NKTEST! Here Are The Most Annoying Behaviours Of Kenyan Footballers

Piece by: Caren Nyota
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Football is one of the most supported sport locally followed by rugby. Whenever there is a Harambee Stars match or any league match ongoing, fans will always flock the stadium just to cheer their favourite players and even have a closer glimpse of them. If you ply your trade overseas, you will be the centre of attention as everyone wants to be near you and maybe take a photo.

But of late, Harambee Stars players are slowing losing the huge fanbase they used to enjoy. Nowadays, most of them no longer play for the badge - emblazoned in front of the shirt - but, for the name at the back of the shirt. Kenyan football has been commercialised; most of those called to the national team only play for money and fame. After all their performance yesterday proves this point. Harambee Stars lost 0-1 to visiting Guinea-Bissau hence being kicked out of the 2017 AFCON competition.

We expected the boys to make us proud but luck was not on our side. The last time Harambee Stars scored a hat trick was back in 1997, and it was none other than Mike Okoth, the father to Divock Origi who scored.

Who will reclaim Harambee Stars lost glory?

Well, I have been observing Harambee Stars players for quite sometime and below are some of their most annoying behaviours.

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  1. They "concentrate" more on fashion than football

From fake snapbacks to bland looking sweatpants, Harambee Stars will rock anything in the name of fashion not forgetting their mitumba converse shoes, rugged jeans and faded t-shirts. Most of them always look like paintings in the multicoloured outfits. Whenever they are travelling for an international assignment, you will never miss seeing them rocking sweat pants; which leave some of them looking like scarecrows. Not forgetting their choice of t-shirts which has half naked women drawn in front and, of course, snapbacks; what they call "Looks." One can easily confuse them for Fally Ipupa's dancers ready to entertain revellers at a Koroga Festival.

2. Taking selfies with lame hashtags

Most of them seem to have gone for photography classes. Anywhere they go, they will always exhibit Kenyans peculiar behaviour of taking selfies everywhere even in the washrooms. For instance, when they are travelling for an international assignment, they will flood our timelines with photos accompanied by lame hashtags, which at times, don't even make sense. Why can't you convert those selfies to goals?

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3. Posting half naked photos

Dear Kenyan players, you are a brand and please hold yourself in high regard as one. Stop posting half naked pictures showing off your six pack or your "goodies" in some cheap or torn boxers. No corporate will give you a job to be their brand ambassador nor appear on their billboards unless you want to model for the porn industry. Try and be professional! And just to remind you; "No Kenyan woman will choose a six pack over six cars" ~ Kenyan proverb.

4. Flaunting alcohol on social media

Kila kitu ni Vanity! So please, stop behaving like you are the first one to buy a mzinga of Hennessy! Save that cash and help kids from the under 19 teams. Most of Kenyan footballers waste their money on worldly glories; spend moolah like there is no tomorrow forgetting that they are role models and are supposed to lead by a good example.

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5. Hanging out with groupies

Most of the local footballers are known to be spendthrifts. Despite them earning peanuts, they will spend it on ladies and alcohol and once they retire or hang their boots, they have nothing to show for their years in the field. Isitoshe, they cannot afford to spend a penny, hence the groupies run away. They always frequent local entertainment joints especially the now popular "reggae-playing-clubs" where some of them are regular patrons like the Vasco Da Gama Pillar. For example, when you visit the popular Lang'ata based club, you will find most of them even the married ones hanging out in the company of wannabe socialites who moonlight as groupies sipping on some cheap alcohol while their families sleep on empty stomachs.

Please, read this carefully and change if possible, were are tired of your bad habits!