 Soccer talent started in Kibera Slums at KEG Church in Olympic Estate. It has since then evolved into the best talent-natering academy in Kenya, currently training at Kenya Science. The academy is comprised of all types of kids and youths. According to soccer talent coach Glider Swani, who has mentored several stars now with the national team Arambi Stars like Jesse Were, David Chetche among others, the initiative is the beginning of a journey that will see his outfit contributing to growth of football nationally. Soccer talent started in 2013. My idea was to put those kids together, I nurture them, at least I improve their skills. I realise that in soccer we have to start in a tender age. When they are growing you improve their basics training. I've nurtured some players who have been in the national team, some of them are in the national team and they have been supporting me. Some of them are like Jesse Were, some of them are like Chetche, some of them are like Eddie Lovatsa, some of them are like Sad Musa. They have been there all the time when I need them and I'm happy with that. The academy, whose product Kevin Maniasi is in the Kenya under 15 team that participated in Mediterranean International Cup under 16 tournament in Spain, narrates about his experience with the junior stars. I started playing football officially when I was four years old. I love football because I enjoy playing it and it's a team sport so it involves many players and you get to interact with other people outside of the country and locally as well. It's been good getting to know other people, seeing why you can improve in your talent and also getting to interact with people and being able to represent your country most of all. So it's been a good experience. Maniasi who draws his inspiration from Kenyan captain Victor Onyama in Barcelona star Lionel Messi is a former student at Stradmo and very happy with his parents due to much needed support they have given him pursue his passion in sport, adding that from the progress of both academies and on the pitch, the future is extremely bright. Victor Onyama, like just inspired by him, he's been able to represent both his country and also play in Europe and he's also a good player. He's very disciplined as it's both on and off the pitch and he plays good football, yes, internationally, Lionel Messi. Both character and the way he's playing because, okay, I play in the same position as Lionel Messi so it's easier for me to relate to him than Cristiano Ronaldo if it's, yeah. It's been tremendous because my father was the one who enrolled me in a football club when I was four years old and both my parents come to watch my games and they also support me by helping me balance between my football and my schoolwork. With 2019 half-con around the corner and team selection proving to be a dilemma for Rambista's tactician Sebastian Mignet, Glider's called upon the Frenchman to consider one of his former products, Werri, who plays his trade in Zambia with Zesco United for plays in his final 23-months' court that will do duty in Egypt meet this year, adding his partnership with Michael Lunga Front will solve the goal-scoring problems for Kenya. Personally, the way he's performing in Zesco, I've been scoring goals and the Zesco Federation on a league has been scoring easy on form so on my side I was thinking if it can be included the national team to Egypt. I always encourage him just to keep working hard and then every coach has his philosophy so don't lose up just keep working hard. But on my side I see it's supposed to be the national team, it's supposed to go to Egypt. Personally in the country that's the best striking partner we have Zesco and Michael Lunga. Kibra has managed to produce a few players in the Kenya Premier League with only Erika Uma featuring in Europe and Aswani has attributed this capacity to various factors such as poor facilities, slam pressure and poverty. I think on my side I can say it's a lack of facility in Kibra and it's all about poverty. I think even some kids who are in poverty situation whereby they don't have boots, maybe there's no dinner, maybe there's no breakfast but we coaches in Kibra we try our best to put them together as long as even if there's poverty but we always try to support their parents, we can't ask coaches in Kibra. So I think very soon some of our players will be in KPL, others will be in Europe no problem. Started as Olympic strikers in the late 90s, a period in which some of the current Kenyan stars were very young, Olympic strikers then became Olympic talented, boosting the best young talent at the time and Aswani says better plans are in the offering with several friendlies and international competitions lined up for the academy. In Bulgaria I already have an invitation letter from them and then about the funding, parents are the ones who are going to fund our children and then about the teams who are going we have soccer talent, we have a team from Nigeria, we have a Ligindogo from Kenya and then we have a team from South Africa, those academies from South Africa like Kaiser Chiefs, the under 13s are going, we have a team from Tanzania, future stars are going. Soccer talent academy are the new 2019 under 15 champions of the second edition of Rausha Kipajikap after beating Nakuru Academy 1-0 and they also won the 2018 edition of the annual Chibkezi Cup. Last week we won in Rausha Nakuru we won under 15 and in August we are going to Bulgaria tournament soccer talent and then in December we are going to Dubai and then we go to Tanzania, Rausha.