The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Youth Affairs, Creative Economy, and Sports, Ababu Namwamba, has pointed out that his ministry is keen to include other sports in the Talanta Hela program.This comes after an outcry from sports lovers that the program was only focused on football, leaving other disciplines in the dark.The youthful CS noted that plans were underway to make the program inclusive of other sports.##NAJAVA_MECA_7765236##Namwamba noted that football was on its deathbed when he came to the office, something that he wanted to improve on.Just one month into office, Namwamba negotiated for the lifting of the FIFA ban imposed on Kenyan football.“Talanta Hela is not restricted just to football. We started with football because, when I came into the office, it had sunk the lowest. We have been able to rescue football with the lifting of the FIFA suspension, and we have brought money back to the league,” he offered.Homa Bay, Busia clinch Talanta Hela Inter-County tournament titlesHe further assured that sports like rugby were slowly being incorporated into the program, beginning with the Kenya Under-20 national team, Chipu.“The plan is to do this with the rest of the games, and we are already doing something with rugby with the workaround, Chipu. We will slowly move this to all other sports,” he averred.The CS who is still in awe of the Talanta Hela U19 football tournament, promised bigger and better tidings for other disciplines in the coming editions of the tournament.Harambee Stars forward Jonah Ayunga features in Mirren’s defeatFollowing the conclusion of the tournament, a selected team of talented players were then put in a week-long high-performance training camp in Kasarani as part of the success story of the tournament that kicked off way back in August.The dream teams are scheduled to play in next year’s Nastic Soccer Academy invitational tournament in Tarragona, Spain.The 80 players who are selected during the one-week special training camp in Nairobi are set to enjoy the trip to the North Eastern region of Spain as they endeavor to kick-start their professional football journeys.
