The Ulinzi Stars Courier
Squad8 Feb 2027
Bonaventure Muchika damages knee ligaments — 84 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 84 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Enosh Ochieng out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ulinzi Stars will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Carl Karuuombe goes up and wins it — 7.70
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.70 for the rest of it.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Ulinzi Stars
4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Bidco United tell Ulinzi Stars: John Otieno is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Ulinzi Stars
Mercury Dlamini and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match6 Feb 2027
Ulinzi Stars find a way past Sofapaka
Sofapaka made Ulinzi Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Martin Karisa joins the Ulinzi Stars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Martin Karisa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Feb 2027
One of our own: Timothy Mulee joins the Ulinzi Stars first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Timothy Mulee is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Victor Omurwa joins the Ulinzi Stars first team
- Market David Omurwa steps up from the Ulinzi Stars academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Boniface Muchiri at his very best