The Ulinzi Stars Courier
The dugout11 Dec 2028
Shannel Makwata says Ulinzi Stars went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Kevin Omondi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Omondi and Ulinzi Stars agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Alvin Mangeni in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Ulinzi Stars this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Boniface Muchiri falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad11 Dec 2028
7 new faces, and Ulinzi Stars are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
Leonlevitt Osiago gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Leonlevitt Osiago is on it.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
Kevin Omondi knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kevin Omondi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout11 Dec 2028
The manager makes an example of Javan Omondi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match11 Dec 2028
Continental football is in reach for Ulinzi Stars
51 points from position 6. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Ulinzi Stars has picked up the phone to Amitesh Krishna
- Market The Clinton Omondi story refuses to die
- Boardroom The Ulinzi Stars board put their names to it