National Super League side Kibera Black Stars have elected to promote their assistant tactician Evans Ogutu to the rank of head coach ahead of the start of the new season.Kibera have been without an head coach for the last two months following Paul Ogai’s exit. The latter left Kibera, an outfit he had joined in February for the 2009 Kenyan champions Sofapaka.Earlier on, the club had attracted more than half a dozen applications from tacticians who were eyeing to succeed Ogai but according to the club’s Secretary General Daniel Magara, the plans of hiring a new gaffer have been shelved.##NAJAVA_MECA_6745657##Among the coaches who had been linked to the vacant coaching job at Kibera include former Tusker and Bandari assistant coach George Owoko but Mozzart Sport understands that negotiations between him and the club did not bear fruit.The administrator confirmed that Ogutu, a CAF D coaching course license holder who had been serving as an assistant for two seasons had been handed the head coach role on a season-long deal.”Ogutu will handle the team going forward. He has been with us for two seasons meaning that he understands our values and ambitions,” he said.Meanwhile, Magara revealed that the promotion hopeful is looking to sign at least twelve players in the ongoing transfer window.Kenyan midfielder trains with Chelsea ahead of Manchester United clashHe defended the decision of bringing in almost a new team saying that they had lost a total of fourteen players in the past window to deep-pocketed opponents.”We will conduct trials soon with an eye of signing new players who will fill in the gaps we have in our team. We lost more than ten players and we can’t risk to start the season without replacing them on time so that the new ones can blend in,” he added.
