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The National Women's Football Team "Harambee Starlets" will seek to extend its dominance against its Ugandan neighbors in their first match of the Confederation of Central and East African Football Associations Confederation (Cecafa) which begins today in Kigali, Rwanda. The match scheduled at 14:00 will open the event a week, the hosts of Rwanda aligning on the champions of Tanzania in the second game of the day at 16:15
The shock of 39. Today will be the third meeting between the two teams this year with Starlets having won the last two games.
The team led by David Ouma dominated the Crested Cranes in the two-legged African Nations Cup qualifiers with Vihiga defender Queens Lilian Adera, who scored the lone goal at Kenyatta Stadium, Machakos, in April.
Later, they played in a draw in Uganda in the return leg with Kenya in the final stage, where they were eliminated by Equatorial Guinea, failing to make their second appearance at the African manna after their debut in 2016 in Cameroon.
Kenya is hoping to start this year's campaign by finishing second in the last edition played in Uganda.
The Starlettes are aware that any blunder will deny them another chance of glory as the event will be played in round robin play. Crested Cranes traveled by road Monday and held a light training at Mumena Stadium before performing their last training at Kigali Stadium from the event yesterday. Their head coach Faridah Bulega remains optimistic before the championship.
"We met so many times with Kenya and they always had one last laugh, we have now reached the age of majority and we are ready to give the best of themselves and we hope that this time we will turn the tables for them, "Bulega said, Kenyans are going to take a break today, but they will be back on Saturday to face the champions of Ethiopia will face Uganda
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