Top teams will face off at the Rift Valley Chapa Dimba Na Safaricom football tournament at Eldoret Showground over the weekend.
Both Tumkas and Itigo are the North Rift champions after edging out Chemase Boys and Kaptagat Girls respectively at the finals played at Moi Primary school, Marula.
Tumkas will be battle South Rift’s White Rhinos in the first semifinal while Itigo will play will play Bomet Queens in the opener.
The Chapa Dimba Regional Cordinator Evans Omondi said the teams are ready and we are set for the weekend. We have had competitive games with a crop of new teams coming into the limelight.
“We expect very entertaining football over the weekend and hope the regional winners will again emerge champions in the national finals like last year,” said Omondi.
Regional winners will receive a cash reward of KES 200,000 each and join Bishop Njenga Girls and Lugari Blue Saints from Western, Manyatta Boys and Ndhiwa Queens from Nyanza as well as Super Solico and St Mary’s Ndovea from Eastern for the national finals.
The runners-up will also pocket KES 100,000 each among other individual prizes. The competition aims at scouting for youth talent, developing grassroots football, and ultimately propel gifted players to the national team.
In the second semifinal Solidarity Boys from North West Rift play Al Ahly of Central Rift in boys while Nakuru West Queens tackle Kitale Queens in the second semifinal.
Chapa Dimba Na
Safaricom semifinals
Boys
- White Rhinos vs Tumkas Youth
- Solidarity Boys vs Al Ahly
Girls
- Itigo girls vs Bomet Queens
- Nakuru West Queens vs Kitale Queens