Former Super Eagles coach and striker, Samson Yebowei Siasia could become the next Nigerian to work in Kenya as a tactician, as he has applied to coach one of the East African country’s top clubs, Gor Mahia.
Sports247.ng can report that, several years after former Eagles captain and coach, Christian ‘Chairman’ Chukwu coached Kenya’s national team, Harmabee Stars, Siasia is now looking to work in the same country, this time at club level.
Siasia, who was part of Nigeria’s maiden World Cup team at USA ’94, has won Olympic Games soccer silver and bronze, 2008 and 2016, with his country’s under-23 teams, but now wants to coach outside the nation as well.
His previous clubs duties include stints with youth teams in America and Heartland of Owerri in 2009, but the 51-year-old Sia1 fancies his chances of becoming the next handler at Kenya’s only team to have ever won an African trophy.
However, Siasia is among several other coaches who have applied to take over at the record Kenyan champions, who brace for a CAF Champions League preliminary round first leg clash against Nyasa Bullets of Malawi at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani on Wednesday.
A total of 48 coaches are eyeing the post that fell vacant after the resignation of British gaffer, Dylan Kerr, who has since joined South African top-tier outfit Black Leopards.
Among Siasia’s rivals for the job appointment are Olivier Karekezi of Rwanda, Rui Nascimento of Portugal, Giovanni Petraglia of Italy, as well as Serbia’s trio of Goran Kopunovic, Dragon Popadic and Zlatko Krmpotic, who was formerly at TP Mazembe of DR Congo and Zesco United of Zambia.
Siasia also clinched the African Youth Championship with the Flying Eagles and went on to get silver at Holland 2005 FIFA U-20 World Cup among some of his coaching career highlights.
