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How Kenya must learn from Nigeria and Ivory Coast for youth development - Omollo

The coach believes Harambee Stars have been undone by their poor junior structures and should look west for guidance

Kenya can learn from Nigeria and Ivory Coast in as far as youth development is concerned, former Harambee Stars defender Sammy Omollo has said.

Omollo retired from international football in the late 1990s and said the two West African Nations have sound structures in which their players gel together for a very long time when young before graduating to the national team.

“Ivory Coast and Nigeria have always produced the majority of its national players from their youth system.