Gor Mahia’s budding right back Paul Ochuoga has been showered heaps of praise by head coach Johnathan McKinstry after an impressive start to the 2022/2023 Football Kenya Federation Premier League campaign.The teenager was promoted to the senior team in March this year during the 2021/2022 season when K’Ogalo’s bench sought to have options in their defensive department following the departure of experienced Harun Shakava coupled with the team’s inability to sign new players in the window owing to the FIFA transfer embargo imposed on them.He has a family please, his friends and relatives were watching and we had dignitaries at Nyayo Stadium watching as well, sasa akivunjika itakuaje jamani Paul ukimkata hivyo? Defender Paul Ochuoga had a good game yesterday. 👏#Sirkal | #Betsafe pic.twitter.com/kWf5rPR7qN— GOR MAHIA FC (@OfficialGMFC) June 2, 2022 Since then, the player has thrusted himself into the starting eleven equation with a series of solid performances that have now caught the eye of newly appointed McKinstry who took over the team at the end of July ahead of the 2022/2023 season.”The young man Paul Ochuoga has been excellent since we started. At only 19 years, he has been having great games to prove his selection in the squad. He is definitely going to give worthy competition to the experienced Philemon Otieno which is good for us,” the head coach said.##NAJAVA_MECA_6911184##In all the four opening games of the season, Ochuoga has made it to the starting eleven with Otieno, who is the team captain, forced to slot in the left back position at the time when left back Geoffrey Ochieng was injured.In an earlier interview, the Lavington Secondary School alumnus who joined the Gor Mahia Youth team last year after he was scouted while playing at the grassroot level in Kibera, revealed he intends to make good use of the K’Ogalo platform and market himself to European clubs that have and continue to shop in the Kenyan market.”I want to take advantage of the platform provided by the club and showcase my talent out there. I think a full season will be enough for me to market myself. It is my prayer to have the league matches televised for the sake of our careers and fans,” he stated.
