President Uhuru Kenyatta [Photo/eDaily]
President Uhuru Kenyatta has congratulated the national team Harambee Stars for clinching the title of the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.Through a post match tweet, President Kenyatta congratulated Put's boys for the good play from the preliminaries to the finals in which they floored Zanzibar."On behalf of an adoring and grateful Nation and my Government, I congratulate our national team, Harambee Stars, for playing valiantly right from the preliminaries to the finals and emerging the CECAFA champions. Hongera, you have done us proud," President Kenyatta tweeted on Sunday.Kenya emerged the 2017 CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup champions after beating Zanzibar side 3-2 after post match penalty shootouts.Stars and Zanzibar tied 2-2 at extra time after which they had to go for penalty shootouts.Harambee Stars goalkeeper Patrick Matasi became the man of the match after saving three penalties which rendered Kenya the winner of the Cecafa Senior Challenge cap 2017. "This was team work as our coach had given us the morale. My coach told me to concentrate with the ball and not jump around," Matasi said after the match was over.Kenya last won the trophy in 2013 after edging out Sudan 2-0 in Nairobi.