TOURNAMENTS | KISUMU YOUTH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION

KYFA Ladies Nationwide Tournament (2009 – 2014)

Draws upon teams from all over Kenya for a 3-day competition combined with mentorship activities. The event currently allows a total of 20 girls’ teams to register in Under-15 and Free Age categories.
While the girls get to play football, there are plenty of female empowerment activities lined up including motivational speeches, mentorship sessions, cultural exchanges and focus group discussions on HIV/AIDS, goal setting and rights of the girl child.

2014 KYFA Ladies Nationwide Tournament

KYFA organized the 6th edition of the Annual Ladies Nationwide Tournament between 24th to 27th April, 2014 in Kisumu. The 3 day event had three major objectives

Provide an annual high quality football tournament to girls and young women in Kenya.

Provide an annual positive platform for mentorship, role modeling, experiential learning and inspiration of girls and young women in Kenya.

Promoting the voice of the Girl child and enhancing their participation in the society.

To achieve the above objectives, KYFA mobilized 386 girls from 22 ladies teams to the three day event. The teams came from nine (9) different counties in Kenya. There were 10 U15 players and 12 Free age players.

KYFA hosts a tournament featuring a Dutch team in January ,2014

KYFA hosted a one day mini-tournament involving FC Union from the Netherlands, CREATA from Migori County and two teams from KYFA (Manyatta United and Real Kisumu) at Jomo Kenyatta Sportsground from
10.00am – 5.00 pm.
The matches were preceded by a brief opening ceremony graced by the County Director of Sports, Mr. Zechariah Okora. Real Kisumu wre crowned champions after beating Manyatta on points. Download a brief report on the mini tournament and FC Union Visit here

Playing for Peace event.

For the third year in 2013, KYFA as a member of the Kisumu Peace Festival was involved in promotion of peace in and around Kisumu through organized dialogue and sports.
Specifically, KYFA coordinated an interactive event whose purpose was to bring together members of the Kenya Police Service and youth from hotspots in Kisumu City, to dialogue, consult and play together and thus improve the relationship between police and the community.

The Workshop.

The workshop was interactive. Adult learning and conflict transformation facilitation methods was applied to encourage participants to express themselves without hurling insults and blames on either party.
A clearly selected case study was used to help participants discover from such episodes some of the issues, problems and possible solutions that they could apply.
The facilitation process was conducted in a way that helped participants to make informed decisions freely, without any coercion, in order to move forward and disengage from the stalemate of violent confrontations hence pursue more connecting values.

Soccer Match .

A Match between the police and the youth was a crowd puller and passed a very powerful message of possibility of the two protagonist groups cooperating to ensure peace and security. The Soccer Match was conducted as fair play. There was a warm up activity before the match followed by the explanation of the theme of the match and the process to the crowd.
After the match there was a cool down followed by a moment of reflection where the players reflected on what went on in the game. In address to the spectators, the players connected what they experienced during the match to daily life experience. The players identified negative experiences and positive ones. They resolved to apply the positive experiences in their relationship.