Michael Kamure
Kamure in 2013
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 26 September 1973 | ||
| Place of birth | Kitale, Kenya | ||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Unattached | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1990 | Kenyatta youth | ||
| 1990–1993 | Nairobi youth | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1997 | Kenyatta Hospital | ||
| 1998–2006 | NSSF | ||
| 2007–2009 | Trust Bank | 38 | (4) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009–2010 | Kenyatta Hospital | ||
| 2011–2013 | Ligi Ndogo | ||
| 2013– | Nairobi Stima (assistant) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Michael "Azeu" Kamure (born 26 September 1973) is a Kenyan football manager and former player, who was most recently the head coach of FKF Premier League side Nairobi Stima.
Michael Kamure started as a youth player at the age of ten years at Kenyatta youth team.In 1990, he was selected to join the Nairobi youth team and his talent got him shortlisted to the team that represented the country in the prestigious Aberdeen international football festival in Scotland at the age of 16 where the team finished third. After completing his studies, he moved to the Kenyatta Hospital football team where he teamed up in the midfield with former A.F.C. Leopards assistant coach Nicholas Muyoti and Ulinzi Stars central defender Mulinge Ndeto. He moved to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and then to Trust Bank. His enthusiasm for player organization took over and he stepped onto the coaching path.
Kamure started his coaching career as an assistant at his former Kenyatta Hospital side before moving back to KEMRI. In May 2011, Ligi Ndogo Academy director Ibrahim Mbikalo gave in a strong recommendation for him to be signed on by the club as their head coach.
A holder of several coaching certificates from the Dutch KNVB Academy, Kamure's first match in charge of Ligi Ndogo ended in a 3-2 Nationwide League win over Iron Strikers on 19 May 2011. He led his team to a second-place finish in the 2011 season managing to set a club record of going the whole of second leg unbeaten and the team's best ever finish in the league.Its with this performance that saw several of the squad members scouted by several premier league sidea namely Tusker,Sofapaka and Muhoroni.In 2012,with a depleted squad,Kamure managed a sixth-place finish with 15 wins in 37 games in the league. He guided the team to five more wins the following season before leaving the club on 1 September 2013.
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