Since June 2021 I serve as the Head of Sports at ACAKORO Football Academy in Nairobi, Kenya. My job consists of capacity building with local coaches, organization development and professionalization, training with children from humble backgrounds and building networks for the organization. ACAKORO is a high performing and premier academy in Eastern Africa and as such working here brings a lot of responsibilities when it comes to quality assurance in training and education of our beneficiaries.

Foxy‘s Kids Club is a concept for child friendly football training for children aged 3-7 years old. During the initial phase a illustrated children book, audio book and training guides have been developed. The philosophy centers around Foxy, the football loving fox - our mascot - and how he learns to play football together with the children.Project is currently on hold.

As an implementing partner the team from Acakoro organized the first edition of the Europe Day Kenya tournament. 64 Teams from four counties representing the diversity of Kenya (Nairobi, Marsabit, Homa Bay & Kilifi) competed for the national title. We have shared our knowledge and expertise with the Delegation of The European Union to Kenya, the respective County governments and the German Embassy to Kenya.Our team was responsible for the conceptualization, logistics and execution of… Show more As an implementing partner the team from Acakoro organized the first edition of the Europe Day Kenya tournament. 64 Teams from four counties representing the diversity of Kenya (Nairobi, Marsabit, Homa Bay & Kilifi) competed for the national title. We have shared our knowledge and expertise with the Delegation of The European Union to Kenya, the respective County governments and the German Embassy to Kenya.Our team was responsible for the conceptualization, logistics and execution of the tournament that has reached over 1.400 participants. A crucial part was stakeholder and expectation management, since our client (the EU) has a big reputation and political stakeholders have to be included. The preliminary tournaments were graced by the governors of the respective county, while the national final was attended by multiple EU member state ambassadors incl. of the Head of Delegation H.E. Henriette Geiger. Chief guest was the CS for Defence of the Republic of Kenya Hon. Aden Duale.Through agile and flexible planning our team managed to guarantee a satisfying outcome and created everlasting memories for the participating teams, especially the ones traveling hundreds of kilometers to the national final. Show less