Rising Stars Coach Salim Babu Shares Why Morocco Camp Will Prepare Kenya For AFCON U20 Success in Egypt

Kenya U20 coach Salim Babu is counting on his team’s upcoming camp in Morocco to prepare them better for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.

Rising Stars have were handed a tough draw that sees them pooled with Nigeria, Morocco and Tunisia for the tournament that will take place in Egypt from April 27.

Babu revealed his 25-man squad on Wednesday, with the team composed of some of the most talented youngsters in the country, as well as foreign-born players that have been brought in to shore up the side.

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The team will begin a 10-day camp in Morocco on Friday April 18 and Babu feels the North African country offers them the best possible preparations as the conditions are the same as what they will experience in Egypt.

“Morocco has similar weather to Egypt and training there will be key for us to acclimatise and get used to the conditions in North Africa,” Babu told Telecomasia.net.

“It will also be a good time for us to address the finer details of our preparations. We will get two or three friendly matches with teams of our age-group and possibly some heading to the AFCON as well and so it will give us a very good picture of where we are in terms of readiness for the competition.”

Kenya will kick off their AFCON campaign on May 1 against Nigeria before a clash with Tunisia three days later and will end their group stage campaign against Morocco on May 7.