Kenyan women’s football poster girl Jentrix Shikangwa is set to join Tuskish top tier side join Fatih Karagümrük Sportif Faaliyetler San. Tic. A.S. Division.Shikangwa who was attached to three-time Kenyan champions Vihiga Queens is set to leave the country on Sunday, in the morning and land in Instabul, Turkey before midday.Her move comes barely days after the club’s first choice goalkeeper Lilian Awuor who has a number of Harambee Starlets caps and appearances under her belt signed with French side ASJ Soyaux Charante.”We hope that more of these interests will develop into opportunities for our girls to go forth and conquer the football world. As Vihiga Queens, we shall forever be grateful to Jentrix for her services to our club especially during the CAF WCL CECAFA Zone Qualifiers where she emerged as the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP) and scored our winning goal in the finals from the penalty spot,” wrote Vihiga while bidding the queen goodbye.Vihiga Queens star Jentrix Shikangwa is set to join Turkish top-tier side Fatih Karagümrük Sportif Faaliyetler San. Tic. A.S pic.twitter.com/HmNzYUYWI3— Jeff Kinyanjui (@Nyash88) January 21, 2022 Since braking to the limelight following her heroics in the 2019 edition of the CECAFA Championships where her brace in the final saw Starlets wrestle the title from the hands of Tanzania, the winger has never looked back as her football career has been on an upward trajectory. It is in the same year that she was voted as the Most Promising Player by the SOYA panelists.The performance in the regional tournament where she netted ten goals earned herself a name despite being a student at the Wiyeta Girls set the ball rolling for her rise to professional football as it is understood that agents started milling around the Queens camp in a bid to sign her into their respective agencies.Before making her debut in the national team in 2018 where she played her first match at the age of 16 against Ethiopia, the left footed attacker had starred in Primary and Secondary School games. The great Jentrix Shikangwa , reminds me of Anami Derrick. pic.twitter.com/P3QzLijZZA— Max (@BettKMax) January 18, 2022 She clinched the ‘Golden Boot’ in the primary school games in 2015 and 2016 and went on to take the secondary school games by storm as she inspired Wiyeta to claim both national and East Africa titles.Despite having to strike a balance between studies and football, Shikangwa was always available for national team duties as she was involved in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics qualifiers where she netted the sole goal in the return game away to Ghana but was not enough to inspire the team to edge the West Africans who prevailed 3-2 on aggregate.Winning is not everything but making the effort to win is everything.SJ14 pic.twitter.com/hwma1bqLek— Jentrix Shikangwa Milimu (@Jentyshikanwa) November 17, 2021 At the same time, she played a crucial role in helping Queens win the Kenyan Women’s Premier League three times in a row and went on to stand out in the inaugural CAF Women’s Champions League CECAFA qualifiers where her double was enough to send the Kenyan team to the continental tournament at the expense of Ethiopia’s CBE.
