Kenya national football team
The Kenyan national football team is the national football team of Kenya and is the local Football Association, the Kenya Football Federation, controlled.
Kenya was already five times, most recently in 2004, to qualify for the African Nations Cup, but always different in the first round. At the World Cup, the country has never participated. Although Kenya played since 1974 all qualifying rounds, but failed every time at just under most of 1998, when a 0:3 in Nigeria in the penultimate game meant the end.
The national players who are active in Europe, usually playing in the leagues of Sweden and Norway. In one of the bigger leagues so far could Dennis Oliech (FC Nantes) arrive, the currently most famous football players in the country, McDonald Mariga, who plays for Inter Milan.
The nickname of the team, "The Harambee Stars", is derived from the Swahili word " Harambee " from which roughly means, "Let us go all together on a rope ."
- 2.1 Current squad
- 2.2 Former
- 2.3 Coaches
Tournaments
World Cup
In qualifying for the World Cup in Brazil, Kenya met initially in return game to the Seychelles. Both games were won, making Kenya in the group stage met in Malawi, Nigeria and Namibia, against which the team could not prevail and after the 0-1 home defeat against Nigeria on June 5, 2013 could no longer qualify for the World Cup.
African Cup of Nations
African Nations Cup
- 2009-2014: not qualified
Ost-/Mittelafrikameisterschaft
Africa Cup
Players and coaches
Current squad
The following players were at the CECAFA Cup 2013 squad in the Kenyan national football team:
Former
- Joe Kadenge
- Joe Masinga
- Jonathan Niva
- Mike Okoth Origi
Coach
- England Ray Bachelor: 1961
- Jack England Gibbons: 1966
- Elijah Lidonde: 1967
- Federal Republic of Germany Eckhard Krautzun: 1970-74
- Jonathan Nivia: 1972
- England Ray Wood: 1975
- Peter Odera: 1978
- Stephen Yongo: 1979
- Gregory Poland Palakov: 1979
- Marshall Mulwa: 1980-83
- Federal Republic of Germany Bernard Zgoll: 1984
- Federal Republic of Germany Reinhard Fabisch: 1987, 1997, 2001 /02
- Christopher Makokha: 1988
- Mohammed Kheri: 1988-90. 1995 2005
- Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992 Vojo Gardasevic: 1996
- Nigeria Christian Chukwu: 1998
- Abdul Majid: 1998
- James Siang'a: 1999/2000
- Joe Kadenge: 2002
- Jacob Mulee: 2003 / 04, 2005 2007/ 08
- Twahir Muhiddin: 2004/ 05, 2010
- France Bernard Lama July - August 2006
- Tom Olaba: 2006
- Francis Kimanzi: 2008/ 09, 2011/12
- Germany Antoine Hey: 2009
- Zeddekiah Otieno: 2010/11
- France Henri Michel: August - December 2012
- James Nandwa: 2012/13
- Belgium needle Amrouche: 2013
Games against German -speaking teams
Against Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein, there has been no encounters.