Kenya's Deputy President, William Ruto, expressed his overwhelming joy after witnessing history being made during this week's European champions league semi-final matches.
Liverpool's heroic match winner on Tuesday night, Divock Origi, despite pledging his international career to Belgium, is as Kenyan as they come, and his father, Mike Okoth, once captained the Kenyan National team, Harambee Stars.
On the other hand, Tottenham hotspur's mercurial midfielder, Victor Wanyama, also made history as he joined his elder brother McDonald Mariga as the only Kenyans to have ever graced the final of the biggest club football competition in the world.
"With the teams facing improbable tasks of reaching the finals, the lads, especially Origi, displayed fierce competitiveness and devastating finishing to complete an epic turnaround and crown victory," the excited Ruto tweeted.
DP Ruto went on to congratulate the two players adding that he was looking forward to the final set to be held at the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium in Madrid, Spain, scheduled for June 1, 2019.
"Congratulations to Victor Wanyama and Divock Origi for playing starring roles for Spurs and Liverpool respectively in a successful champions league campaign and all the best in the Madrid showpiece," Ruto tweeted.
Coincidentally, the two players' roots can be traced back to two of the fiercest rival teams in Kenyan football, Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards, and Kenyans were quick to point out that the Madrid final would be the global version of the Mashemeji derby.
Netizens were also quick to point out that Origi was one of our own jokingly adding that Origi should be given a Huduma Namba.
The final showpiece has been dubbed by the proud nation as an all Kenyan affair, with the fact that it will go down on a day in which the country celebrates its independence day making it even more captivating.
Origi and Wanyama were both involved in the most exciting comebacks in champions league history after overcoming seemingly insurmountable odds to make it to the finals.
