NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 7 – Police FC players took an apparent dig at their immediate former head coach Zdravko Logarusic as they thrashed Kakamega Homeboyz 3-0 at the Police Sacoo Stadium in an FKF Premier League fixture on Saturday.
As they celebrated each of their three goals, the players rhetorically pretended as though they walked holding a stick, a dig aimed at Logarusic who had called most of the senior players ‘old’.
It was a similar scenario to scenes in the English Premier League in 2014 when then Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho called striker Samuel Eto’o old, and the Cameroonian international responded by scoring a goal the next day and celebrating in similar manner.
A tiff had kicked off between Logarusic and the players just before their final match of the season against Tusker FC when the tactician had said he would clear out most of the players in the January transfer window as they were old and he needed fresh blood.
With Police FC’s backbone made up of majorly experienced players, it didn’t go down well with them and it brought a rift between them and ultimately, the Croat was asked to step aside from the team before their match against Tusker.
They went into that game without a head coach on the touchline as Logarusic had also caused a rift with his then assistant Salim Babu over his ‘long absence’ as he was away with the Kenya U18 team at the CECAFA Championships in Western Kenya.
Goalkeeper trainer Iddi Salim took charge of the team against Tusker, a game they lost 1-0 with a last minute goal.
And, in the match against Homeboyz, with Logarusic long gone, Babu was handed responsibility of the team and he did so in style, starting off his tenure with a well worked 3-0 victory.
Kenneth Muguna, one of the players earmarked for axing had a goal and an assist with Musa Mohamed and South Sudanese international Tito Okello netting the other.
Mohammed broke the deadlock in the second minute of the match, heading home from a Muguna freekick from the left.
Muguna then doubled Police’s lead in the second half with a volleyed finish from inside the box after keeper Faruk Shikhalo’s punch from a cross landed on his path.
Okello completed the rout for the ‘old’ Police men with a header off a cross from the left.
The victory saw Police move to eighth in the standings, while Homeboyz suffered a third successive defeat.
