Career
Club
Otieno has enjoyed an illustrious career on his native continent, playing for AFC Leopards and Tusker Football Club in Kenya, and from 1997 until 2011 for Santos in the South African Premier Soccer League. Otieno first came to the United States in 2008, playing a season on loan with the Cleveland City Stars in the USL Second Division. He made his debut for the Stars on July 4, 2008, as a 64th-minute substitute for Mark Schulte, and went on to make seven appearances, scoring one goal, and helping them to the USL2 title.
On December 15, 2008, following the conclusion Santos" domestic season, Otieno returned to the Cleveland City Stars to play in their debut season in the USL First Division in 2009.
Otieno retired in 2011 having made over 300 appearances and scoring more than 30 goals for Santos. International
Otieno is one of Kenya"s most successful and decorated football players, having made his national team debut for Kenya against Zaire in 1993 at the age of 19.
He captained The Harambee Stars numerous times. He has supposedly made 104 appearances for the Kenyan national team, but this has not been independently verified.
Former Harambee Stars captain Musa Otieno assumes his new role as national football team assistant coach on Thursday.
Otieno was on Monday named in the national team"s technical bench in the preparations for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Guinea Bissau. Otieno owns and operates a community outreach foundation in his home country, called the Musa Otieno Foundation.