As local-based players shift their attentions to the off-season holiday, Bidco United left back Thomas Wainaina is carefully drafting his irreducible minimums for the new season.The 2023-2024 Football Kenya Federation Premier League concludes this weekend with the Mozzart Bet Cup’s third-place playoff and the final being staged next weekend.##NAJAVA_MECA_8173378##While the majority of players could possibly be thinking about their holiday destinations and how to spend their time, Wainaina is thinking of how best he will secure his first Harambee Stars call-up.The overlapping defender has been fairly decent with Bidco this season but wasn’t considered by coach Engin Firat for friendly and competitive matches.He, however, believes that it will be difficult for the Stars head coach to turn a blind eye to the performance he intends to put in the new season.Ojunga disappointed with individual performance, eyes more in the new season”I already have my next season’s plans in place. Among the things I want to achieve is getting a call from the national team. I have been working hard for it, and I am not about to relent,” he said in an interview with Mozzart Sport. The defender also intends to inspire the Thika-based club to its first major silverware in the new season, which is expected to kick off in August.Bidco, who are four years old in the top flight, have never won a major cup, but Wainaina is certain that the team will deliver in the new campaign.The team clinched the Elite Pre-season Cup before the start of the term but couldn’t build on it to win one of the two major titles always on offer in a season.”Our ambitions have shot up as a team as we intend to bring glory to Thika next season. We have gathered the needed experience in the league and cup, and I believe we will bag one of the titles next campaign,” said the former Kakamega Homeboyz defender.Okola backs Mathare to win NSL championship ahead of Mara testWainaina, in the meantime, feels that the experience and exposure coach Anthony Akhulia has amassed will go a long way in their hunt for the title.Akhulia graduated with a CAF A coaching course license and was an assistant coach when the U18 team settled for silver in the CECAFA tournament held last year in Kisumu.He led the U20 team to a second-place finish in a Four Nations tournament staged in Malawi in March.Wainaina joined Bidco in August 2022 after parting ways with FC Talanta. He is a former Nzoia Sugar and Sofapaka defender.
