Fast-rising Mathare United goalkeeper Bernard Jairo reckons that getting some playing time ahead of the experienced Adisa Omar and Brian Olang’o is an indication that, his career is on upward trajectory.Jairo has so far played five league matches for the slum boys in his debut season in the top flight.##NAJAVA_MECA_7190513##Signed from the Kariobangi Sharks Youth team before the season began, Jairo could not accurately guess that he will be called upon to man the sticks in competitive league matches given the seniority of Olang’o and Mustapha Oduor who was attached to the team by then.However, the 20-year old has managed to taste action in the top division with his latest involvement being in the team’s 3-0 loss to Nzoia Sugar last week.Parliament promises to criminalize match-fixing after meeting FKFThe goalkeeper who is a younger brother to FC Talanta winger Michael Jairo says the exposure he is getting in his first season shows that he is on course to achieve his dream of becoming a professional footballer.“I didn’t imagine that I will get playing time in my first season in the top flight. My plan was to learn from my seniors through watching but somehow, the technical bench believe that I have something to offer in competitive matches. It clearly means that I am doing some things right. I hope to improve more,” he said.Jairo, who joined Mathare after impressing in the trials featured for Dandora Love in the National Super League in the past term before returning to the Sharks junior side.Fourteen Kenyans set to sit for the FIFA football agent examsMeanwhile, the glove man is confident that Mathare will evade relegation.The 2008 league champions are hanging dangerously above the red line but, there is still time to move to a safer rank given that, there are ten rounds remaining.“We will certainly evade the drop. We only need to right the few wrings that have cost us in the recent matches. If we sharpen the forward line and fix the loopholes in the defence then, we will make it,” he added.
