{"id":5077,"date":"2014-08-05T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T11:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=5077"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T11:36:18","slug":"bobby-williamson-to-take-over-as-stars-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/bobby-williamson-to-take-over-as-stars-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Williamson to take over as Stars coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/images\/two-bobbys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After several weeks of rumours, it has now been officially announced that Bobby Williamson will be the coach of Harambee stars.<\/p>\n<p>Musa Otieno the former long serving Harambee stars defender who is the new assistant coach. Simon Mulama, a former Harambee stars midfielder takes over as team manager.<\/p>\n<p>FKF Chairman Sam Nyamweya revealed that he was looking for a coach who understands local football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe needed a coach who understands our game and Bobby Williamson is that kind of a coach. He (Williamson) has been around for some time now having been at the helm of Gor Mahia and we hope with our support, he will be able to bring required results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe held fruitful discussions with his club Gor Mahia and we want him to start work immediately after he returns from Cecafa Kagame Cup where the league champions will represent Kenya.\u201d he told goal.com.<\/p>\n<p>Williamson had previously coached the Uganda Cranes and took them to the brink of qualifying for the Africa Nations cup. Musa Otieno was one of the most respected players in the South African PSL and previously had a brief stint as a Harambee stars assistant coach. More recently he was a TV analyst. Simon Mulama, once a very promising midfielder had a stint as Nakuru All stars coach. As a player, he played for Mathare United before leaving to play in Egypt and finally on a football scholarship in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>With Kenya out of the qualifiers, it is likely that Williamson&#8217;s task as Harambee stars coach will not be as demanding as it was with Zedekiah Otieno.\u00a0 And Kenya rarely enters Olympic qualifiers or All Africa games qualifiers which means Williamson will likely focus on the CECAFA senior challenge cup. One would hope that Gor Mahia officials struck a deal where FKF meets a significant portion of Williamson&#8217;s salary.<\/p>\n<p>It must also be pointed out that appointing a new technical bench will hardly change anything. Kenya football has deep structural problems that cannot be fixed with such cosmetic changes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/bobby-williamson-to-take-over-as-stars-coach\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several weeks of rumours, it has now been officially announced that Bobby Williamson will be the coach of Harambee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[151,152,72],"class_list":["post-5077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bobby-williamson","tag-gor-mahia-coach","tag-harambee-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}