Barding Boys High School in Siaya County did Kenya proud by ending the country’s 14-year jinx that has kept us at the periphery of the East Africa Secondary Schools football title when they beat10-man St Mary’s Kitende of Uganda 1-0 in the finals played at the Kipchoge Stadium in Eldoret.
The school, which derives its name from the dusty Barding village, was established in 1974 by a couple - Beech and Carol - who were Catholic missionaries behind St Joseph’s Catholic Church in the area in the early 1950s.