Pre-season Friendly
- Gor Mahia (Kenya) Vs Everton (England) – National Stadium, Dar es Salaam @ 5pm
Former Manchester United Captain Wayne Rooney and his new Everton FC teammates safely arrived in Dar es Salaam ahead of their pre-season friendly with Kenya’s Gor Mahia.
The Kenyan record league winners earned a right to face the English Premiership side after winning the SportPesa sponsored tournament closed to a month ago held in Tanzania.
The two teams face off on Thursday at the National stadium, Dar es Salaam and Leighton Baines he hopes the fans in Tanzania turn out and enjoy the game.
“We will train tonight and we are looking forward to the game tomorrow,” Baines said on arrival.
But it’s mostly about fitness at this point as we’ve only been back just over a week. It will be a good exercise for us and hopefully the local fans will turn out and enjoy it.
Meanwhile, the team was welcomed by Tanzanian Minister of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports; Dr. Harrison Mwakyembe.
Uganda Cranes International Godfrey Walusimbi is in the Gor Mahia squad to face Rooney and company.
The Everton Squad in Tanzania
Maarten Stekelenburg, Mateusz Hewelt, Chris Renshaw, Tom Davies, Phil Jagielka, Ashley Williams, Callum Connolly, Jonjoe Kenny, Michael Keane, Muhamed Besic, Leighton Baines, Morgan Schneiderlin, James McCarthy, Davy Klaassen, Gareth Barry, Idrissa Gana Gueye, Joe Williams, Kieran Dowell, Kevin Mirallas, Wayne Rooney, Aaron Lennon, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Ademola Lookman, Matthew Pennington and Yannick Bolasie .
