FIFA referee Peter Waweru Kamaku opines that match officials are physically ready for the kick-off of the Football Kenya Federation Premier League campaign scheduled for Saturday.However, the 2021/2022 FKFPL referee of the year believes that they are lacking in terms of match fitness owing to the lengthy hiatus since the end of last season.FKF Premier League referees set to undergo PETThe 40-year-old referee was speaking at Kasarani on Tuesday during the first day of the Physical Endurance Test (PET) which stretches until Thursday as they get ready for the league kick-off this weekend and revealed that the officials are physically fit as they have been engaging at different levels.”Physically we are fit because there are matches that were going on even at the grassroots level and we were officiating. I can say that we are good physically, perhaps lacking match fitness,” he said.##NAJAVA_MECA_6816040##The FKF Premier League match officials were taken through endurance and agility drills that will assess their physical ability as well as medical tests that vouch for their fitness to officiate the league matches.”The PET is done every quarter of a year to determine the fitness of officials. For referees, we go round 10 laps, run 15 seconds and walk 18 seconds. The assistant referees do the same but rest two seconds more, that is the national level,” he added.The FKF PL PET training will culminate on Thursday, November 17, 2022, and afterward, the FKF National Super League match officials will follow suit on November 22, and November 24, 2022. Thereafter, FKF Division One League referees will have their day between November 28, and November 30, 2022.
