Former Harambee Stars captain and assistant manager Musa Otieno is currently in Germany attending an international coach training symposium.
Attended the International Friendly between Germany’🇩🇪 vs Peru 🇵🇪 on Sunday at the 30,000-capacity WIRSOL Rhein-Neckar-Arena, Sinsheim in Germany with Hamisi Ogaya my KickOff to Hope Kenya academy coach.#GERPER
@mbfussball_en @DFB_Team_EN@moscakenya
@CSRashidEchesa pic.twitter.com/wtspehHIYw— Official Musa Otieno (@MusaOtienoOngao) September 10, 2018
Otieno has enjoyed an illustrious career playing for AFC Leopards and Tusker FC in Kenya, and from 1997 until 2011 for Santos in the South African Premier Soccer League. He helped them win the PSL title in 2001-02, the Bob Save Super Bowl in 2001, the BP Top 8in 2002, and the ABSA Cup in 2003.
Otieno played in the United States in 2008, playing a season on loan with the Cleveland City Stars in the USL Second Division.
He made his debut for the Stars on July 4, 2008, as a 64th-minute substitute for Mark Schulte, and went on to make seven appearances, scoring one goal, and helping them to the USL2 title.
On December 15, 2008, following the conclusion Santos’ domestic season, Otieno returned to the Cleveland City Stars to play in their debut season in the USL First Division in 2009.
Otieno is one of Kenya’s most successful and decorated footballers, having made his national team debut for Kenya against Zaire in 1993 at the age of 19. He captained The Harambee Stars numerous times.
He was also a member of the Kenyan 2004 African Nations Cup team, who finished in third place of their group in the first round of competition, thus failing to secure qualification for the quarter-finals.
He has supposedly made 104 appearances for the Kenyan national team, but this has not been independently verified.
Former Harambee Stars captain Musa Otieno assumed the role as national football team assistant coach on in 2012. Otieno was named in the national team’s technical bench in the preparations for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea Bissau.