Gor Mahia legend Nahashon Oluoch “Lule” faults FKF
Gor Mahia and Harambee stars legend Nahashon Oluoch “Lule” who is aspiring to be the next FKF chairman has faulted the FKF for Kenya’s shoddy display against Zambia. According to “Lule” , a poor tactical approach and misplaced priorities doomed Kenya.
“What was the point in promising the team Sh1 million when it could have been put into the preparation,” Oluoch posed in response to FKF President Sam Nyamweya’s promise had Kenya beaten Zambia. “It also points to general malaise in the game. Poor priorities not helped by basic mistakes by the coaching staff,” Oluoch charged when he spoke to the Standard
Kenya only had a few days of preparation and did not play any friendlies. In stark contrast, the Zambians were in camp for several weeks.
Lule further faulted the technical approach deployed by coach Bobby Williamson which saw him deploy two defensive midfielders.
“The technical bench did not set up the team to win by having two defensive midfielders in Wanyama (Victor) and Okoth (Collins).
In the eyes of many observers, Harambee stars lucked creativity. Many have been wondering what happened to midfielders like Francis Kahata and Peter Opiyo who can add a creative dimension to the middle of the park.
“Lule” also questioned the rationale of fielding players who were clubless and hence lacked match fitness.
“Why on earth would the coaches load the team with players who obviously lacked match fitness having been clubless for a while?”
posed “Lule”.
The Zambian federation is run by Kalusha Bwalya who is a former player whereas the Kenyan federation is run by people who do not seem to have the slightest clue how to build a winning. This makes it imperative that FKF elects people who actually know how to create a winning culture.
Nahashon Oluoch was one of the stars of the Gor Mahia side that reached the Africa cup in 1979. At the time he was a secondary school student, yet he was voted one of the top 10 players in Africa and was a candidate for Africa player of the year. His most memorable event came at the CECAFA cup finals of 1980 when he scored the winner to enable Gor Mahia to beat arch rivals AFC Leopards 3-2 in the final. In 1982 he left for the USA to pursue a football scholarship. He was a member of the Alabama A&M Team that was ranked as the number one team in USA college soccer in 1984.To this day, Lule is considered the most talented forward ever to play for Gor Mahia.
He returned in 1989 and became a lecturer at Egerton University. He is also a businessman. He has been involved in football activities in Nakuru and was at one time trying to revive Nyanam FC which along with Abeingo FC was one of the top teams in Nakuru during the 1970s.
With his background, “Lule” would it seems would make an excellent federation chair. However the odds of beating Nyamweya are low. Despite his poor record, the delegates will likely vote for him again given that he puts money in their pocket. In essence, our culture of selfishness and greed is killing football.
Mzee lule please dont waste time contesting in that fkf elections the die is already cast instead just come back to gormahia n you stand a chance of getting post of secretary so as u can churn out players who can excel both in field n academics now that gormahia has become factory of players
I support the likes of Lule or Shollei taking over FKF. These formers players might give a direction that the likes of Nyamweya/Asembo cannot. But alot of Harambee stars success is tied to the KPL management cooperation. KPL is not realeasing the players in time. But again coaches like Bobby will get nowhere even if given 3 months. His ‘piga mbele’ approach cannot be classified as a team tactic. This style of play needs high skill in terms of passing accuracy. There is no Harambee stars player that can pass the ball accurately. Bobby should incorporate the Nuttal approach. But Nuttal is lucky coz he has precision in the form of Aucho, Nzigiemana and Sibomana. Harambee stars does not have such quality at this time. Wanyama is basically idealess as a midfielder, Timbe though a good player, is more concerned with his one man show than team tactics. Basically what we saw on Sunday was a team where everyone was trying to do his thing with some, like Wafula, bordered on the absurd. This only shows one thing, Bobby is not in charge of this team. Oliech and Mariga were picked coz of Musa Otieno’s influence… you wonder who else was giving Bobby orders.
Conclusion: Harambee stars should now pull out the this qualifiers coz it is a guarantee that the team is going nowhere. Olunga should use the Gor African championship matches to market himself and forget the Harambee stars ‘ME TOO’ adventures. Apart from Olunga, Wanga, Owino calabar ,Kasaya et Were(Tusker) I am not convinced there is any other player that has a winning mentality. Pick the rest of the team from Kenyan athletes maybe we can get somewhere. Most of these players simply stroll in the pitch, they themselves watching the match. I am still shocked that Oliech never touched the ball from the 36th minute to the 57th . How does a coach let this happen!! . These journey men professionals have been a let down to this country in that they have never pulled the Kenya from the bottom of the pit rankings.
To Olunga: That you can score a goal even in such a shambolic team that shud tell you alot. I think you have two options.
1. Go to S.Africa now join a team cheaply but concentrate on education.
2. Join the Gor Africa campaign and dangle for a much better offer. I think you shud go for this coz Gor can give a a better market than H.Stars, two you have the talent.
For Harambee Stars: Disband this team for the next 3 yrs and concentrate on Harambee stars under 17. We are being conned.
NB: If what Tanzania did with Nigeria is the future then I predict this will be the team to watch in future from E.Africa. It was Nil-Nil butTanzania has shown that they can not only play a co-ordinated game, they have the speed, the talent and the accuracy. That was one good beautiful game to watch.
I just loved how oliech was window shopping and how he got in that line up is a true testament of how corrupt kenya is.another waste was Noah Wafula man this guy must have slept on something the previous night.the katolo olum and mandela played at the back reminded me of my younger days.Kudos to Olunga who played alone.Timbe was good bt next time should leave all that for fashion show.VERDICT:Gor Mahia should be the national team awacho ayueyo.
Am worried about nothing with matters pertaining to H/STARS. We were beaten from the word GO.While the Zambians are professionally led by the legendary Kalusha Bwalya and opted for both simplicity and seriousness in this encounter with majority of local players who are basic in lifestyle and down to earth, the highly hyped and overrated Kenyans had a galaxy of fake egocentric professionals parading their MOHAWK hair style fashion at the expense of basic football technique. Then in come this ugly and bushy bearded and dumb coach in the name of BW, who is remotely controlled by Nyamweya and Asembo using their proxy Musa Otieno.
Where on earth or rather in this universe have i seen a national team which had first team line-up prepared even before assembling players for evaluation at the camp.Kenya failed on the basic football technique and tactics leave alone inadequate preparation and lack of playing time or rather fitness level for majority of the selected players.
In BW am 100% sure that H/STARS is going NOWHERE even if he has the team for a decade in the camp. Then add the FKF quacks namely Nyamweya , Asembo and their pathetic proxy Musa Otieno running the side-shows on the technical bench. This guys will select and field players simply based on media hype and favoritism, KPL/FKF politics and lastly new word in town namely the “overrate tag” of foreign professionals. I had Nyamweya chest-thumping that by FKF flying in some 16 zombies in the name professionals footballers was a justification of how serious and well prepared H/STARS had done to beat Zambians. This is STUPIDITY of the highest order. Arnold Origi of late has been leaking in goals and can not be compared to the initially assembled local keepers like Oluoch , Kasaya or even Ian Otieno. Even goalkeeper trainer OTTAMAX had no ample time to assess the dude who flew in and trained only once, with a defense that did future on the material day, What a joke from H/STARS TB. You wonder if to feature for H/STARS then you must either be playing for GOR MAHIA,AFC,TUSKER locally and if not then a “FOREIGN'” based ….. GOD FORBID. H/STARS SHOULD BID BYE-BYE TO AFCON & WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS or else get somebody who is independent in decision making to run the show. We will be surprised with how good some local talent available can push this nation in football ranking.
Being old is not a curse
Those people came to see oliech. Next time omit oliech n u will see a punch of crowd so people keep on abusing oliech n others
If strikers were not getting balls from defense how could u expect strilers to shine or even oliech to touch a ball . Lets learn to respect ageing
I am in Kenya and i have watched Kenyan football for many years. What I saw cannot be the work of a professional coach. There must have been pressure from some quarters to act in some way. Or was it the fear of the wrath of the fans after several mediocre performances in the past? Now just imagine we may never go finals of AFCON
For free, yesterdays match( ON THIS DAY, another day we could talk differently) would have been won by the following easily
Boniface Oluoch David Owino Dennis Odhiambo Harun Shakava Eugene Asike or David Ochieng
Johana Omolo Danson Kago Humphrey Mieno Michael Olunga Eric Johana(or Jesse Were OR Jacob Keli) Ayub Timbe —-BW please wake, don’t for names only.
I see some criticize Timbe eti fashion/show off.I ask did you see how the red Jerseys moved away from Timbe when he had the ball.Instead of playing one two with him up to the box and give a pass to Olunga/oliech or win a penalty they all avoid him like a plague
Lumping balls forward would slightly suit a tall player like Olunga not Oliech.The midfield did not give Oliech a chance to score or squander