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An interview with MMU’s American Football players ; Hamza Mateya & Timothy Waweru.
Interviewer :What’s your name and what do you do?
My name is Hamza Mateya , 3rd year Engeering student at Multimedia and I play as a wide receiver and also the corner back for defence option For MMU’s (Multimedia university of Kenya) American football Club called Panthers
Interviewer : What is NFL? We don’t know what that is.
NFL stands for National Football League, which is usually played in the USA and parts of Europe
Interviewer: (Turning to another player) How about you? What’s your name?
Timothy : TimothyWaweru, 1st year Business & Economics student. Am the tight end and line bucker in the defence option.
Interviewer: what’s the tight end and line bucker?
Timothy :Tight end is like a wide receiver. Can receive the ball and also can protect the quarter buck.
Interviewer : So for how long have you been playing the American Football?
Hamza : I knew American Football from the movies and since it’s not been there in Kenya, I can’t say that I’ve played alot because I’ve only had like 3 sessions with JKUAT students and only one session with UON football club and that’s when we Decided to form our own club here in MMU.
Interviewer: How did your passion in American Football come in? Why didn’t you choose any other game like Volleyball, Basketball
Hamza : The passion just developed, as in, I’d play rugby before in highschool. So when I came to MMU, the rugby wasn’t well facilitated and didn’t wanna get wasted in the rugby so, I kept on exploring the other options till I came to encounter with This game.
Interviewer : For how long has American Football been in existence in Multimedia?
Hamza : American Football is one month old in MMU. (Laughs) it was introduced last month
Interviewer : When was AF introduced in Kenya
Hamza : Around 2014..started with USIU then JKUAT and the rest follows
Interviewer : how would you describe American Football to another game?
Timothy : it’s a game that encourages team work . when one person messes in a game, the whole team is fucked up.
Interviewer : Why do you play this game?
Hamza : it is for both commercial and passion purposes. It began as a passion then commercialisation came through
Interviewer : How about you Timothy? Why do you play the game?
Timothy : I play for passion.
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