2026 Fifa World Cup draw stirs up infectious football fever
Former Brazil player Dunga lifts the World Cup trophy alongside former US player Marcelo Balboa, former Canada player Atiba Hutchinson and former Mexico player Luis Hernandez ahead of the World Cup draw at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington on December 3, 2025.
Harambee Stars, 53 years and counting, have continued to bite the dust in their perennial campaign to reach the promised land.
Remarkably, Curacao, with a population of only 150,000, becomes the smallest nation to qualify for the World Cup.
Successive Kenya Football Federation presidents have seduced Harambee Stars fans' emotions to feverish levels with promises of qualifying the country for the World Cup.
Corporate mogul Maina Kariuki at the turn of the century, proven football administrator Alfred Sambu after him, litigious Sam Nyamwea, and, more recently, loquacious Nick Mwendwa, all promised, with infectious enthusiasm, to take Harambee Stars to football’s nirvana
