John Rupia

Striker - Kariobangi Sharks
8 Aug 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for John Rupia

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The Kariobangi Sharks Post

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Victor Ndinya out for 55 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kariobangi Sharks will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout

David Obasanjo says Kariobangi Sharks 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.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 6 in, 0 out at Kariobangi Sharks

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 6 arrived, 0 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Boardroom

The Kariobangi Sharks board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad

Tempers go at Kariobangi Sharks

Faiz Opande 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Kariobangi Sharks

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.

Market

Kariobangi Sharks promote John Rupia from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. John Rupia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: John Mwendwa joins the Kariobangi Sharks first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. John Mwendwa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Eric Chemelil joins the Kariobangi Sharks first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eric Chemelil is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief