Veteran Kakamega Homeboyz goalkeeper David Juma is silently praying that the team will fight gallantly this season and send him off with the satisfaction of lifting a third Football Kenya Federation Premier League title and the first with the club. The soft spoken shot stopper is arguably the current longest serving player in the league having made his debut in 2003 with the defunct Kisumu Telkom. Other seasoned players who are on the verge of clocking two decades in the league are KCB shot stopper David Okello and Gor Mahia custodian Boniface Oluoch.##NAJAVA_MECA_5880695##Juma laid hands on the league crown twice during his two-year stay at Gor Mahia between 2013 and 2015 and is hoping that he will skipper Homeboyz to the podium this season before proceeding to hang his gloves.’Veterans’ Samuel Abawa Odhiambo (L) and David Juma exchange pleasantries before a past league match between Western Stima and Kakamega Homeboyz.#footke pic.twitter.com/1dGQDZv2h2— Footballers Of Our Time (@TransferMarktEA) October 7, 2021 The 37-year old revealed that he was planning to either retire at the end of the current campaign or next season should his body react positively to the training drills.”My exit from the stage will be sweeter if I will have a league winners medal dangling on my neck. I have won the league twice with Gor Mahia and I know the pride that comes with the fete. I am hoping that our plan will materialize this season as Homeboyz fans have been waiting for the league crown for quite some time now. If we will win the league then I will peacefully retire at the end of it. If my body will permit me I may also play next season, ” he said.With retirement on the horizon, Juma looks back to the past campaigns with utter pleasure of sharing the dressing room with some of the best goalkeepers the country has ever produced.🟡 | 53′ Umar Kasumba with a one on one chance David Juma with a super save to deny Bandari FC a second goalHomeboyz FC 1 Bandari FC 1#HomeboysVsBandari#FKFPL— FKF Premier League (@Officialfkfpl) August 8, 2021 He disclosed that he was an understudy to former Kenyan internationals Charles ‘Korea’ Omondi at Kisumu and rubbed shoulders with Noah Ayuko at Chemelil Sugar as well Rwandese custodian Ben Roberts Mandela at Western Stima.Juma faced off with Oluoch and Jerim Onyango who is the Harambee Stars goalkeepers’ trainer at Gor in the 2015 squad that is famed for winning the league unbeaten.”I have had the privilege of calling some of the best goalkeepers of yesteryears colleagues. In the five clubs I have played for, I have broken sweat for me to get playing time for I came up against the best,” he remarked.The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and in this regard, Juma said that he was grooming his three kids to follow his footsteps and reach to the heights he did not manage in his active years.Kutoka kushoto Godfrey Oputi, Eliud Emase, Saaid Alele, David Juma hawa ndio makipa wa Kakamega Homeboyz msimu huu Ligi Kuu nchini 🇰🇪. Hii ni ya mabingwa tu 🔥.#KakamegaHomeboyz @FcHomeboyz pic.twitter.com/AjeoNgW2Lf— Mozzart Bet Kenya (@mozzartbetkenya) December 30, 2020 ” I have two sons and a daughter who all love sports. I am grooming them to pick the best discipline and I am sure they will make me proud,” he added. Juma joined Telkom in 2003 after writing his examinations at Lions High School and would decamp to Chemelil after two seasons. He stayed in the sugar millers books for a season before returning to Kisumu town where he signed for the powermen. He spend eight seasons with Stima and only left when Gor called in late 2013.He left the record champions in 2015 for Homeboyz.##EDITORS_CHOICE##
