Former Gor Mahia tactician Mark Harrison could be on his way back to Kenyan football, this time to run a start-up football academy known as Emerging Stars Football Academy.Kenya’s High Commissioner to the UK Manoah Esipisu on Tuesday posted a photo alongside the Englishman accompanying it with a caption that the tactician was returning to Kenya for a role at the Academy.Former Gor Mahia coach Mark Harrison is returning to Kenya to run a start-up soccer academy known as Emerging Stars, an initiative of Kenyan UK Pastor Boniface Mbugua with partnership by premiership side @SpursOfficial inching close. Adding to pool of talent for #WorldCup2026. pic.twitter.com/k5DNxyfvwB— Manoah Esipisu MBS (@MEsipisu) March 29, 2022 Emerging Stars Football Academy is a football academy with different age groups located at the St. Mary’s School in Westlands and is a brainchild of Talanta Bora, a Kenyan organization that aims to unlock and develop talent from an early age, with strong roots in UK.Harrison took over the Gor Mahia job in August last year as he came in to replace Manuel Vaz Pinto who had ditched the club in July for an assistant job in his home country of Portugal, and had been handed a two-year contract only to part ways with the club at the end of January, just six months into coaching the record Kenyan champions.After his unveiling, the coach outlined that his main priority was on producing a type of football that would excite the loyal fan base of the club with the end product being a keen focus to extend the rich number of titles at the club, managing to do that initially.#NewProfilePicWe are a Kenyan football academy that natures young players physically ,spiritually and mentally in the game of soccer ❤️⚽️ pic.twitter.com/h4OvtuO03g— Talanta Bora (@TalantaBora) February 9, 2022 At the academy, the Briton will have a better chance to instill such a philosophy having in mind that he will be dealing with extremely young players in their formative years.Players from the academy are set to head to the UK for friendlies against West Ham, Tottenham Hotspurs academies among others where they will be hosted by the Tottenham Hotspurs academy.
