How Kenyan football fans received appointment of Harambee Stars’ new coach
Kenyan football fans have received news of the appointment of Frenchman Sebastien Migne as Harambee Stars coach with a mixture of indifference and skepticism.
The Frenchman replaces Belgian Paul Put and according to Football Kenya Federation (FKF) president Nick Mwendwa, has been tasked with spearheading Kenya’s qualification campaign to the 2020 Olympics in Japan and the 2021 Africa Nations Cup in Guinea.
The former Republic of Congo coach’s immediate task however, is to ensure the national team’s qualification to the 2019 Africa Nations Cup in Cameroon, as well as retain the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup slated for Kenya later this year.
The new coach on his part said his immediate priority is to understand the pool of players he will be coaching.
“I want to understand the quality of players we have locally. Kenya has potential and I don’t understand why the country hasn’t qualified for major tournaments but that’s a challenge to me and the FA,” said Migne.
‘UNEXCITED’
Born in La Roche sur Yon in Western France, Migne’s playing career included a stint with two-time Africa Cup of Nations winning coach Herve Renard at Lens.
He thereafter had a seven year spell as assistant coach to Claude Le Roy when the 70-year-old was in charge of Togo, Congo, DR Congo, Syria and Oman.
Migne won one match in seven outings at the helm of Congo – a 2-0 victory over Guinea Bissau – before resigning last month, halfway through his two year contract, citing poor working conditions.
However, on social media a majority of Kenyans appeared ‘unexcited’ by Migne’s appointment.
“Harambee Stars”We have lost track of this many coaches with fancy names that come to coach the National team and barely last 3months. we would care less even if the coach was Artur Margaryan what we need are positive results by first qualifying to the AFCON
— Robert Okatch (@robertomondi78) May 3, 2018
What is Kenya’s fascination with wazungu coaches for Harambee stars?
??— Food Ninja (@shobanes) May 3, 2018
Harambee Stars will continue Hiring & Firing Coaches bcoz we aren’t addressing real issues. The problem facing Kenyan football is the ROT in FKF under Nick Mwendwa. We demand complete overhaul of FKF & the new coach Sebastian Migne to be well-funded and given his space to perform
— Atanas (@atanasi_) May 3, 2018
Can the new harambee stars coach lead us to the Reinhardt days. Only time will tell
— AMARU DEVAS (@amaru_devas) May 3, 2018
“Harambee Stars” lacks young and well trained footballers ,same old folks have proved to Kenyans that they can never win any match @kenya_fkf and @moscakenya should address this instead of firing and hiring coaches
— Leonidas carls? (@leonidas_carls) May 3, 2018
The incompetent Nick Mwendwa must get out of the helm of Football affairs, For our Harambee Stars to at least Prosper.
-No New ideas
-No strategies
-No Talent search
-Always yapping and ranting
-Full of Politics than Football progressive policies.
— Julius Mmasi ?? (@JuliusMmasi) May 3, 2018
Even if we appoint sir Alex fugerson or arsene wenger,harambee stars can’t win any major trophy.Problem is at top management
— Oscar pentium (@Oscarpentium) May 3, 2018
“Harambee Stars” failure is just a symptom of lack of investment in sports. GoK doesn’t see the value of sports as an industry, unifier or even a tool to promote brand ?? . The whole ecosystem of producing players for the national team is clogged. From div 1 to the Premier
— kijana na kazi (@NaKijana) May 3, 2018