National Super League side Naivas have promoted Augustine Okoba to the rank of head coach ahead of the start of the new season.The club has been without a substantive head coach since August following the exit of Jeff Maina who threw in the towel citing personal reasons.Okoba had been serving as Maina’s assistant was fully bestowed the responsibility to lead the shoppers going forward after handling the team throughout the pre-season period.##NAJAVA_MECA_6786953##The club’s Secretary General Moses Kamau revealed that the management was satisfied and had faith with Okoba handling the team in the coming season.“We have shelved the plan to hire a new coach after our assistant demonstrated that he was the right man for the job. He has done well during the months he was in charge. He has our support and hopefully, he will lead the team to achieve the set targets for the new season,” he said.We played National Super League side Naivas FC in a friendly match this morning, winning 2-0. Here are both goals from the encounter. pic.twitter.com/2c4Sgzk90X— 🏆Tusker FC (@tusker_fc) October 5, 2022 Kamau also disclosed that the club had wrapped its transfer business by signing three players. He said the club abhorred wholesome changes unlike most of second tier clubs who have made it a norm to constitute a new team in each and every transfer window.“We retained nearly all the players who were with us last season. We only signed to beef the areas that the technical bench needed some beefing,” he revealed.New Sharks man eyes success on and off pitchHaving settled on the man who will lead the boys, Kamau lifted the lid on their ambitions for the new season. The administrator said it was the wish of the management to have the outfit to gain promotion to the top flight.“It is the dream of every other club to be playing in the top league and ours is not different at all. We have put everything in place so that we can get promoted,” he added.
