Barry Omondi Otieno[1] is the chief executive officer[2][3] and head of the secretariat at Football Kenya Federation.
Away from his professional career, Barry is a trained football coach who has handled, among others, Komarock Stars, Timber Wolves, Bistro FC, and Kayole Youth between 2002 and 2010.
In 2018, he scaled up to become the Communications and Marketing Manager, and in July 2019 he took over from Robert Muthomi as the chief executive officer[4] [5][6] initially on an interim basis.
At the beginning of 2021, Otieno was in the news for wrong reasons after being handed a six-months ban[7][8] by the Confederation of African Football from all football activities after allegedly tearing apart PCR test copies and reports for COVID-19[9][10] for Kenya's national team Harambee Stars during their Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against hosts Comoros in Moroni.
The Court of Arbitration in Sports (CAS), acting on an appeal from the Starlets team members, later ruled in Jun 2022 that Otieno 'acted beyond his authority'[12] in responding to a letter from CAF.