Jacob Onyango

Central Midfielder - Retired
12 Dec 2026
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Marked for Jacob Onyango

10 Edition

The Mathare United Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 122% of everything Mathare United earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Douglas Mokaya 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Peter Oudu

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Peter Oudu has come out of that comparison in the side, and Mathare United have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Mathare United Sentinel

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Sep 2026

Herit Atariza 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 Mathare United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Musa Masika runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Peter Oudu in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

5 Edition

The Mathare United Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market31 Aug 2026

Dennis Mukoye hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mathare United can pretend not to have heard.

Match29 Aug 2026

The wait goes on for Mathare United

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market31 Aug 2026

Mathare United sign Edward Omondi Ondimo for $64.0K

The paperwork is done: Edward Omondi Ondimo joins from Kenya Police in a deal worth $64.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Herit Atariza 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 Mathare United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

Mathare United spend $64.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $64.0K for Edward Omondi Ondimo, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

John Macharia stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.78 on the card, and the Mathare United support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Jacob Onyango's mistake decides it

Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Mathare United needed to.

Match29 Aug 2026

Honours even between Mathare United and Gor Mahia

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Klinsman Omulanga

“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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Mathare United Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match15 Aug 2026

Mathare United let it slip despite Musa Masika

Musa Masika had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Bandari were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A brace, and Musa Masika takes the afternoon — 8.67

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Musa Masika provided it, and the 8.67 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Herit Atariza out for 17 days

The medical room confirms 17 days on the sidelines for Herit Atariza, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market17 Aug 2026

New Edubiase United watching Klinsman Omulanga

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mathare United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Mathare United

Douglas Mokaya was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Herit Atariza

“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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Honours even between Mathare United and Bandari

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Mathare United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jacob Onyango is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market17 Aug 2026

The shop window has Elli Asieche in it

Mathare United have let the market know Elli Asieche can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief