.