{"id":145660,"date":"2026-07-03T15:03:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/shabana-fc-unveils-egyptian-ahmed-fathi-as-new-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T15:03:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T15:03:01","slug":"shabana-fc-unveils-egyptian-ahmed-fathi-as-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/shabana-fc-unveils-egyptian-ahmed-fathi-as-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Shabana FC unveils Egyptian, Ahmed Fathi as new head Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kisii-based Shabana FC has appointed Egyptian tactician Ahmed Fathi Abdalla Ibrahim as the club\u2019s new head coach ahead of the 2026\/2027 FKF Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p>Fathi, a CAF A Licence holder, previously served as the head coach of Ghanaian side Swedru All Blacks in the just-concluded season.<\/p>\n<p>The 40 year old Egyptian also served as a long-term assistant coach at Ismaily SC of Egypt and \u00a0El Bank El Ahly and takes over from Peter Okidi.  <\/p>\n<p>Fathi\u2019s unveilling took place on Friday at the Nyayo stadium alongside his assistant first assistant Hesbon Nyabinge and  Hatagekimana Corneille who is the new strength and Conditioning Coach.  <\/p>\n<p>Current Shabana assistant coach Andrea Ongwae, who holds a CAF Licence B, will serve as the 2nd assistant coach.   <\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeping coach David Juma will continue serving \u00a0in his role, while Elijah Sani retains his role as the Team Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Shabana FC finished 5th in the recently concluded Premier League season with 52 points.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/shabana-fc-unveils-egyptian-ahmed-fathi-as-new-head-coach\/\">Shabana FC unveils Egyptian, Ahmed Fathi as new head Coach<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kisii-based Shabana FC has appointed Egyptian tactician Ahmed Fathi Abdalla Ibrahim as the club\u2019s new head coach ahead of the 2026\/2027 FKF Premier League season. Fathi, a CAF A Licence holder, previously served as the head coach of Ghanaian side Swedru All Blacks in the just-concluded season. The 40 year old Egyptian also served as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}