Logarusic’s mouth-watering salary

Gor Mahia FC has awarded the team’s coach Zdravko Logarusic an 80 per cent pay hike to make him earn a whooping Sh500, 000. Mmmmh!

This is mouth-watering and it makes football coaching one of the well paying careers in the country. The coach’s salary before the rise, which came without him singing ‘haki yetu!’ or ‘solidarity forever!’ was Sh300,000.

Again if you look at it, the amount is yummy and beyond the reach of many professionals who break their backs each day from 8am to 5pm.

Some years back, most club coaches in the Kenya Premier League earned salaries that are not worth writing about.

Still, clubs could not even afford to pay the coaches, most who did coaching part-time, those peanuts.

Indeed, times have changed. The current ‘huge’ salaries can be attributed, to an extent, to enthusiastic fans who flock stadiums to support their teams.

But what Logarusic’s new salary, which is equivalent to what MPs and most CEOs of most blue chip companies earn, says is that Kenya’s football is coming of age and coaching is becoming a rewarding career.

Soon, the salaries of tacticians may reach the level of their counterparts in the English Premier League. If this happens, coaches, and players, will drive the best cars in town, own the best houses in the city and have a string of mistresses at their service.

Only then will football become a religion.  I can’t wait!