AFC Leopards will turn to its youth team as a feeder after FIFA slapped the club with a two-window transfer ban, chairman Dan Shikanda has announced.Ingwe was a fortnight ago banned by the world football governing body from signing players until the end of the 2022/23 season for forcefully signing and registering players during a time that they were serving a ban from acquiring players.##NAJAVA_MECA_6454419##Ingwe had been banned from signing players until they settled the Ksh. 1.8 million owed to their former captain Soter Kayumba who reported the club to world football governing body. The club however registered four players namely John Makwata, Cliff Nyakeya, Victor Omune and Josphat Lopaga during the mid-season window attracting FIFA’s wrath.Shikanda. Who is seeking reelection for another team says they will try to improve the youth team so that it can act as a feeder to the senior outfit during this ban period.“We are organizing ourselves because we know that we have an issue with FIFA and we will turn to the young boys going forward. We have also been trying to improve our youth team so that we can get two or three players promoted to the senior team and focus on our matches, “he stated.2021/22 season Last season we promoted the highest number of players from our youth team (6)A total of 5 players got a chance to feature for the senior team. 1.Lameck Moendi 2.Zachary Njite 3.Eric Mbithe 4.Giovanni Lukhumwa 5.Owen Mboya 6.Maxwell Otieno #INGWE pic.twitter.com/jxLp0aXfiW— AFC Leopards (@AFCLeopards) June 14, 2022 The former Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards forward believes that players that got promoted to the senior team at the start of the season have now matured and that the team will be built around them. The six promoted players are; Lameck Moendi , Zachary Njite, Eric Mbithe, Giovanni Lukhumwa, Owen Mboya, Maxwell Otieno. Lukhumwa, Otieno and Njite have established himself in the team.“The young players that we promoted have matured now and the goal is to build our team around them,’ he added.On the status of the club’s debts to ex-players like Kayumba, Shikanda says they are almost done with paying debts.“We are almost done with paying the players that resulted in us getting banned,”.
