| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Musa Otieno Ongao | ||
| Date of birth | December 29, 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Nairobi, Kenya | ||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Playing position | Defender/Defensive Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Bedjoss FC | |||
| Inter-Continental FC | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1992–1993 | AFC Leopards | 37 | (4) |
| 1994–1996 | Tusker FC | ||
| 1997–2011 | Santos | 311 | (34) |
| 2008 | → Cleveland City Stars (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1993–2009 | Kenya | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of April 30, 2009. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Musa Otieno (born December 29, 1973 in Nairobi) is a Kenyan former soccer player.
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Otieno has enjoyed an illustrious career on his native continent, playing for AFC Leopards and Tusker FC in Kenya, and since 1997 for Santos in the South African Premier Soccer League. He has made over 300 appearances and scored over 30 goals for the team, and helped them win the PSL Championship in 2001/02, the Bob Save Super Bowl in 2001, the BP Top 8 in 2002, and the ABSA Cup in 2003. He was named the South African Premier League Player of the Year in 2007.
Otieno first came to 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.[1]
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 has since 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,[2][3] but this has not been independently verified.
Former Harambee Stars captain Musa Otieno assumes his new role as national football team assistant coach on Thursday. Otieno was on Monday named in the national team's technical bench in the preparations for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea Bissau. [1]
Otieno owns and operates a community outreach foundation in his home country, called the Musa Otieno Foundation.[4]
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