AFC Leopards youngster Maxwell Otieno has revealed his target for the upcoming Football Kenya Federation Premier League season.The youth team graduate is focusing on scoring at least seven goals in the new season to improve his tally in his maiden campaign where he scored twice, against Nairobi City Stars and against Bandari FC.AFC Leopards scored a beautiful goal against Bandari yesterday pic.twitter.com/9GsnlIAg0f— Ole Teya (@Kevin_teya) March 7, 2022 Amidst the turmoil to put together a team by Ingwe last season, the team turned to youth team players with Otieno being one of those promoted.”I am targeting seven goals and above so that I can improve on last season’s tally where I had only two. My focus is to add at least five more,” he said in a chat with the club’s media.The Youngster acknowledges that there was pressure to perform at the highest level last season, more so also owing to his experience in the league then.##NAJAVA_MECA_6757967##He went on to add that Ingwe’s Belgian tactician Patrick Aussems played a crucial role in taking away some of the pressure and helping the youngsters settle in by encouraging them to continue playing their own game.”There was pressure considering that AFC is a big club but as the season progressed and we played more matches we got better. At first, I was scared, the games were coming thick and fast and I was not experienced in the league but the coach advised that we just play our match the best way we know how,” he added. Meshack Ochieng: From class eight dropout to prestigious Mr America Bodybuilding ChampionOtieno, Bachelor of Science in Food Nutrition fourth-year student at Kenyatta University joined the Leopards’ senior team last year after impressing while turning for the youth team.He had joined the junior side late in 2018.
