Number 10 · The national game
Mary Kinuthia
MID · Retired · Kenya · 2010–2019
Captain and organiser of the 2016 side
45
Total score of 80
11
League strength (25)
12
Prestige (20)
9
Titles won (20)
13
Impact (15)
The 2016 side
She captained the Harambee Starlets and was one of the central figures of the team that qualified for and played at the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations in Cameroon.
CECAFA
The same generation reached the 2016 CECAFA Women's Championship final and won the title in 2019.
Why she is here
The women who held that dressing room together are the reason there is a professional generation at all — they proved the team could qualify before anyone was willing to fund it.
Honours and milestones
- 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations
- CECAFA Women's Championship final, 2016
Career record
Kenyan Women's Premier League clubs, Harambee Starlets
Did you know
The team that qualified before anybody funded it
She captained the Starlets at the 2016 Africa Women Cup of Nations, Kenya's first, and was part of the side that reached the CECAFA final that year. Every professional contract a Kenyan woman has signed since sits on the back of that campaign, played without a professional league, a training base or a budget worth the name.
2016
Kenya's first Africa Women Cup of Nations
Final
The CECAFA Championship that year
Captain
Of the side that broke through