The Ulinzi Stars Courier
Squad7 Feb 2028
A fracture rules Clinton Omondi out for 97 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 ratings7 Feb 2028
Age has not caught Masita Masuta yet — 8.57
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.57 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Window shuts: 9 in, 1 out at Ulinzi Stars
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Graduation day at Ulinzi Stars
5 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Masita Masuta signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Masita Masuta and Ulinzi Stars agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A row about effort at Ulinzi Stars
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Boniface Muchiri was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Ulinzi Stars rebuffed over Geoffrey Onyango
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Kenya Police have kept their man, and Ulinzi Stars go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match5 Feb 2028
Ulinzi Stars find a way past Sofapaka
Sofapaka made Ulinzi Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Ulinzi Stars
Bonaventure Muchika and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Paul Odhiambo
- Market Jesse Mainge steps up from the Ulinzi Stars academy
- Market Samuel Mukangula steps up from the Ulinzi Stars academy