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Kisumu Day Form Four student makes history, awarded KPL player of the month

Football

By Standard Sports | Jan 30, 2020

**Kisumu Day student and Western Stima teenage striker Benson Omala after being awarded KPL Player of the Month for December.** [Washington Onyango, Standard]

Benson Omala, 17, won the LG Player of the Month Award for December to become the youngest player to lift the prize.

The Form Four Student was peerless in the Kenyan Premier League last December as he scored five goals that convinced SJAK Football Commission to unanimously give him the award.

Among the many firsts, he pulled in December, Omala becomes the first Western Stima player to ever score a hat trick in a league match.

In winning the player of the month award, he became the third player from Western Stima to do so in the award’s six-year history. Others before him were Kenneth Muguna in 2015 and Wesley Kemboi in 2016.

“I would love to thank my coach for believing and nurturing me. I paid back their trust by showing my brilliance and scoring goals which is a striker’s primary target,” he said.

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“I would like to score more goals. I want to be among the top scorers. My ambitions are to play for the national team. I already scored two goals for the Under 20 national team in Cecafa and I am glad I was called up in the senior team.”

“If you are in class, read like you will never play football. And if you are on the football pitch, play like you will never be in class. My target is to play two or three years in the local league then go to Europe,” he added.

His coach Andrew Aroka praised Western Stima for believing in Omala and giving him the chance to play in the big league. “I have handled a lot of you players but very few compare to this boy. They have been good in their own right but Omala is just a complete striker with huge potential,” he said.

Omala was in the Chapa Dimba na Safaricom All-Star team that went to Spain last year after emerging top scorer in Nyanza regional contest.

Kisumu Day High School Principal Daniel Mwaturo urged him not to sacrifice either academics or football career.