Kenya national team, Harambee Stars will on Tuesday evening leave Paris for Cairo, Egypt where the team will take part in the African Cup of nations that kicks off on Friday.
Stars will be making a comeback to the continental scene after a 15-year absence. The team last featured in the showpiece in 2004 when the biannual tournament was staged in Tunisia. Stars lost two and won one of their three group matches and in the process were bundled out of the tournament.
The team was earlier expected to depart France on Wednesday but there has been a change of plans and the team will not exit Paris at 5pm East African time as confirmed by Football Kenya Federation through a statement posted on its official website.
FKF statement.
Kenya National Team, Harambe Stars, is set to board at 5 pm EAT in Paris for Cairo, Egypt, on Tuesday, June 18, ahead of the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations set to kick off on June 21, 2019. This comes after the team wound up a 19-day residential training on Monday ahead of their departure on Tuesday. Stars played two friendly matches, winning 1-0 against Madagascar in Paris and sharing the spoils with the DRC in Madrid
The team is expected in Egypt on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, at 9 pm EAT and will camp in Cairo ahead of the tournament’s kickoff. Kenya has been pooled in Group C alongside Algeria, Senegal, and Tanzania.
Stars’ first match will be against Algeria on June 23. Tanzania will be up next on June 27, before Kenya winds up her group stage matches against Senegal on July 1, 2019.
Harambee Stars 23-man squad
Goalkeepers
Patrick Matasi, John Oyemba, Faruk Shikalo
Defenders
Philemon Otieno, Abud Omar, Bernard Ochieng, Musa Mohammed, Joash Onyango, Joseph Okumu, David Owino, Eric Ouma
Midfielders
Victor Wanyama, Dennis Odhiambo, Erick Johanna, Ayub Timbe, Francis Kahata, Ismael Gonzalez, Ovella Ochieng, Paul Were, Johanna Omollo
Forwards
Masud Juma, Michael Olunga, John Avire