Kenya: Gus Pulls the Plug On Nation’s Osano

Paul Redfern

17 July 2011

London — Brighton and Hove Albion manager Gus Poyet has decided not to sign up the Kenyan defender Curtis Osano after his trial period with the championship side came to an end at the weekend.

Poyet, a former Spurs and Chelsea player, who won the division one title with the ‘Seagulls’, as Brighton are known in England, said that Osano had impressed ruing his trial period but he had to choose between the Kenyan defender and Frenchman Romain Vincelot, and in the end the nod went to the former Dagenham and Redbridge player rather than Osano.

“He (Osano) was very close (to getting a contract),” Poyet told the Brighton Evening Argus newspaper.

“He did very well for us. It was just a matter of timing.”

Brighton’s decision means that Osano, who was chosen for the Harambee Stars squad last year, will be looking for another team as the forthcoming football season approaches in the UK.

Osano has already played for championship side Reading, as well as Aldershot Town and Rushden and Diamonds.

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