Nairobi — As Kenya's soccer plunged into further crisis with the country's exclusion from the Africa Nations Championships, Sam Nyamweya - one of the protagonists in the factional wars at the Kenya Football Federation - has called for a truce to save the game from plummetting.

In a statement, Nyamweya said he was ready to meet his rival in the Fifa-backed faction, Mohammed Hatimy, to chart a way forward.

"The state of our country's soccer is disturbing. We have been having squabbles for the past four years and it is my fear that if we do not come up with a solution soon, we may miss out in the 2010 World Cup and African Nations Cup," Nyamweya said on Thursday.

Nyamweya who head a faction of KFF backed by the government said Kenyan soccer management needs a healing process so that all those claiming to be holding positions come to agree to work together.

"There is no point claiming to be running a federation when the standards of the game are collapsing. Time for change is now.

"We need a healing process to save our football and that can only be done if we sit down and come up with a lasting solution," he said.

He said that the road map to bringing sanity back to the local game is by creating a good environment for the national team, crafting a sustainable youth development programme, mending the dented relationship between KFF and key partners - the government, Caf and Fife.

"We also need to review our KFF constitution. Thereafter, we can go into elections as one body, not factions," said Nyamweya.

He said it is only when KFF is speaking with one voice that Kenya will start performing well in international competitions.

"Caf is taking advantage of our disunity to kick us out of tournaments without explanation. If we were united, there would not be such confusion," Nyamweya said.