 Na kumatev siri na mtumont Kenya United under the ownership of a politician and people thought that things would change at the helm but still there is that complain of unpaid allowance and salaries from the playing unit. I think they picked their first point last weekend against Sharks and that was quite a surprise. This particular, we came today and talking of Viga United, they got beaten by TASCA last weekend. What's your expectation? Do you think it will be a walk in the park for Viga United against Mount Kenya United? I think considering that Mount Kenya haven't got a win yet if I'm not wrong in the season, it could be a tough match for Viga. Futbol, nama na Kenya, but worldwide is a very expensive venture. And some of these guys that come in, you know, you look at it from the outside, it looks very green, the grass looks very green and it looks easy. You look at the wage bill and you see this is manageable, but then you start looking at the niti grittis. You know, everyday training, the preparation. Do they need lunch? Do they need double sessions? Do the players need fare to go to where they are going to? Do we have sick players? Do they need medical attention? Which needs to be paid when you start looking at these logistics. Then you realize that it's not as easy as it might have looked before you got there. So these are some of the things I think that this club is struggling with because, you know, in this day and age and after all these years that players have been complaining about their welfare and, you know, not being paid and all these things not being taken care of, you would expect someone who comes into the playing field knows exactly what needs to be done for the players' welfare and to get the clubs to where they need to be. So they are struggling with that, yes, but when you get to the 90 minutes, I think it's going to be a very tough match for Vihiga United, not a walk in the park, but definitely not an easy match for Mount Kenyan United. Another former club of yours FC Leopard is playing, so here a football club, so here has been the Kenyan version of Southampton always getting raided, they are technical b**** getting, you know, tell them, Barnard Malala left for Bandara and has been doing spectacularly good at the docas, but he also left with some key players and Gurmaa Football Club last season raided them and signed several of the influential players. Do you think that has been such a setback to their title beat especially after getting promoted to top flight last season and they are playing FC Leopard which is also getting into the style after recording three maximum points last weekend against Rangers? Fonzoya, I think the way the team is set up, they are not set up so that they can win the Kenyan Premier League and I think they are doing a good job bringing through the talent and developing it and actually exposing it so that these players get better clubs in terms of payment, in terms of exposure. So when you go to play for Gurmaa here you are almost certain of playing in the continental competitions number one, number two, possibly getting into the Kenyan national team. So I think they are doing a good job even with losing off their players they don't seem to be risking relegation like the other teams, some of the other clubs have done. So I watched Fonzoya play against Matare United, they have a good team, they lost a lot of chances in there. I think that was their first to second match in the Kenyan Premier League, they lost a lot of chances, they have very good players. One thing that I like about Fonzoya is that they bring young players through. So in this match they had a player who was 18 years old. We had a player who had played for the Kenyan U20 team he was only 19 and this was his first season in the Kenyan Premier League. So when you bring through young players who have great ability and the talent I don't see a chance for you going wrong especially when you show them that you have belief and faith in them. And Matare United just like we spoke earlier playing against Gurumia Football Club and up he'll task for Francis Kimans his charges and Dennis Oliec likely to feature. I know these are fixer that everyone is looking forward and probably with the comeback of Oliec on board a lot of fans attend and expected the place will be crowded. Do you think the Slambos will get frightened by the signature of Oliec and even is present on the pitch as well? It's an exciting moment definitely there'll be some nervousness at the beginning it's normal but I think the boys have played together long enough to know how to handle themselves even when they face such a player and I look back when I played for Matare United back then most of the guys had not played in the Kenyan Premier League in the international matches but then we got to the Kenyan Premier League and played teams like Mumias who had seasoned players we played Gormaia who had seasoned players Taska with Ndege being one of the younger guys but they had players like Abubakar Yusuf John Lichuku they were very seasoned but none of us was afraid because you were prepared well we had worked together we had worked the journey together so when you get to such matches I think Matare United players they have been prepared well to face a player like Dennis it's just one they don't have 11 Dennis so it shouldn't be a problem for Matare United Harold Chemilil Sugar playing western steamer tomorrow I think those are one of that is one of the fixtures later for tomorrow Chemilil against western steamer western steamers we speak right now they have been in good form since getting promoted top flight sitting second 18 team log with 10 points and Chemililil Sugar has not been doing quite good despite being one of those experienced teams in top flight do you think steamer can continue with its good form against Chemililil especially now that they are playing at home of course they can because I happened to be in Kisumu when steamer played Taska football club and I could say in the beginning when they were starting the season for me I wasn't as that confident as I am with them right now because I didn't believe in the signings that they had but that much against Taska convinced me that there is something western steamer has that most of the other teams don't have they have unknown players and it's difficult to prepare against a team whose players you don't know at the time we go into a march we go into preparation knowing that Simon Mulama is going to be the midfield kingpin this is how he plays this is how he controls the ball in the second half he fizzles out because he maybe doesn't have enough energy it is easier to prepare against teams that they have interviews than you know but steamer has that niche of players who are unknown and it's going to be very difficult for the likes of Chemililil to prepare against them and that's when they come up with surprises they come up with the results that people do not expect like the fixture they had with Taska so I believe as they go into this fixture and having even won against the likes of Taska they will be having a lot of confidence the enthusiasm within the dressing room will be so high so I believe with that confidence going into that march I believe they expect to get a result if not a win Bandar is started on a high after beating Goma football club at the Mbaraki tomorrow afternoon they are playing Sony Sugar Sony as we speak sitting 4th while Bandari 2 places below on 6 Bernard Molala has been quite a revelation since he joined the Dawkas from Zoya football club what do you make of that particular tie I think looking at what Bernard Molala has achieved before and looking at where he is heading he is one of the few coaches have seen who are willing to take that risk and he has been tipped as one man probably should take charge of one of the national team even if it's under 20 I believe he is in the right direction but the problem I think we have in Kenyan football is we start we start giving individuals a lot of praise before to the benchmark which for me I believe it's very risky he has performed well he has performed very well we count eggs before they are hatched let me tell you something one of the few coaches William Molul and Bernard Molala they are in the right direction they are taking a lot of risks to the young individuals they are doing their own thing they are not recycling players they are doing something different from the rest of the coachings that will not give it up to them we are talking about the national team and yet the coaches we are talking about have not won any championship or they do not have the experience of coaching at the continental level it's going to be you are putting somebody into a lion's den then when he is slaughtered you start complaining again I think that time will come when the likes of Bernard Molala and William Molulia will be able to take the national team Okumi was not ready and his time will come what we need to do having seen the likes of Molala and William Molulia doing something good what are we doing now to get them to the right platform to get them to have the right mentality to get them to start winning titles for them to be ready for the national team what are we doing about it from the federation point of view or from the club point of view what are we doing about it because we have already seen they have potential are we assisting them are we giving them the right infrastructure for them to succeed are we giving them the right impeters for them to succeed moving forward tomorrow I think he has already prepared the team well he had a very good pre-season they went to Zanzibar you can see his mindset he takes the team away from the normal environment they are used to so that they can be able to concentrate during the pre-season and I can guarantee you Bandari is one of the title contenders for me title contenders going into this much for me I think they will win I don't think it's going to be a very big problem Bandari and Sony Sugar Sony Sugar have lots of problems on their backyard Bandari don't so I expect the players at Bandari regardless of the situation to turn up and win because everything their welfare is sorted out playing for Bandari you have all those allowances you have your salary, you have your medical you have everything sorted out for you I think I will be the devil's advocate and say based on what the coach achieved the second part of the season last year or last season coming into this season he has a lot of pressure at Bandari and to look at him he is only won twice and I think he has tied three matches he hasn't lost yet but he is not even the top four and this is a spot where everyone expected him to be in this time of the league five matches you finish with great momentum you go in, you start winning your matches first five, ten matches top three, top four and he is not there he is not winning much out of five his own twice it is a problem and it could be a lot of pressure for him which will then translate to pressure to the players because he will now start demanding more if you lose a chance then it's a problem when he came in there was a lot of freshness and you could lose a chance and he would clap and tell you it's alright it's not going to be happening this time around because now teams are in front of them Mathare United is up there Western Steamer just came the other day despite the fact that they have been in the league long enough and they are above them so I think because of this pressure to perform and replicate the same results like last year is going to cost Bandari this season and talking about coaching in such a risking decision Simon Pamzo Omolo was fired from poster rangers after a string of poor results and George Maena has taken charge in acting capacity to be assisted by FOMA long-serving international and I think one of their players Pascal they are playing kakamega homeboys this particular afternoon tomorrow afternoon and talking of homeboys it's a team that brags of all season and experienced players in the name of Alan Wanga and Moses Mudabati new signing the always there several of them having been a task FC do you think the woos of even the person who's taken over from Sami Omolo might continue tomorrow possibly and you know the exit of Pamzo you know everyone who's in the football cycles knows once technical director is brought into your team you know that's a message to the head coach you know and so it was not surprising that he left Pamzo was asked to step aside or was fired going into this match I think those are some of the things that they will be struggling with you know who's next now is it the players, is it the coaches if we don't win this match are we next on the firing line because once a coach is sent away because of performance trust me if you come next you are going to be judged by that if you start performing if you do not perform then the consequences consequences are the same playing against a team that has been together long enough I think it's one of the teams that has also signed a lot of players they've signed 13 three of them renewing their contracts including Moses Mudavadi and then all others new signings when I looked at their performance against FC Leopards in Buhungu Leopards that wasn't so good but also had not changed the starting line up so much we still had the Nabui Reyes and everyone in there I think it's going to be a very tough match for poster rangers they lost a coach, there's a big transition some of the players are struggling because of non-payment and no motivation in the team there's a lot of inside politics that go around the results that poster are posting today so if they put their heads together early enough they might be able to secure at least a point but if some of these things have not have been taken care of the fate is the same a lot of problems around the results that poster are posting today that is Simon Seve-Mulama for him but as we wind up on K-Premia review Harold the last clash probably we'll see Wulindi starts the military side playing again a zoo zoo since the patted ways I don't know whether they were raided to release Michael Madoia 2017 overall KPL of the year has it been such a problem for them in ways with him and Wulindi starts on the other side also struggling despite having been at him that boasted of positive results before I think every football club will never want to lose its best player you will always allow a player to live but deep inside your heart you do not want that kind particular player to live but eventually if a player decided he wants to live you don't have to let him go what you need to do as a football club and I think that is what zoo are doing is to try and find somebody else whom you can replace into that particular position losing the likes of Kip Kirui and Madoia it's not that easy there are contracts who are almost expiring by the time they were being released so there was no need of holding up because they wanted to live but I believe moving forward it also depends on the policy of the club I believe one of the principles of zoo FC is to nacha young talent and maybe release that particular talent so if the likes of Madoia have left if the likes of Kip Kirui have left the only thing that zoo can do is to find players who they can replace and fit into those particular positions and looking at the way they have started this season they have started much better than the way they have started in the previous two seasons so I believe there is something good going on for them and as they face Ulinzi this season Ulinzi also has been 50-50 you don't know whether they are title challengers you don't know if they are going to be a meat table team the results they are posting they are not that no consistency there is no consistency they are not that confidence the Ulinzi we know about is not the Ulinzi we are seeing at this particular moment but I believe as we start this season it is still too early to be judging most of these clubs some of them will be posting good performances some of them will not maybe because of a variety of reasons the fitness levels are not they are at the consistency is not there the camaraderie within the squad is also not there so it is too early but for that particular fixture for me I think both sides will fight for the points they will go at each other we all know Ulinzi is a physical side and we also know they might have young players but they can also apply the physicality into the game going to the match for me maybe a draw for me I don't think it's going to elicit a lot of fire power in front of goal and for that reason maybe another aspect in Kenyan football that yesterday elicited heated debate in one of the sports journalistic forums the introduction of banters in Kenyan football we've seen several clubs tweeting those tweets are sort of psychological and trying to attack the opponent Mother United for example tweeted and tagged former Gorma Dilan Kaa telling him whether he talked to his successor Hassan Okte with regards to what is supposed to expect at the slambos when the two teams lock horns tomorrow and I don't know whether the twitter handlers of these local clubs are emulating on what the foreign clubs are doing especially Borussia Dortmund and AC Roma are very good at bantering on twitter what's the impact of this is it for the positive of the game or it's a little bit pedestrian it depends all the purpose of social media in a football club if you start by that definition then maybe you'll be able to understand that football clubs need to have social media pages and to have the right content in these social media pages I will give a natural example as you are walking around the streets in town you will find commodities being displayed on windows a social media page of a football club is like a display it's like you are doing window shopping when you see something attractive on the other side of the window you'll be forced to enter the shop and maybe inquire about that particular commodity and eventually buy it so the same role that these displays do at the shops is the same role that social media accounts of sports organizations are supposed to play they are gateways into the football clubs if the content within the social media is all about bantering then we are getting it wrong banter is right once in a while it is good but professionally if you keep on every now and then your content is about bantering then for me I will not be attracted to whatever you have because that's all you got it's just banter Simon Seppemulama over to you in terms of this banter I think we need them because we need them we need them FC Leopards playing against Gormahia we need the banter we need the excitement we need to get charged so that you guys should know we are not beating us we are telling you we are winning against you so let's meet at the field but does it have the effect that is desired are we sure that everyone who is on twitter and seeing the banter will be the same guys that attend the stadium that could be the problem you and I and then anyone else who goes to the stadium had not seen this maybe he doesn't have even a cell phone that can access that so if the banter is just the right way and we go beyond the twitter and meet those guys who cannot even access the internet and let's have this banter but it doesn't have to be physical I think it's good for the game because I challenge you if you think you're going to beat us then I'll be mocking you after the match during the match we had those back in the day we had those with Gormaia and FC Leopards recently it has risen when they play you will see banter so we need them to get us charged up and excited about the match but it has to have the right ending it has to reach the correct people to have the right effect so that the main aim should be to get you guys to the stadium cheering up the boys and paying the get fees so that the boys can get their allowances right their salaries right and the motivation and everything that goes with it finally, overally, Kenyan football new year, new expectations the national team to the this year's African Cup of Nations after 15 years of waiting the last time they featured there was in 2004 mechanisms that should be put in place in terms of preparedness to the relevant stakeholders especially those handling the national team if you have to get to African continental shop and sparkle handlers of the national team I think just the most important thing is to give the coach the support he needs if he wants friendlies then he must friendlies if he needs more time with the players try to find a way of accommodating that in the busy schedule that everyone has so that he can have the time that he needs with the players because the few times that we were at the cup of nations we had very few players who played outside Kenya now this time around we have a lot of players who played outside of the country and maybe recently when Franciski Maazi and Mignya came together is when we can see at least 2-3 local players starting in the starting lineup so the challenge is when we had players that had not crossed the borders to players professionals we got to the cup of nations and at least we won a match now that we have guys that have crossed the borders what legacy is every one of you guys as a player leaving the stage with because I'm not sure if Victor Onyama will play another cup of nations or another world cup if we don't make it to the 2022 so what legacy are you leaving behind having been that player that is more experienced than your predecessors who has been more exposed and now has the big stage to carry the flag and the name of our country the biggest challenge is to the players Harold there has been inconsistency in terms of selection players who would represent the country during continental and even international assignments and you know that has also drew huge attention and a lot of criticism from football quarters getting into this showpiece which is later for a few months from now as we speak do you think Sebastian Minye the Frenchman should stick to the squad that has conquered in qualification beating Ethiopia and beating black stars of Ghana of course a majority of the players who have featured in the qualifiers of the Africa cup of nations I expect most of them to board the plane and turn up for Kenya in the Africa cup of nations but one of the reasons why we have inconsistency at the national team is because we don't have consistency at the leadership level okay today we have this coach tomorrow we have another coach so each coach has his own tactics he is going to look for his own players whom he believes will be able to fulfill whatever he wants in his tactical program secondly also we have some players who have had injuries of late you can see Kalaba has not been featured in because he has been having injury even David Checho Wino yes the players also themselves some of them are not having consistency at the club level they are not playing regularly so by the time they come into the national team you find the form level is not as where you expect so you find another player who has been having consistency at his club level will definitely perform better in training and hence will get a nod at the starting line up that's not to say there are times that a coach may overlook the form of a player and pick a player because of his experience for example if for example Victor Anyam has not been featuring regularly at Totenham Hotspur so by the time you call him to the national team you cannot call him and then put him on the bench there's no point of calling him and talking about the same Victor Anyama is such an excellent player extremely talented he's conquered at Celtic at Southampton now at Spass but of late not getting regular football club if the situation continues like this and a few months to Avcon and of course he happens to be called of which he will be called definitely he's the captain for the national team and he's done much of the country should he get guaranteed over sport in the national team despite the fact that he's not getting regular club level from my perspective it is debatable from my perspective he may get guarantee over call up but he may not get a guarantee of starting I'm saying that because Victor Anyama's presence in the dressing room is very important whether he's playing or not a lot of players who are young in the national team they look up to him they look up to him for guidance and experience might be key even at some point we might even Denis Oleg has already come back into Kenyan football at some point we may need him at the national team not to play but because of his experience because of his exposure he may be able to guide these players off the pitch so that they can get the right performances on the pitch for example if the coach gives you a higher treatment at half time maybe has a thing or two against you somebody like Denis Oleg or Victor Anyama can come and try and convince you at this particular moment you did wrong that's why the coach was so hard at you next time try and do something different or do 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 so that the coach cannot be you see such kind of he can be that brother who puts an arm on your shoulder and convince you and see the point that the coach plays is important to have these experienced players within the school they form will determine whether they play or not because you might be injured and I call into the national team you are definitely going to play so why am I calling into the national team so that you can play a certain role with these young fellas into the national team I think it's important for him I think lastly before you went up I think it's important for Victor to be there it's important that he gets the fitness that he needs because the country needs him to be in that field because he comes with the attitude and you know you talk to any football person yes the fitness yes the ability it's because you have the ability that's why you're playing even in the club that you're playing but then the right attitude wins you matches and wins you championships Victor has been exposed enough he knows the right attitude to put in we really need him when the stakes are high and when we are at that big stage so no doubt we need him on that field and I hope that in the African couple nations he'll be the one to get us at least to the quarter finals thanks gentlemen for coming through fantastic discussion quality conversation it has been on the touchline for this particular afternoon 5th of January 2019 we are just talking about sports and of course two robust gentlemen joining me to put things into perspective local headlines in the country is concerned Simon Sepemulama International played for FC and Madara United and hopefully we shall be looking forward to a scenario where FC Leipards as well would recall him to solve their midfilling tribulations and Harold Negi prominently featured under Jacob Ghostemule at TASC FC and maybe when TASC starts struggling under Robert de Bullis Matano he can also be recalled now that Dennis the menace has set the pace it's been the touchline we still continue we just taking a 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