#12
Midfielder
David Kenga
Club
Charleston Battery
League
USL First Division
Region
USA
Signed
2008
Estimated peak value · 2008
$80,000 / KSh 5.5m
Estimated, not a transfer fee — our own valuation of his best season with Charleston Battery in the USL, at KSh 69 to the dollar.
Profile
The United States — college to contract
A midfielder who went to the United States in 2003 on a scholarship at Winthrop University and came up through the amateur PDL with the Indiana Invaders and SC United Bantams.
Charleston Battery
He signed for the Battery in the USL First Division in April 2008, made his professional debut two days later, and finished the season with 17 appearances and a goal from 34 senior games.
Kenya, and giving it back
He was capped by Kenya in 2011, graduated with a degree in biochemistry, and turned the whole route back on itself by coaching in South Carolina and founding the Fuhaha Academy in his native Kilifi.
Cup and continental record
Lamar Hunt US Open Cup football with the Charleston Battery in 2008, and the USL post-season with them, after two seasons of NCAA tournament football at Winthrop University.
Managers he played under
Mike Anhaeuser, the Charleston Battery's long-serving coach, signed him and gave him his professional debut in 2008.
After football
Founder, Elite Soccer Training Company and the Fuhaha Youth Soccer Academy
After a playing career that took in the Charleston Battery, the Indiana Invaders and a Kenya cap in 2011, he moved into coaching and business in South Carolina, founding the Elite Soccer Training Company in 2016 and serving as a head coach at SC United. He holds a youth A licence. In Kilifi, the county he comes from, he set up the Fuhaha Youth Soccer Academy to give young people an alternative to drugs, and his outreach work has extended to building a soccer complex in Kaloleni.
Did you know
He turned an American scholarship into a professional contract — then built an academy back home
Kenga went to the United States in 2003 to play college football at Winthrop University, came up through the amateur PDL, and signed for the Charleston Battery in the USL First Division in April 2008, making his debut two days later. He graduated with a degree in biochemistry, was capped by Kenya in 2011, and then put the whole route back into the country he came from by founding the Fuhaha Academy in Kilifi.
2008
Signed by Charleston Battery in the USL
17
Appearances in his professional season
1
Academy founded in Kilifi
Did you know
Joint top of the whole of American college soccer for assists
Three seasons at Winthrop from 2004 to 2006 brought 58 games, 13 goals and 21 assists, a Big South Conference championship in 2006, and a season in which his fourteen assists were tied for the most of any player in the United States. The professional career that followed took in the Indiana Invaders, the Charleston Battery and SC United Bantams, with a Kenya cap in 2011.
14
Assists — joint most in the USA, 2006
58
College games for Winthrop
2006
The Big South championship
Did you know
He went home in his final year of college and built the answer to what he saw
On a visit home in his last year at Winthrop he found friends he had grown up with lost to drink and drugs. The Fuhaha Youth Soccer Academy in Kilifi came out of that, and later a soccer complex in his village and development work in Kaloleni. In the United States he founded the Elite Soccer Training Company in 2016 in Columbia, South Carolina, and in 2019 added a non-profit that donates equipment to schools so cost cannot decide who plays. He holds a youth A licence and helps Kenyan players find American scholarships.
2016
Elite Soccer Training Company founded
2019
The equipment-donation non-profit added
Kilifi
Home of the Fuhaha academy
Career record
Midfielder who moved to the United States in 2003 to attend Winthrop University and made 17 appearances with one goal for Charleston Battery in 2008. One Kenya cap, against DR Congo in January 2011.
Career appearances and goals reconciled against Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kenga)
34
Appearances
1
Goals
0
Assists
1
Caps
0
Int'l goals
AI score breakdown
| Criterion | Score | Max |
|---|---|---|
| League Strength | 18 | 25 |
| Club Prestige | 10 | 20 |
| Titles Won (weighted) | 7.6 | 20 |
| Impact | 10 | 15 |
| Total | 45.6 | 80 |
Either side of him in the ranking
Ahead of him · Number 11
Behind him · Number 13