Nairobi City Stars captain Calvin Masawa has explained his role in the team’s quest for revival after starting the 2024/25 FKF Premier League season on a low note.City Stars are still without a win in their first three league matches having drawn their first match against Bidco United and losing their subsequent matches against Mara Sugar and AFC Leopards.Public outcry as Sports Ministry’s consultancy budget runs into millionsAs a captain and Mr. City Stars having been with the club for over a decade, the former Migori Youth defender says he has to keep the team grounded and make sure they work hard.“My role is just to push the team and encourage the younger players, who are a majority, that it is work, work, work,” said Masawa.With a wealth of experience to draw from, Masawa emphasized the importance of starting the league on a high even though it takes 34 matches to get a winner.“This is the top-tier league. It is a marathon but some runners have a strategy of starting on a high note and they keep the momentum to the end and so when you wait for them to tire, they will not,” he addedSimba wa Nairobi has conceded goals,that mostly and largely can be attributed to individual mistakes as was the case in their last match, against Kenyan giants AFC Leopards and the captain says that must now come to an end.##NAJAVA_MECA_8388782##”I will urge them and remind them that it is the top level, and schoolboy errors are not allowed,” he stated.In addition to their defensive deficiencies, the team has also found the back of the net just two times despite creating goal-scoring opportunities and the skipper is keen to address that during the long league recess.He continued, “We will work on mostly our forward line. Yes, we are conceding but we are also not scoring enough goals. If we had been scoring at least two goals per match, we would not have lost any match up to this point. We are going to work on both defense and offense.”##EDITORS_CHOICE##
