Successive KFF chairmen have a history of making lousy decisions on who should coach the national team that negatively impacting the national team.
Reinhard Fabisch has an excellent track record as a coach but
unfortunately has fallen foul of at least 3 KFF chairmen. Fabisch
has rightly fought for the rights of his players because he believes players
cannot perform well unless they are treated properly.
Back in 1988, then chairman Job Omino dismissed Fabisch after Fabisch had done an excellent job at the All Africa games. His replacement was Chris Makhoha, a coach who had no proven success record at any level aside from the secondary schools competition. The result was that the Harambee stars were humiliated at the Africa cup of nations losing 3-0 to both Nigeria and Egypt.
In 1992, then chairman Mathew Karauri dismissed Mohammed Kheri who had previously done a decent job. He replaced him with Gerry Saurer, whose appointment was based on his friendship with Mr Karauri and not on his tactical acumen. Saurer was really a Hotel manager masquarading as a football coach. The result was that Kenya was once again bundled out of the Africa nations cup, not to mention the player revolt that ensued.
In 1998, The KFF executive of Sam Nyamweya
and Peter Keneth dismissed Fabisch
only to replace him with yet another incompetent coach by the name of Abdul Majid. The result was the Kenya was ignomiously
bundled out of the Africa Cup qualifiers , failing to win a single game against
Madagascar, Zambia and Congo-DRC.
Now Maina Kariuki
is acting on a personal vendetta against Fabisch and
has chosen to dismiss him. His replacements, Jacob Mulei
and Tom Olaba have no proven record for coaching at
this level. This is another recipe for disaster, especially coming at a time
when kenya has not been at the continental event for
10 years and have been handed their best opportunity.
The time has come to chanege the
KFF constitution in order to avoid being held hostage by whomever is in charge
of the KFF. Big decisions such as who coaches the national team should be made
by a panel of officials rather than one.
Kenyan football fans have been subjected to one crashing
humiliation after another and its time to bring this to an end.
Fabisch did his best to point the stars in the right direction but was once again derailed by a myopic self seeking KFFchairman.