Ex-Kenyan international Mutua assumes new role at Bandari

FKFPL side Bandari FC have named former Kenyan international Douglas Mutua as the club’s new team manager, Mozzart Sport can reveal.

The move, confirmed early Friday, comes on the heels of the coastal side making changes to the entire technical bench, one that on Tuesday 4 July this week, culminated in the dismissal of the respective members of staff.

The only remnant in the purge, as per close sources, was the team head coach Twahir Muhiddin, who at the end of the recently concluded season, acted in an interim capacity and was seemingly not up for the job.

However, at the end of June, Muhiddin was announced to take over at Bandari as the permanent head coach, with the management sourcing for a high-profile assistant coach.

With the Friday announcement then, one domino has fallen, and is expected to be the first of variable moves to fill up the bench for the team that finished sixth in the FKF Premier League last season.

Mutua is not alien to being around the football club however, as he was in January 2009, appointed as the team head coach in a move that saw him work with former Kenyan internationals Wycliffe Anyangu (Assistant head coach) and the duo of George ‘Fundi’ Onyango and Mohammed Nazir, who acted as Team trainer and Team Manager respectively.

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His stay at the helm of the club was however short-lived as the trio, in May of the same year, was booted out following a poor run of results - one that notably came in a 5-0 whitewashing from Tusker FC.

Mutua has also held managerial opportunities at Coast Stars - where he served as the team head coach - and his playing career ranges from being a Kenya Breweries (now Tusker FC), to featuring for Oman Dhofar Club.

Mutua was the first Kenyan to play professional football in the Middle East in the late 1980s to early ‘90s.