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Harambee Stars coach Benni McCarthy has given reasons why he is counting on the completion of Talanta Stadium to help him turn around Kenya’s football fortunes.
Harambee Stars coach Benni McCarthy has great hope for Kenyan football as the country works around the clock to improve its infrastructure.
McCarthy has been in Kenya for little over just two months and has seen a lot to be hopeful for although he is also not impressed by other things, such as the lack of a clear pathway for young talented players, to the senior national team.
“There is quite a lot of raw talent, grassroots football is not that big yet, that is where you go and find these talents and then you put in the investment side of things,” McCarthy said on CGTN.
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“Football in Kenya is a new government [Football Kenya Federation] and they are trying to change the whole structure and how things work in Kenyan football.
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“So, they have started changing grassroots football so hopefully they can change so that there can be more talent coming from schools and people coming from the rural areas also getting opportunities to play football so that there can be a pathway for them to get to where we are coaching at national level.”
Why is McCarthy Counting on Talanta Stadium?
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However, what gives McCarthy hope is that the country is improving infrastructure, specifically stadiums, with the new state-of-the-art 60,000-seater Talanta Stadium that is currently under construction one of the main things he feels will make his work easier and help elevate the standards of Kenyan football.
“The infrastructure of stadiums has to be a little bit more because you can have so may fantastic talented players but if you don’t have the right infrastructure, equipment and fields, then talents will not reach their full potential because you don’t have the best football stadiums,” he added.
“In Europe, America and South America, these players are provided with the best stadiums and training grounds and that is how their talents are exposed and they go to major teams in Europe because they have the best facilities whereas in Africa, we lack that, but hopefully, as time goes by, we start investing more.
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“Once Talanta Stadium is complete, Kenyans will have a fantastic stadium, beautiful fields to showcase their talents and it will be of great help to players and national team coaches like myself.”
Talanta Stadium is one of the venues earmarked for the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations, which Kenya will co-host alongside Uganda and Tanzania, with its completion projected to be in February 2026.
That will give McCarthy enough time to tune his players for the tournament with his contract running until 2027 and there is hope that he will make an impact at AFCON 2027.
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