Newly-appointed Mathare United head coach John Kamau is impressed with the attitude and the renewed resolve by the playing unit to fight for the top flight status which is under threat. The 2008 league champions turned to the services of Kamau last week in a bid to fill in the void left by Ezekiel Akwana who called it a day citing lack of motivation emanating from financial constraint.The former national U20 head coach who has trained the team for two days lauded the players for heeding his call to show up in training and plot on how they will unhook themselves from the jaws of relegation.🚨 | John Kamau joins Mathare United We are delighted to announce the appointment of John Kamau as head coach until the end of the season.Read: https://t.co/eDgtl9MJ3x#KaribuKamau #GreatnessWithin pic.twitter.com/B0F5FvsGz6— Mathare United FC (@MathareUtd) January 31, 2022 His predecessor, Akwana was on record lamenting on the difficulties he faced in raising quorum in training and thus couldn’t prepare adequately for league matches.Kamau who served as an assistant to Francis Kimanzi at Wazito before they were shown the door two weeks ago revealed that sixteen players turned up for training in his first day at the Goan Institute grounds and had managed to convince all players to show up on Wednesday.Mkufunzi wa Mathare United Ezekiel Akwana amejiuzulu wadhifa wake kutokana na msururu wa matokeo mabaya. Francis Xavier ameteuliwa kuwa mkufunzi wa muda Mathare United.#FKFPremierLeague pic.twitter.com/zS98tFyI8J— Mozzart Bet Kenya (@mozzartbetkenya) January 21, 2022 “I am really happy with the reception from everyone and more especially by the players who have shown the right attitude. It is encouraging to see all report for training which gives me the opportunity to assess them all and see how I can use them to turn the club’s fortunes around,” he said.Asked on the chances of guiding the club to cheat relegation, the former Thika United gaffer said he was sure of achieving the set target. Kamau helped Posta Rangers remain in top flight football in 2019 after switching off Nairobi Stima in the promotion/relegation playoff.Experienced Kago backs struggling Mathare to turn around recent poor form“We are in dire need of points and if we embrace team work we will get off the red zone. I am equal to the task and if it were not so, I wouldn’t have taken up the job. We will fight until the final round,” said the former FC Talanta boss.