Tuesday, 4 August 2015
The Team From passenga That made Nyandarua Proud
"Hayawi hayawi huwa am pround God has made #teampassenga i love ao i spend tym dere playing soccer. Aky thanx 2 God 4 wat u have do to passenga i wish ngekua mress nichopie uko tena, salute,#likoko,#jymo,#jonte,#kassim,#veve,#nyati,#leshaa,#wembe,#obi,#patrick,#kangi congrat wasee igwe!!!igwe!!!igwe!!!" Amos Nderitu, former student.
Nyandarua County reverberated into song and dance after one of its secondary schools won football title to represent Kenya in the East-African tournament scheduled to take place in Kigali, Rwanda next week.
Passenga Secondary School in Ol’Kalou sub-county (Aberdare region) beat Metropolitan’s region’s Laiser Hill 1-0 in hard fought boys’ final in Machakos County last Saturday.
John Avire’s sixth minute strike settled the pulsating final as Passenga made history by becoming the first school from Aberdare region to win boys’ national football title since the games started 45 years ago.
Passenga who had eliminated Lake Region’s Kisumu Day 4-3 on post-match penalties in the semi-finals, avenged their 2-1 loss to Laiser Hill in the preliminaries.