Different Kenyan coaches, same poor results

Kenya has had a record 18 national team coaches between 2002 and 2016 with little or no success to show for it. Among them, Jacob Mulee was the most successful winning the regional senior challenge cup and helping the team to make it to the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Tunisia. That was the last time the team has been able to qualify for Africa's most prestigious competition.

Mulee just like Okumbi was thrust into the hot seat with after the late Reinhardt Fabisch was fired. Unlike Okumbi, Mulee had the unviable experience of having won the Kenyan Premier League with Tusker and not just once. He had also worked in Rwanda handling top side APR. Not forgetting the fact that he had also won the regional club championships with the brewers something that gave him a big pedigree going into the Stars job. Unable to maintain his previous success, Mulee was shown the door paving way for Twahir Muhiddin who stayed for only one year.

After Muhiddin, legend Mohammed Kheri took over […………………] agers saw Kimanzi shown the door without finishing his project. In came Antoine Hey who as expected messed up Kenya's campaign which came to naught. After Hey, Muhiddin returned for another stint before paving the way for Jacob Mulee to serve in his third stint. It was an unsuccessful stint once again and Francis Kimanzi was recalled.

The bad luck of returning coaches was also was with Kimanzi who was unsuccessful and he had to give way to Henri Michel. He was the highest paid coach with a salary of Sh5.5 million but he did not last more than six months as he gave way to James Nandwa. Nandwa helped the team reach the final of the Senior Challenge Cup and lost to Uganda. He was relegated to the assistant role after Adel Amrouche was hired.

Amrouche's only success was winning the 2013 Regional Senior Challenge Cup but he fell in trouble with CAF and was suspended for one year. Unable to work, his place was taken over by Bobby Williamson who was sacked at the beginning of this year.

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