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Harambee Stars players at a previous match. [File, Standard]

There is a question that should keep every sports administrator, county governor, and football romantic awake at night, not with dread, but with possibility.

If Kenya can produce world-beaters in athletics, if our runners have conquered every road and track from Boston to Berlin, why has our football never truly left the estate?

Yet our football, played on every patch of flat ground from Moyale to Mombasa, has never once made the world stop and stare. Athletics did not find talent in some hidden valley. It built a system, and the talent came flooding in. Iten became a name the world knew because of intention, not geography. Football is still waiting for that moment of decision.