Blue Blue, Kilifi Elite topped champions at Esse Akida Foundation event

KILIFI, Kenya, Dec 30 – Defending champions Blue Blue retained their title, as Kilifi Elite received the primary ever ladies’s crown because the three-day Esse Akida Foundation event got here to an finish Sunday night on the Mkoroshoni Grounds in Kilifi County.

Blue Blue retained their crown after a tough fought 2-1 victory over Mekoan, whereas Elite received the ladies’s title with a 4-2 post-match penalty outcome over a resilient Majajani Queens.

Meanwhile, Young Atomic clinched the boys’s third place title after edging out dwelling aspect Ubuntu by a solitary objective.

In the boys’s ultimate, Blue Blue had been decided to retain the trophy and had been on high of their invoice proper from the beginning of motion. They acquired the lead early within the first half by way of Emmanuel Haro whose strike from the sting of the field beat the keeper’s arm attain.

Despite strain from Mekoan, they managed to carry on to the lead until halftime.

The holders then doubled their tally early within the second half, when Emmanuel Podo’s nicely struck freekick from the sting of the field landed into the underside left of the keeper.

It was a deserved lead for Blue, who had been offensive proper from the beginning.

However, Mekoan piled strain within the final quarter of the sport, and so they managed to drag one again by way of Samson Juma. The midfielder struck from the sting of the field after a freekick was defended proper into his path.

Despite some late strain, Blue Blue managed to protect their lead and the title.

Meanwhile within the ladies’ ultimate, Kilifi Elite had been pushed to the sting by a youthful Majajani, and needed to depend on their expertise in penalties to win 4-3 after a 0-0 attract regulation time.

Josephine Kitsao, Alvine Lhalenya, Florida Bokole and Salama Mariga scored for Elite.

Esther Pendo, Monika Muangana and Zeinab Kadzo scored for Majajani, whereas Asma Taura and Hawa Nazi noticed their efforts sail simply vast.

Taura, 12, the youngest participant within the event, was awarded as the perfect upcoming participant whereas Bokole received the ladies’s MVP award.

Mekoan’s Juma was named the boys’s MVP.

Winners of the event walked dwelling with Sh30,000 whereas the shedding finalists received Sh20,000, and the third positioned crew Sh15,000 courtesy of the Esse Akida Foundation.

All 5 ladies’ groups which participated within the event had been gifted with sanitary towels and sports activities interior clothes by Wecheza.