JAMES SIANG'A.

                  

In the whole world or Europe to be specific there are big goalkeepers who have proved what they can do in the field for instance Edwin Van Der Sar , David Seaman , Sepp Maier , Peter Shilton , Gianluigi Buffon , Peter Schmeichel and Dion Zoff just to name but a few are regarded to as the best stoppers that have ever stepped in a football pitch and proved thier worth both in thier clubs and also national teams and Kenya is just honoured to have produced one of the best goalkeepers back then James Aggrey Siang'a who was born in 1949 in Kenya.

Siang'a played in the local league for both luo union and Gor Mahia in the 1970's .Siang'a was also the Kenyan national team number 1 keeper and he played for the National team at the 1972 African Cup of Nations Finals at the international level. After Siang'as playing days came to an end his love for football didnot end as he decided to go for football coaching which he really made an impact in the teams that signed him.

First in 1999 Siang'a coached the Kenya National Team up to 2000 where he later moved to coach the Tanzania National Team in the year 2001. Not only had Siang'a coached the Kenya and Tanzania teams but also managed 2 Tanzanian teams that is Simba SC from 2001 to 2003 and Moro United from 2004 to 2005. While at Moro United in 2004 he was approached to manage th Kenya National Team for the 2nd time but he refused but that was not all as the still later in the same month the Tanzania National Team approached him to manage them but he also turned them down.Siang'a also also managed Express FC from 2003 to 2004 in Uganda , Mtibwa Sugar in 2007 in  Tanzania and in the end of his coaching career he was appointed in 2009 as the head coach of Kenyan team Gor Mahia.

James Siang'as amaizing career and talent did not go unrewarded as he ead Simba SC from Tanzania as their head coach to win the CECAFA CLUB'S CUP in 2002. Siang'a was also inducted in the Kenyan hall of fame where he wwas accompanied  by his wife and child to the event and he was happy and proud for his country to finally remember him for what he did in his career.

In 2016 a sad story hit Kenyans where it was reported that the Kenyan skipper and stopper passed away at Bungoma in a hospital on 9th September 2016 at the age of 67 after battling with diabetes. The FIFA president is among those who sent a tribute to the legend.