It began at the Synthetic turf at Lugogo where the young teenagers strode with their school shoes and innocently moved the park. In their school apparel save for a few blessed to carry extra kit, the young dreamers were flatting with their imaginations. Innocent Mbabali conceived all their mind images. “Then afterwards, we really talk as friends because for me, I really interact with them. I don’t give them a chance; like I have to make sure they are part of me like my friends, at the same time am them coaching them. Then if I do that, they begin to know me. Then we can move on, I introduce them like how to play.” Said, Innocent Mbabali – Hockey Player.

Hockey is not a lucrative sport here but the handful within are loyal to with or without. Innocent Mbabali, a former captain of the Wanainchi Hockey Club now featured for United States University Nairobi. He once wore the same cloth of dreams but now shared some of his fabric to the young ones. “17 and under 19, which is really possible because we have and we have the capability of doing that. But right now I need to do a general recall of the kids we have because we are working with different schools, then a hundred kids whom I work with every weekend.” Said, Innocent.