Kenya – Local football clubs benefit from partnership deals

While a number of premier league clubs have signed deals with some local betting companies in Kenya, Odibets has been on another mission focusing on grassroot partnership deals with ordinary football clubs.

The betting firm’s country marketing manager Aggrey Sayi says the kits initiative which has seen ordinary football clubs acquire jerseys across the 47 counties in Kenya.

In its first year alone, Odibets has distributed over 35,000 kits with local clubs hailing the initiative as a masterstroke.

“A lot of Kenyan football teams (KPL) have deals with gaming companies similar to what we had with premier league side Mathare United last year.”

The Odibets kits initiative is a grassroot movement that seeks to connect and associate with ordinary football teams across the country as our name suggests,” Mr Sayi noted. He added, “We want to be associated with “ordinary” brands in the grassroots although we cannot rule out partnerships with bigger teams.”

Odibets has also partnered with like-minded organizations like Atotos linked to former Harambee Stars Tactician Jacob Mulee to help upcoming stars showcase their talent to Swedish football scouts. Mulee has a keen interest to help football starts at the grassroot level.

ON the status of their licence and the future of betting in Kenya, Sayi said “As Odibets we don’t want to mess with the laws of the day,” he said.

“We have seen how they can tackle you adding that their licence is validated as they continue to abide by the rules and laws set by the regulators, parliament and tax authorities.

Source: kbc.co.ke

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