Harambee Starlets will not participate in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics qualifiers.CAF, Africa’s football governing body, on Sunday evening released a list of 25 countries to take part in the qualifiers with the draw set for Tuesday in Cairo, Egypt, yet, Kenya is conspicuously missing. The 25 nations include Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, RD Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia.##NAJAVA_MECA_7290490##Starlets, Kenya’s senior women’s national football team, have not played a match since FIFA banned Kenya from all football activities for government interference in February last year.The ban has since been lifted and the Starlets’ men’s counterparts, Stars have since played Iran in Tehran in a friendly.Matano throws jibe at Gor Mahia’s style of play in wake of barren draw in the clash of titansConversely, in April, Starlets were scheduled to play a friendly against Albania in Tirana, but it aborted with logistical challenges being cited as the reason.”This painful decision has been arrived at due to logistical challenges that have made it impossible to travel and arrive in Albania on or before April 11, despite concerted efforts by all concerned,” the Football Kenya Federation (FKF) said.However, according to an official of the FKF who spoke to Mozzart Sport, Kenya did not enter the qualifiers due to lack of money. Nairobi City Stars take on Leopards with sealing top flight safety in mindIt is for the same reason that the Albania warm up never took place.”The money from FIFA is coming, but in bits, and it’s not enough,” the source anonymously intimated, adding that the government has also not been able to assist.”The government coffers are also dry, so there’s nothing much we can do. FIFA has advised us to only engage in activities we can afford at the moment, ” said the source.
