Gor Mahia head coach Carlo Manuel Vaz Pinto was on Tuesday named the Football Kenya Federation Premier League coach of the month of May.
Pinto was feted after guiding K'Ogalo to win four straight games in as many matches and earn the maximum 12 points.
" This award is not mine, its for my players and technical bench, its team work and we deserve this. When a coach wins an award it’s because all people have worked well. We put a lot of commitment and focus, as a team we put in the winning mentality, I told the players that first is to understand they are competing with themselves before taking the same mentality to opponents,” Pinto said after bagging the award on Tuesday at the team’s training grounds in Camp Toyoyo, Nairobi.
“We need to continue to achieve this type of performance, we can be champions, we have a chance, if we take a game at a time,” the Gor coach added.
The Portuguese best KCB and AFC Leopards counterparts Zedekiah 'Zico'Otieno and Patrick Aussems to bag the award.
Beside being awarded with a customized trophy, Pinto will walk away with Ksh 50,000.
He becomes the fifth FKFPL coach to be awarded this year after Zico( KCB), Francis Kimanzi( Wazito)Andre Cassa( Bandari) and Stanley Okumbi( Posta Rangers).
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