Kenya national men’s volleyball team coach Gideon Tarus has named a strong team that is jetting out today for Cairo, Egypt where they seek a qualification berth to the All African Games scheduled for Ghana in March this year.

Six players from the General Service Unit made the cut into the final travelling squad.The team unveiled by coach Tarus includes dependable setter Brian Melly of GSU and Kelvin Kelvin Kipkosgei of the Kenya Volleyball Federation men’s champions Kenya Prisons.

Brilliant Elphas Makuto who was named the most valuable player during the last year’s play offs also got a nod from the technical bench to do duty for Kenya away from home. Makuto was instrumental in the play offs as he led his side Kenya Prisons to stop GSU’s six-year dominance to reclaim the national title for the first time since 2016.

Coach Tarus is full of optimism of registering desired results in the Egyptian capital to seal a place in the Accra games.

“We have trained well and every player is in top shape and ready to defend the flag of our great country. We just have one objective and that is to qualify for the All African Games in Accra, Ghana.”

By the time of going to the Press, only three men’s teams namely Burundi, Kenya and host Egypt had confirmed participation in the Zone 5 qualifiers that serves off from March 26 to March 28.

Only two teams will make it to the 13th edition of the postponed continental sports extravaganza that is scheduled to run from March 8 to March 23 in the West African nation.

Kenya’s Wafalme had failed to sparkle in the previous editions of the All African Games with the recent notable success being a third place finish in the 2011 Maputo Games.

Kenya Volleyball Federation President Charles Nyaberi will be the head of Delegation for the Egypt trip while his deputy Paul Bitok will serve as the Technical Coordinator.